VMetaphor-Bench - Meaning: leaderboard

Meaning in VMetaphor-Bench (Chen et al., 2026): one multiple-choice question per generated image on whether it conveys the intended metaphorical message, answered by a Qwen3.5-27B judge. Accuracy in percent; higher is better. Conceptual prompts, which state only the metaphorical idea.

Metric: MCQ accuracy (%; one question per image on the overall metaphorical message; the generated image is judged by Qwen3.5-27B on multiple-choice questions (four options including cannot be determined) built from each metaphor's structured annotation; 1,500 visual metaphors curated from real creative imagery; conceptual prompts that state only the metaphorical idea). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1Nano Banana 2 (Gemini 3.1 Flash Image Preview)98.5
2GPT Image 1.597.6
3Seedream 5.0 Lite96
4FLUX.2-dev92.1
5Qwen-Image-251290.5
6Z-Image-Turbo89.5
7Janus-Pro-7B89.1#7341
8Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large85.7
9FLUX.1-dev85.6
10BAGEL-7B-MoT84.2#5515

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