BTZSC: leaderboard

Zero-shot text classification benchmark for cross-encoders, embedding models, rerankers, and LLM classifiers.

Metric: Macro-F1 (%). Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 35 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Mistral Nemo Instruct (2407)66.97#936
2Qwen 3 8B66.49#674
3Qwen 3 4B64.86#829
4Qwen3-Embedding-8B59.13#685
5Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B57.97#802
6Phi-4 Mini Instruct43.09#1245
7Llama 3.2 3B Instruct43.02#1352
8Gemma 3 1B (IT)35.91#1504
9Gemma 3 270M (IT)27.94#1581

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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