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Image Classification · benchmark dataset · 2009 · EN

Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 100.

60K 32x32 color images in 100 fine-grained classes grouped into 20 superclasses. More challenging than CIFAR-10.

Saturated benchmark

Benchmark near ceiling or stagnant — no meaningful SOTA movement in 2+ years

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§ 01 · Leaderboard

Best published scores.

10 results indexed across 1 metric. Shaded row marks current SOTA; ties broken by submission date.

Primary
accuracy · higher is better
accuracy· primary
10 rows
#ModelOrgSubmittedPaper / codeaccuracy
01ViT-H/14OpenGoogleDec 2025google-research94.55
02Vision Transformer (ViT-H/14)—Oct 2020An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Re… · code94.55
03AIMv2 ViT-3B/14 448px—Nov 2024Multimodal Autoregressive Pre-training of Large Vision E… · code94.50
04BiT-L—Dec 2019Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learni… · code93.51
05BEiT—Jun 2021BEiT: BERT Pre-Training of Image Transformers · code91.80
06EfficientNet-B7OpenGoogleDec 2025google-research91.70
07ViT-B/16OpenGoogleDec 2025huggingface91.48
08LeJEPA ViT-L (304M)—Nov 2025LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning W… · code83.71
09CN-CLIP—Nov 2022Chinese CLIP: Contrastive Vision-Language Pretraining in… · code79.70
10ResNet-50OpenMicrosoftDec 2025cutout-paper78.04
Fig 2 · Rows sorted by score within each metric. Shaded row marks SOTA. Dates reflect model or paper release where available, otherwise the date Codesota accessed the source.
§ 03 · Progress

2 steps
of state of the art.

Each row below marks a model that broke the previous record on accuracy. Intermediate submissions are kept in the leaderboard above; only SOTA-setting entries are re-listed here.

Higher scores win. Each subsequent entry improved upon the previous best.

SOTA line · accuracy
  1. Dec 24, 2019BiT-L93.51
  2. Oct 22, 2020Vision Transformer (ViT-H/14)94.55
Fig 3 · SOTA-setting models only. 2 entries span Dec 2019 → Oct 2020.
§ 04 · Literature

6 papers
tied to this benchmark.

Every paper below corresponds to at least one row in the leaderboard above. Click through for the arXiv preprint and, when available, the reference implementation.

§ 06 · Contribute

Have a score that beats
this table?

Submit a checkpoint and a reproduction script. We will run it, publish the score, and — if it takes the top — annotate the step on the progress chart with your name.

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What a submission needs
  • 01A public checkpoint or API endpoint
  • 02A reproduction script with frozen commit + seed
  • 03Declared evaluation environment (Python, deps)
  • 04One row per metric declared by this dataset
  • 05A contact so we can follow up on discrepancies