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Benchmarks

Dataset NameSOTA MethodSort

Dataset NameSOTA methodMetricTrendResultsLast Updated

149.2CIDEr

26

Apr 2, 2026

nocaps standard (test)

124.8CIDEr

26

Feb 27, 2026

15.8COCO Score

25

May 19, 2026

Image Captioning

39.7BLEU-4

25

May 1, 2026

68.44Score

24

May 22, 2026

85.68Score

24

May 22, 2026

MS-COCO 1,000 images subset 2014 2017 (val)

0.722SentenceBERT Score

24

Feb 26, 2026

Sydney Captions

79.3BLEU-4

24

Feb 27, 2026

COCO 2017 (val)

LLaVA-v1.5-13B + Visual Lazy Attention

115.44CIDEr

24

Feb 26, 2026

COCO c5 references online (test)

82.9BLEU-1

24

Feb 26, 2026

MS-COCO Karpathy 2014 (test)

41.3BLEU-4

24

Feb 26, 2026

ICBench short captions (test)

80.13Fluency

23

Apr 7, 2026

107CIDEr

23

Feb 26, 2026

98.4Normalized CIDEr (%)

22

Jun 4, 2026

52.6Cs Score

22

Mar 25, 2026

0.597Tau-c

22

Mar 10, 2026

COCO 2017 (test)

1.16CIDEr

22

Feb 26, 2026

57.99OKVQA

22

Feb 26, 2026

MSCOCO (test server)

40.3BLEU-4 (c5)

22

Feb 27, 2026

52.5BLEU-4

21

Mar 11, 2026

Human Evaluation

1,148Score

21

Feb 26, 2026

MSCOCO (random sampling of 500 instances)

26.72CHAIRs

21

Feb 26, 2026

72.8CIDEr

21

Feb 26, 2026

Flickr30k (val)

62.3CIDEr

20

Jun 4, 2026

28.02BLEU@4

20

Apr 10, 2026

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