VakQA: leaderboard

VākQA (Akkiraju et al., 2026) is a Telugu spoken factoid question-answering benchmark of 2,001 quiz-style questions across six domains with human-verified reference answers. Each answer is scored from 1 to 5 for correctness against the reference by Gemini-2.5-Flash as judge, and the board is the mean score; higher is better. Input: the human-verified Telugu transcription of each spoken question.

Metric: Judge score (1-5) (2,001 Telugu spoken factoid questions from quiz-style interactions across six domains, with human-verified reference answers; each answer scored 1 to 5 for correctness against the reference by Gemini-2.5-Flash as judge (the best-aligned judge in the human study); mean over the questions; oracle input: the human-verified Telugu transcription of each question). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Gemini 2.5 Flash3.63#452
2Gemma 3 27B2.55#1638
3Gemma 3 12B2.01#2013
4Sarvam M1.98#1954
5Gemma 3 4B1.43#5104
6Qwen 3 4B1.17#2297

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

Interactive version: theaggregate.ai/benchmark?slug=vakqa · How It Works · Data refreshed daily, snapshot 2026-11-12.