Benchmark Almanac

CFLUE Knowledge

Qwen-72B 72.8% tops its leaderboard Qwen-14B 53.8% leads the models we track
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Models answer Chinese financial qualification questions. The score is answer accuracy across the knowledge test.

One track of CFLUE. The CFLUE record keeps lab scores that combine tracks.

Released
May 2024
Kind
Finance
Level
University
Scored
Checked automatically
Answers
Multiple choice
Tasks
All public
Strongest model tested
Llama 2-70B #209 on the capability index
Last model added
November 2023
Scores refreshed
November 12th, 2026

In the authors’ words

In light of recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) that have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP), there is an urgent need for new benchmarks to keep pace with the fast development of LLMs. In this paper, we propose CFLUE, the Chinese Financial Language Understanding Evaluation benchmark, designed to assess the capability of LLMs across various dimensions. Specifically, CFLUE provides datasets tailored for both knowledge assessment and application assessment. In knowledge assessment, it consists of 38K+ multiple-choice questions with associated solution explanations. These questions serve dual purposes: answer prediction and question reasoning. In application assessment, CFLUE features 16K+ test instances across distinct groups of NLP tasks such as text classification, machine translation, relation extraction, reading comprehension, and text generation. Upon CFLUE, we conduct a thorough evaluation of representative LLMs. The results reveal that only GPT-4 and GPT-4-turbo achieve an accuracy exceeding 60% in answer prediction for knowledge assessment, suggesting that there is still substantial room for improvement in current LLMs. In application assessment, although GPT-4 and GPT-4-turbo are the top two performers, their considerable advantage over lightweight LLMs is noticeably diminished. The datasets and scripts associated with CFLUE are openly accessible at https://github.com/aliyun/cflue.

Abstract of Benchmarking Large Language Models on CFLUE – A Chinese Financial Language Understanding Evaluation Dataset (arXiv:2405.10542, CC0)
17
Entries on its own leaderboard, 8 models we track

Qwen-72B tops the leaderboard with 72.8%

Best score per entry from the benchmark's own leaderboard, read on November 12th, 2026. Where a model ran with several settings or harnesses, we keep its best. Names in gray aren't in our model list: fine-tunes, agent systems, products and older models. They don't count toward leaders. The best model we track is Qwen-14B, at 53.8%.

The newest model with a score here came out in November 2023, and nobody has tested a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Qwen-72B 72.8%
  2. 2 GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) 60.9%
  3. 3 GPT-4-turbo (snapshot unspecified) 60.6%
  4. 4 Qwen-14B 53.8%
  5. 5 Qwen-7B-sft 48.6%
  6. 6 Tongyi-Finance-14B 47.2%
  7. 7 Qwen-7B 43.6%
  8. 8 ChatGPT 43.4%
  9. 9 ChatGLM3-6B-sft 42.4%
  10. 10 Baichuan2-13B 41.5%
  11. 11 ChatGLM3-6B 40.8%
  12. 12 Qwen-1_8B 38.7%
  13. 13 Baichuan 2-7B 32.3%
  14. 14 Vicuna_v1.5 31.1%
  15. 15 LLaMA2-7B-sft 27.1%
  16. 16 Llama 2-7B 18.8%
  17. 17 Llama 2-70B 17.7%

Source: Official CFLUE Knowledge leaderboard

#EntryScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen-72B 72.8% Official leaderboard
2 GPT-4 (snapshot unspecified) 60.9% Official leaderboard
3 GPT-4-turbo (snapshot unspecified) 60.6% Official leaderboard
4 Qwen-14B 53.8% Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
5 Qwen-7B-sft 48.6% Official leaderboard
6 Tongyi-Finance-14B 47.2% Official leaderboard
7 Qwen-7B 43.6% Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
8 ChatGPT 43.4% Official leaderboard
9 ChatGLM3-6B-sft 42.4% Official leaderboard
10 Baichuan2-13B 41.5% Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
11 ChatGLM3-6B 40.8% Oct 2023 Official leaderboard
12 Qwen-1_8B 38.7% Nov 2023 Official leaderboard
13 Baichuan 2-7B 32.3% Sep 2023 Official leaderboard
14 Vicuna_v1.5 31.1% Official leaderboard
15 LLaMA2-7B-sft 27.1% Official leaderboard
16 Llama 2-7B 18.8% Jul 2023 Official leaderboard
17 Llama 2-70B 17.7% Jul 2023 Official leaderboard

Number one over time

Lab claims count from the day the card came out, independent runs from the model’s release.

Qwen
Own leaderboard Not tested since May 2024
Qwen-14B 53.8%

Source: Official CFLUE Knowledge leaderboard

Scores over time

All the scores we have, one dot each, so a model tested at several settings appears more than once.

On the benchmark’s own leaderboard Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen-14B Baichuan2-13B Llama 2-7B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen-14B Baichuan2-13B

Source: Official CFLUE Knowledge leaderboard

No lab model card reports it yet

We read the headline results of 522 launch posts from 52 labs, and none of them list this benchmark.

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