M-GATE - Round-Trip Translation (Hard Subset): leaderboard

Round-trip English-to-target-to-English translation of M-GATE's fixed 50-sentence hard subset across 29 target languages, scored for meaning preservation by a three-provider small-model judge panel (arXiv 2608.03803v1, Appendix Table J.4). Mean normalized judge score from 0 to 1; higher is better. The evaluated model performs both translation directions.

Metric: Mean normalized judge score over 29 target languages (0-1; hard subset). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 82 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-5.4 (High)0.82#83 (GPT-5.4)
2GPT-5.5 (High)0.82#33 (GPT-5.5)
3Claude Fable 50.81#20
4GPT-5.5 (Medium)0.81#33 (GPT-5.5)
5GPT-5.4 (Medium)0.8#83 (GPT-5.4)
6GPT-50.78#105
7Claude Opus 4.6 (Thinking)0.78#67 (Claude Opus 4.6)
8Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)0.77#64
9Gemini 3.5 Flash0.77#66
10Claude Opus 4.5 (Thinking)0.77#87 (Claude Opus 4.5)
11Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)0.77#66 (Gemini 3.5 Flash)
12GPT-5.4 Mini (High)0.77#228 (GPT-5.4 Mini)
13GPT-5.2 (High)0.76#115 (GPT-5.2)
14GPT-5.4 Mini (Medium)0.76#228 (GPT-5.4 Mini)
15Gemini 2.5 Pro0.75#159

No result here: #3 Claude Opus 5.5, #6 GPT-6 Astra, #7 GPT-6.1 Sol.

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