TAR-Bench - Binary QA: leaderboard

TAR-Bench (2026) evaluates vision-language models on 960 human-curated questions about 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips, zero-shot and without reasoning mode. The Binary QA task covers yes/no questions about the anomaly, one positive and one negative per clip. Score is accuracy, in percent; higher is better.

Metric: Accuracy (%; yes/no questions about the anomaly, one positive and one negative per clip; zero-shot in non-reasoning (direct-answer) mode through VLMEvalKit, mean of 3 runs, on TAR-Bench: 960 human-curated annotations for 80 held-out traffic-anomaly clips from 17 public YouTube videos). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Around October 2028. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Qwen 3.5 27B (Non-reasoning)72.5#359 (Qwen 3.5 27B)
2Qwen 3.5 9B (Non-reasoning)67.3#803 (Qwen 3.5 9B)
3Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct65#585
4Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview)64.4#94
5Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct59.6#981
6Gemma 4 31B (IT)56.5#342

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=tar-bench-binary-qa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-13.