LiT (Lost in Translation) - Discourse Coherence: 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 referential chains and connectives; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 22 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1GLM-577.4
2Qwen 3.5 397B A17B75.6
3Gemma 4 31B (IT)75
4Gemma 4 31B (IT) (Thinking)74.4
5Kimi K2 (Thinking)70.8
6GLM-4.770.2
7Qwen 3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning)69.6
8Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking)66.7
9DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Thinking)61.9
10GLM-5 (Non-reasoning)60.7
11Qwen 3.5 35B A3B60.1
12DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Non-reasoning)57.1
13Kimi K255.6
14Gemma 3 27B (IT)55.4
15GPT-OSS-120B (High)54.8

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