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easy en-jachat

The prompt

user

Translate the following text into Japanese. Use casual Japanese, as between friends. Reply with only the translation.

I'm at the station now. I'll be there in 5 minutes!
What we expected
{
  "source_lang": "en",
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "register_note": "Use casual Japanese, as between friends.",
  "source": "I'm at the station now. I'll be there in 5 minutes!",
  "reference": "今、駅にいるよ。あと5分で着く!",
  "alt_references": [
    "今駅にいる。5分で着くよ!",
    "今、駅に着いたとこ。あと5分で行くね!"
  ],
  "must_keep": [
    [
      "駅"
    ],
    [
      "5分",
      "五分"
    ]
  ],
  "register_check": {
    "require": [],
    "forbid": [
      "ます",
      "ました",
      "ません",
      "ましょう",
      "です",
      "でした",
      "でしょう",
      "ございま"
    ]
  },
  "avoid": []
}

What each model answered

MiMo-V2.6 Distill 9B

✗ fail · score 62 (scripted checks 70, judges 5.5/10 from 3) · 0.50 s

駅に着きました。あと5分です!

Judge medians: Adequacy 8 · Fluency and register 3

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "駅に着きました。あと5分です!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 30.41,
  "best_ref": 0,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "4/5",
  "failed_checks": [
    {
      "type": "register_forbid",
      "ok": false,
      "found": [
        "ました",
        "です"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.5103
}

Ornith-1.5 9B

✓ pass · score 87 (scripted checks 79, judges 9.5/10 from 3) · 0.45 s

駅に着いたよ。あと5分!

Judge medians: Adequacy 9 · Fluency and register 10

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "駅に着いたよ。あと5分!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 32.87,
  "best_ref": 0,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "5/5",
  "failed_checks": [],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.5718
}

Granite 4.2 8B

✗ fail · score 63 (scripted checks 66, judges 6.0/10 from 3) · 0.63 s

今駅にいます。5分でそこに到着します!

Judge medians: Adequacy 10 · Fluency and register 2

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "今駅にいます。5分でそこに到着します!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 27.76,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "4/5",
  "failed_checks": [
    {
      "type": "register_forbid",
      "ok": false,
      "found": [
        "ます"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.444
}

Spark-X2.5 4B

✓ pass · score 88 (scripted checks 86, judges 9.0/10 from 3) · 0.36 s

駅に着いてるよ。5分で着くから!

Judge medians: Adequacy 9 · Fluency and register 9

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "駅に着いてるよ。5分で着くから!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 38.52,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "5/5",
  "failed_checks": [],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.7131
}

Mellum2.1 12B-A2.5B

✓ pass · score 78 (scripted checks 81, judges 7.5/10 from 3) · 0.31 s

電車の駅に着いてるんだ。5分で着くから!

Judge medians: Adequacy 8 · Fluency and register 7

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "電車の駅に着いてるんだ。5分で着くから!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 34.96,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "5/5",
  "failed_checks": [],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.624
}

Ling-3.0-tiny (7.9B-A1.3B)

✓ pass · score 98 (scripted checks 100, judges 9.5/10 from 3) · 0.19 s

今駅にいるよ!5分で着くよ!

Judge medians: Adequacy 10 · Fluency and register 9

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "今駅にいるよ!5分で着くよ!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 61.83,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "5/5",
  "failed_checks": [],
  "chrf_scaled": 1
}

MiniCPM5 2B

✗ fail · score 47 (scripted checks 60, judges 3.5/10 from 3) · 0.24 s

駅にいきました。5分でそこへ!

Judge medians: Adequacy 4 · Fluency and register 3

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "駅にいきました。5分でそこへ!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 22.66,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "4/5",
  "failed_checks": [
    {
      "type": "register_forbid",
      "ok": false,
      "found": [
        "ました"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.3165
}

K2-Horizon 0.9B

✗ fail · score 40 (scripted checks 51, judges 3.0/10 from 3) · 0.12 s

私は駅にいます。5分後にいらっしゃいます!

Judge medians: Adequacy 5 · Fluency and register 1

Scoring detail
{
  "target_lang": "ja",
  "cleaned": "私は駅にいます。5分後にいらっしゃいます!",
  "detected_lang": "ja",
  "lang_ok": true,
  "chrf": 15.54,
  "best_ref": 1,
  "pass_bar": 20,
  "checks_passed": "4/5",
  "failed_checks": [
    {
      "type": "register_forbid",
      "ok": false,
      "found": [
        "ます"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "chrf_scaled": 0.1385
}

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