Sens-VisualNews: leaderboard

Metric: Top-1 accuracy (%) on the test split of the full dataset (majority-vote labels of three annotators), zero-shot yes or no answer to whether the news image is sensational, greedy decoding, each model with the prompt and prompt format that scored best on the development split; balanced classes, chance 50; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 12 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1LLaVA-OneVision-1.5-8B87.6
2Qwen3-VL-8B87
3LLaVA-OneVision-1.5-4B86.7
4Qwen3-VL-2B86.3
5Qwen3-VL-4B85
6InternVL3.5-8B83.8
7InternVL3.5-4B83.4
8LLaVA-OneVision-7B81.5
9LLaVA-OneVision-0.5B81.3
10InternVL3.5-2B77.9

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=sens-visualnews · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-10-07.