DistortBench - Color: leaderboard

Metric: Joint accuracy (%) on the five color distortions (diffusion, shift, quantization, saturation up and down), a category of DistortBench's 13,500 four-choice questions (27 distortion types at five KADID-10k calibrated severity levels on 100 KADIS-700k photos, no reference image), the answer naming both type and severity, answered-only accuracy (unparseable responses, at most 3.4 percent, leave the denominator), chance 25; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around May 2028. 18 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Qwen 3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)58.3
2Qwen 3.5 27B54.4
3Qwen 3.5 4B53.5
4Qwen 3.5 9B52.8
5Qwen 3.5 4B (Non-reasoning)52.1
6Gemma 3 27B51.1
7Qwen 3.5 35B A3B (Non-reasoning)51.1
8Gemma 3 12B50.8
9GPT-5.450
10Qwen 3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)47.6
11Qwen 3.5 35B A3B45
12Qwen 2 VL 7B36.3
13Gemma 3 4B26.4

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