Benchmark Almanac

Multilingual Exams

Qwen2.5-72B 78.7% leads since Sep 2024 Dropped

Models answer multilingual exam and MMLU-style questions. Qwen reports the average of M3Exam, IndoMMLU, ruMMLU, and translated MMLU.

A Qwen aggregate of public exam sets rather than a separate benchmark, and its parts changed between model releases.

Made by Qwen Released Feb 2024 Knowledge in many languages All tasks public Last in a launch post Sep 2024 , dropped before it saturated Last model added Sep 2024
Level
University Undergraduates and entry-level professionals
Scored
Checked automatically A program checks the result against an answer key, unit tests or the expected final state.
Answers
Multiple choice
3
Models scored in lab cards
3
Launch posts list it, from 1 lab

Qwen2.5-72B leads with 78.7% among models released by Sep 2024

Best score per model as labs report them in their own cards. Labs pick their own settings, so these compare less cleanly than independent runs.

The newest model with a score here came out in Sep 2024, and nobody has reported a newer one. Among the 20 highest-ranked models on the capability index, these have no score yet:

  1. 1 Qwen2.5-72B 78.7%
  2. 2 Qwen2-72B 76.6%
  3. 3 Qwen1.5-72B 66.3%
#ModelScoreSettingDateSource
1 Qwen2.5-72B 78.7% Sep 2024 Model card
2 Qwen2-72B 76.6% Jun 2024 Model card
3 Qwen1.5-72B 66.3% Feb 2024 Model card

3 models have held number one since its release in Feb 2024

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

Qwen
Lab claims Not tested since Sep 2024
Qwen2.5-72B 78.7%

Scores over time

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

Reported by the lab in its model card Best so far
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen2.5-72B Qwen2-72B Qwen1.5-72B 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 2024 Near the ceiling (85%) Qwen2.5-72B Qwen1.5-72B

No launch post has listed it since Sep 2024

Launch posts from every lab that has listed it, one tick per post. Tall colored ticks include it, and short gray ones leave it out.

Qwen
DateLaunch postScoreAs the post writes it
19 Sep 2024 Qwen2.5-72B 78.7 Multi-Exam
7 Jun 2024 Qwen2-72B 76.6 Mulit-Exam
5 Feb 2024 Qwen1.5-72B 66.3 Multilingual Exams (MMLU-multi, M3Exams)

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