Cedar - Text-Only - English: leaderboard
Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 1,166 English text-only scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions English-speaking annotators assign, a label chosen because it differs across cultures for the same scenario. 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 2027. 17 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 61.79 | #244 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking) | 57.53 | #452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash) |
| 3 | Kimi K2 | 56.72 | #435 |
| 4 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking) | 55.15 | #451 |
| 5 | Gemma 3 27B (IT) | 53.91 | #1306 |
| 6 | GPT-4o (2024-11-20) | 53.69 | #864 |
| 7 | Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking) | 49.7 | #887 |
| 8 | Llama 3.2 11B Instruct | 43.04 | #5039 |
| 9 | Mistral Small 3.2 | 39.97 | #1592 |
| 10 | aya-101 | 33.45 | #4382 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=cedar-text-only-english · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.