KOR-Bench - Cipher: leaderboard

Encrypting and decrypting with 25 modified classical ciphers whose rules and keys are given in the prompt, so it measures applying an unfamiliar cipher, not breaking one. Chat models, zero-shot. Higher is better. Source: arxiv.org/abs/2410.06526.

Metric: Accuracy (%; zero-shot, 250 questions). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 38 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1O1 Preview (2024-09-12)82.8#220
2O1 Mini (2024-09-12)79.6#414
3GPT-4o (2024-05-13)42.8#338
4Claude 3.5 Sonnet (20240620)33.2#309
5Llama 3.1 405B Instruct31.2#472
6Qwen 2.5 32B Instruct26.8#511
7Qwen 2.5 72B Instruct26.4#470
8GPT-4 Turbo23.2#419
9Mistral Large 2 (Jul)22.8#498
10Yi Large20.8#565
11Llama 3.1 70B Instruct20.4#570
12Llama 3 70B Instruct20.4#643
13DeepSeek V2.518#503
14Qwen 2.5 14B Instruct14.4#657
15Qwen 2 72B Instruct12.8#584

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #5 GPT-6 Astra, #6 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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