Neo-Classic - Word Cloze (Hard Distractors): leaderboard

Tonal cloze: restore a masked two-character word from four candidates whose part of speech and tone match the answer, 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 (%; restore a masked two-character word in a contemporary poem from four candidates whose part of speech and tone match the answer; 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 2031. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1DeepSeek V3.258.3#403
2Qwen 3 Max52#401
3GPT-4o50.2#741
4Gemini 2.5 Pro50#262
5Yi 1.5 34B Chat44#2513
6Gemini 3 Pro (Preview)42#111

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

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