CMI-RewardBench - CMI-Pref Musicality: leaderboard

Metric: Pairwise accuracy (%) against the human musicality preference on the 500-pair CMI-Pref test split (clips from 23 music generators, balanced over text, text plus lyrics, text plus audio and all three conditions; three annotators re-labelled every test pair); the model is given the two clips (with the instruction) and must select the preferred one; the zero-shot audio LLMs are prompted to choose, the reward models compare their scalar scores; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 7 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Pro70#145
2Gemini 3 Pro65.8#77
3Gemini 2.5 Flash64.2#237

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #8 Claude Fable 5.1.

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