Cedar - Text-Only - Swahili: leaderboard
Culturally grounded emotion understanding on Cedar's 1,166 Swahili text-only scenarios: choose which of 14 emotions Swahili-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 June 2028. 12 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-4o (2024-11-20) | 50.43 | #864 |
| 2 | Gemini 2.5 Flash (Thinking) | 46.49 | #452 (Gemini 2.5 Flash) |
| 3 | Gemma 3 27B (IT) | 43.11 | #1306 |
| 4 | Kimi K2 | 41.17 | #435 |
| 5 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 38.3 | #244 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking) | 38.08 | #451 |
| 7 | aya-101 | 30.38 | #4382 |
| 8 | Qwen 3 VL 8B (Thinking) | 18.24 | #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-text-only-swahili · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.