TAR-Bench - Multiple-Choice QA with Explanation: leaderboard
Metric: Scaled BERTScore F1 (%; a multiple-choice answer with an explanation, compared with the reference; 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 2031. 11 models tracked.
Top models
| # | Model | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qwen 3.5 9B (Non-reasoning) | 70.2 |
| 2 | Qwen 3.5 27B (Non-reasoning) | 55.9 |
| 3 | Gemma 4 31B (IT) | 36.7 |
| 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (Preview) | 36.2 |
| 5 | Qwen 3 VL 8B Instruct | 32 |
| 6 | Qwen 3 VL 32B Instruct | 27.8 |
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