Cedar - Multimodal - Chinese: leaderboard

Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 400 Chinese image-plus-narrative scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Chinese-speaking annotators assign, a label chosen because it differs across cultures for the same scene. Accuracy (%) at temperature 0, higher is better (Cedar, Dai et al., Hefei University of Technology, ACL 2026).

Metric: Accuracy (%). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2028. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Claude Sonnet 4.536.71#244
2Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)35.88#451
3Gemma 3 27B (IT)30#1306
4Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)29.32#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
5Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)27.66#887
6Mistral Small 3.226.92#1592
7GPT-4o (2024-11-20)26.01#864

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cedar-multimodal-chinese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.