LiT (Lost in Translation) - Pragmatic Inference: 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 speech acts and speaker intent; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around January 2027. 22 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Gemma 4 31B (IT)79.8
2Qwen 3.5 397B A17B78.4
3GLM-577.4
4Qwen 3.5 397B A17B (Non-reasoning)74
5Gemma 4 31B (IT) (Thinking)74
6Kimi K2 (Thinking)71.6
7GLM-4.767.8
8Qwen 3 235B A22B 2507 (Thinking)67.3
9DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Non-reasoning)63.9
10Qwen 3.5 35B A3B63.5
11Gemma 3 27B (IT)60.1
12GLM-5 (Non-reasoning)59.1
13DeepSeek V3.2 Exp (Thinking)58.7
14Kimi K257.4
15GPT-OSS-120B (High)56.2

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