Neo-Classic - Line Matching: leaderboard

Couplet matching: select the other line of a couplet taken from a quatrain or regulated verse among four options, on a contemporary out-of-sample corpus of metrically verified classical Chinese poems by pseudonymous university poets, from Neo-Classic (Zhang et al., 2026). Accuracy in percent on a 100-question sample; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; select the matching line of a couplet drawn from a contemporary quatrain or regulated verse, four options; accuracy on a 100-question sample of the task, as reported in the paper's full results table (accuracy@IF); temperature 0.1, top-p 0.9). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around 2029. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3 Max67#401
2DeepSeek V3.264#403
3Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)57#111
4GPT-4o56.6#741
5Yi 1.5 34B Chat54#2513
6Gemini 2.5 Pro52#262

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=neo-classic-line-matching · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.