Cedar - Multimodal - Swahili: leaderboard

Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 400 Swahili image-plus-narrative scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Swahili-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 February 2028. 10 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking)42.6#452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash)
2Gemma 3 27B (IT)40#1306
3GPT-4o (2024-11-20)39.37#864
4Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)33.42#451
5Claude Sonnet 4.532.15#244
6Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking)14.52#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-swahili · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.