LiT (Lost in Translation) - Core Semantics: leaderboard

Metric: MQM>=80 rate (%): share of round-trip translations whose back-translation to English scores at least 80 on an MQM error scale (minor -1, major -5, critical -25) from a Grok 4.1 Fast judge comparing it with the English source; each passage is translated serially through a four-language sequence and back, averaged over eight sequences (high, medium and low-resource languages); pragmatics passages on truth conditions and entailment; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 22 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Qwen 3.5 397B A17B81.2
2Gemma 4 31B (IT)78.1
3GLM-577.1
4Gemma 4 31B (IT) (Thinking)75.5
5GLM-4.772.4
6Qwen 3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning)71.9
7Kimi K2 (Thinking)70.6
8Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking)67.2
9DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Thinking)65.6
10Qwen 3.5 35B A3B63.5
11Kimi K260.9
12GLM-5 (Non-reasoning)60.9
13Gemma 3 27B (IT)60.4
14DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Non-reasoning)58.9
15MiniMax-M2.557.8

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