HCSU - Ink Manuscripts: leaderboard
The ink-manuscript (Tie) domain of HCSU (Tongji University, 2026): accuracy in percent at picking which of 8 candidate calligraphers wrote a character taken from an authentic brush manuscript, with one correct candidate and seven distractors. Chance is 12.5; higher is better.
Metric: Accuracy (%) on authentic ink-manuscript (Tie) character images, 8-way controlled candidate selection: identify which of 8 calligraphers (1 correct, 7 distractors, each with a style description and reference image) wrote a target character image, temperature 0.1; chance 12.5; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2028. 9 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GPT-5.2 | 33.84 | #176 |
| 2 | GPT-4o | 33.6 | #741 |
| 3 | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | 31.38 | #250 |
| 4 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | 27.14 | #266 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct | 26.4 | #522 |
| 6 | Qwen 2.5 VL 72B Instruct | 23.25 | #846 |
| 7 | Qwen 3 VL 30B A3B Instruct | 20.19 | #871 |
| 8 | Qwen 2.5 VL 7B Instruct | 19.23 | #1833 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=hcsu-ink-manuscripts · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.