MemeBench (Chinese): leaderboard

MemeBench (2026) asks vision-language models to explain 1,253 Chinese and English memes about anime, comics, games and online subcultures from the image alone, checked against VIKR checklists of visual clues, identity links, knowledge units and reasoning under two judges. This board is the success rate on the 768 Chinese memes, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Success rate (%) on the 768 Chinese memes of 1,253 Chinese and English memes centred on anime, comics, games and online subcultures, explained closed-book from the image; scored against VIKR checklists under the intersection of Gemini-3.1-Pro and GPT-5.1 judges, unscored responses counted as failures. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 26 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)49.9#94
2Gemini 3 Flash41.8#164
3GPT-5.6 Sol33.1#30
4Kimi K2.532.4#256
5Claude Opus 528.3#22
6Qwen 3.6 Plus25.5#222
7GPT-5.6 Terra22.3#62
8GPT-5.6 Luna15.5#121
9Claude Sonnet 512.2#111
10Qwen 3.6 Flash10.5#424
11Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B Instruct10.2#522
12MiMo-V2.59.9#354
13Qwen 3 VL 235B A22B (Thinking)9.6#451
14Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct5.9#585
15Qwen 3 VL 32B (Thinking)5.5#559

No result here: #1 Claude Fable 5.2, #2 Gemini 4 Carbon, #5 Claude Opus 5.5.

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=memebench-chinese · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.