ScienceQA
ScienceQA is the first large-scale multimodal science question answering benchmark with 21,208 multiple-choice questions covering 3 subjects (natural science, language science, social science), 26 topics, 127 categories, and 379 skills. The benchmark includes both text and image modalities, featuring detailed explanations and Chain-of-Thought reasoning to diagnose multi-hop reasoning ability.
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct from Microsoft currently leads the ScienceQA leaderboard with a score of 0.913 across 1 evaluated AI models.
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct leads with 91.3%.
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ScienceQA Leaderboard
| Context | Cost | License | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft | 4B | — | — |
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