JANUS - Emphasis: leaderboard
The emphasis dimension of JANUS (2026): how much more text a goal-conditioned summary spends on favorable than on adverse true facts, relative to the neutral summary, from -2 to 2. Each score is the goal-conditioned minus the neutral response for the same facts; zero means no distortion and lower is better.
Metric: Emphasis distortion, signed from -2 to 2: change in the attention balance (favorable minus adverse fact tokens over their sum), paired distortion: the aspect score of the goal-conditioned response minus that of the neutral response for the same JANUS scenario (six true facts, three favorable and three adverse to an institutional objective, shown in the same order in both conditions), averaged over scenarios; facts are matched to sentences and framing is labelled by a Qwen3-8B judge with thinking disabled; zero-shot at provider or checkpoint default decoding; lower is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2031. 12 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score | Overall rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DeepSeek V4 Flash (Non-reasoning) | -0.03 | #258 (DeepSeek V4 Flash) |
| 2 | Qwen 3 32B | 0.01 | #960 |
| 3 | GPT-5.4 | 0.01 | #123 |
| 4 | GPT-5.4 Mini | 0.02 | #389 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 8B | 0.04 | #1830 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 32B (Non-reasoning) | 0.06 | #960 (Qwen 3 32B) |
| 7 | Qwen 3 14B (Non-reasoning) | 0.07 | #1233 (Qwen 3 14B) |
| 8 | Qwen 3 8B (Non-reasoning) | 0.08 | #1830 (Qwen 3 8B) |
| 9 | Qwen 3 14B | 0.11 | #1233 |
| 10 | Llama 3.1 8B Instruct | 0.15 | #4246 |
No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.
Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=janus-emphasis · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.