Cedar - Multimodal - Japanese: leaderboard

Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 400 Japanese image-plus-narrative scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Japanese-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 2029. 14 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)34.34#451
2Claude Sonnet 4.532.99#244
3GPT-4o (2024-11-20)32.5#864
4Gemma 3 27B (IT)30.46#1306
5Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)29.07#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
6Mistral Small 3.227.05#1592
7Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)26.39#887

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-japanese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.