See-or-Guess VQA - Subquestion-Guided: leaderboard

The subquestion-guided variant of See-or-Guess VQA (2026), a probe of how much vision-language models rely on textual priors: questions built from single-pass perceptual sub-questions, scored as accuracy in percent with the image, judged by Qwen3-14B. Higher is better.

Metric: Subquestion-Guided variant (built from single-pass perceptual sub-questions): accuracy (%) with the image over 540 images from 21 public benchmarks in six reasoning categories; Qwen3-14B judges answer equivalence (yes/no), lenient extraction of answers after a missing </think> tag. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around February 2027. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 9B56.8#803
2Qwen 3.5 397B A17B54.6#246
3Gemini 2.5 Pro53.3#266
4GPT-5 Mini49.4#348
5Claude Sonnet 4.647.8#161
6Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite41.8#364
7Phi-4 Multimodal Instruct22.6#3882

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=see-or-guess-vqa-subquestion-guided · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.