XHotpotQA (Gold Supporting Facts) - Exact Match: leaderboard

XHotpotQA (2026) tests cross-lingual multi-hop question answering in which the question, bridge evidence and answer evidence may be in different languages. A one-shot reader receives the annotated supporting sentences of 7,405 validation items and is scored by answer exact match in percent under the legacy Hotpot normalization; higher is better.

Metric: Answer exact match (%; one-shot reader given the question and the annotated supporting sentences of the audited V1 validation set, 7,405 mixed-language HotpotQA-derived items, legacy Hotpot answer normalization). Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Estimated already saturated. 11 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScoreOverall rank
1GPT-4o35.1#741
2Llama 3.1 405B Instruct33.76#1114
3GPT-4o Mini29.94#1627
4Gemma 2 27B (IT)28.51#1815
5aya-23-35B25.43#2669
6Qwen 2 72B Instruct24.94#1489
7Gemma 2 9B (IT)24.83#2275
8Llama 3.1 8B Instruct21.62#4277
9Qwen 2 7B Instruct19.67#3238
10aya-23-8B15.32#6778

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

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