CBX-Bench (Judge Alignment): leaderboard

CBX-Bench (Middle East Technical University, 2026) evaluates how well a multimodal LLM, used as a judge, recovers human preference rankings over concept-bottleneck-model explanations, validated against 2,700 human pairwise judgments. Alignment is the share of human pairwise preferences the judge recovers per image on the 1 to 9 score-sum scale, in percent, higher is better.

Metric: Ranking-recovery alignment (%; share of human pairwise CBM-explanation preferences recovered per image, over CBM-only strict-preference consensus items; 1-9 score-sum rating scale). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 5 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 9B63.3#803
2Qwen 3.5 4B53.9#1180
3Gemma 4 E4B48.5#2217
4Gemma 4 E2B45.5#4124

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cbx-bench-judge-alignment · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.