SQuAD 1.1 (EM): leaderboard

SQuAD 1.1 (Rajpurkar et al., 2016): extractive reading comprehension on Wikipedia passages, where every question is answerable by a span of the passage. This board is exact match, the share of answers matching a reference answer exactly, from the archived Papers With Code table of reported scores; higher is better.

Metric: EM. Source: huggingface.co. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 196 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1{ANNA} (single model)90.62
2LUKE (single model)90.2
3LUKE90.2
4XLNet (single model)89.9
5XLNET-123++ (single model)89.86
6XLNET-123+ (single model)89.71
7XLNET-123 (single model)89.65
8Unnamed submission by NMC88.91
9BERTSP (single model)88.91
10SpanBERT (single model)88.84

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=squad-1-1-em · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-05.