MSQA - Language Expression and Communication Arts: leaderboard

MSQA asks short culture-specific questions written by native speakers in their own language, each with one verifiable answer grounded in local sources. This board covers the questions about idioms, proverbs, dialect terms and other conventionalized expressions. Answers are free-form, judged for containing the gold answer, and scored as the harmonic mean of the correct share and the correct-given-attempted share, so both wrong answers and refusals cost points (ByteDance Seed, Nanjing University and M-A-P, 2026).

Metric: F-score (%; harmonic mean of CO, the share of fully correct answers, and CGA, the correct share of attempted answers, over the 220 questions of this cultural dimension; free-form answers to natively sourced culture-specific short questions asked in their own language, five runs per model, scored by a Gemini-3.1-Pro gold-answer containment judge). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 21 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)70.7#94
2GPT-5.560.7#49
3GPT-5.457.3#123
4Claude Opus 4.655.9#102
5Seed 2.1 Pro54.6#135
6DeepSeek V4 Pro54.1#188
7GPT-5.2 (High)52.5#176 (GPT-5.2)
8Claude Opus 4.749.2#79
9GLM-543.8#260
10Seed 2.0 Pro (High)43.6#211 (Seed 2.0 Pro)
11Gemini 2.5 Flash43.5#453
12Qwen 3.5 Plus (Thinking)41.8#232 (Qwen 3.5 Plus)
13Seed 2.0 Pro (Medium)41.3#211 (Seed 2.0 Pro)
14Kimi K2.640.9#178
15Kimi K2.539.9#256

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=msqa-language-expression-and-communication-arts · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.