Bio-VQA - OCR: leaderboard

Fine-grained biological visual QA covering taxonomy, traits, spatial reasoning and individual re-identification. Exact-match fraction. Bio-VQA v1 Table3 native headline columns,18 generalist checkpoints bound to Table13. Greedy decoding, no sampling/chain-of-thought/few-shot; one attempt per item, same prompts and scorer. Do not replace these Table3 measures with differently defined appendix headline metrics. Domain-specialist embedding baselines, Mean and Floor rows are not generic evaluated VLMs and are not admitted.

Metric: Exact-match fraction. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 18 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.98
2Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.92
3Qwen 2.5 VL 3B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.9
4Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.9
5Llama 3.2 11B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.72
6Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.71
7Molmo2-8B (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.69
8InternVL3.5-8B-Instruct (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.46
9Gemma 3 12B (IT) (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.35
10Gemma 4 12B (IT) (Benchmark Sweep Run: source=BioVQA; greedy; zero-shot; noCoT; single-attempt; exact Table13 checkpoint)0.35

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