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author Peng, Xueqing
Qian, Lingfei
Wang, Yan
Xiang, Ruoyu
He, Yueru
Ren, Yang
Jiang, Mingyang
Zhang, Vincent Jim
Guo, Yuqing
Zhao, Jeff
He, Huan
Han, Yi
Feng, Yun
Jiang, Yuechen
Cao, Yupeng
Li, Haohang
Yu, Yangyang
Wang, Xiaoyu
Gao, Penglei
Lin, Shengyuan
Wang, Keyi
Yang, Shanshan
Zhao, Yilun
Liu, Zhiwei
Lu, Peng
Huang, Jerry
Wang, Suyuchen
Papadopoulos, Triantafillos
Giannouris, Polydoros
Soufleri, Efstathia
Chen, Nuo
Deng, Zhiyang
Fu, Heming
Zhao, Yijia
Lin, Mingquan
Qiu, Meikang
Smith, Kaleb E
Cohan, Arman
Liu, Xiao-Yang
Huang, Jimin
Xiong, Guojun
Lopez-Lira, Alejandro
Chen, Xi
Tsujii, Junichi
Nie, Jian-Yun
Ananiadou, Sophia
Xie, Qianqian
author_facet Peng, Xueqing
Qian, Lingfei
Wang, Yan
Xiang, Ruoyu
He, Yueru
Ren, Yang
Jiang, Mingyang
Zhang, Vincent Jim
Guo, Yuqing
Zhao, Jeff
He, Huan
Han, Yi
Feng, Yun
Jiang, Yuechen
Cao, Yupeng
Li, Haohang
Yu, Yangyang
Wang, Xiaoyu
Gao, Penglei
Lin, Shengyuan
Wang, Keyi
Yang, Shanshan
Zhao, Yilun
Liu, Zhiwei
Lu, Peng
Huang, Jerry
Wang, Suyuchen
Papadopoulos, Triantafillos
Giannouris, Polydoros
Soufleri, Efstathia
Chen, Nuo
Deng, Zhiyang
Fu, Heming
Zhao, Yijia
Lin, Mingquan
Qiu, Meikang
Smith, Kaleb E
Cohan, Arman
Liu, Xiao-Yang
Huang, Jimin
Xiong, Guojun
Lopez-Lira, Alejandro
Chen, Xi
Tsujii, Junichi
Nie, Jian-Yun
Ananiadou, Sophia
Xie, Qianqian
contents Real-world financial analysis involves information across multiple languages and modalities, from reports and news to scanned filings and meeting recordings. Yet most existing evaluations of LLMs in finance remain text-only, monolingual, and largely saturated by current models. To bridge these gaps, we present MultiFinBen, the first expert-annotated multilingual (five languages) and multimodal (text, vision, audio) benchmark for evaluating LLMs in realistic financial contexts. MultiFinBen introduces two new task families: multilingual financial reasoning, which tests cross-lingual evidence integration from filings and news, and financial OCR, which extracts structured text from scanned documents containing tables and charts. Rather than aggregating all available datasets, we apply a structured, difficulty-aware selection based on advanced model performance, ensuring balanced challenge and removing redundant tasks. Evaluating 21 leading LLMs shows that even frontier multimodal models like GPT-4o achieve only 46.01% overall, stronger on vision and audio but dropping sharply in multilingual settings. These findings expose persistent limitations in multilingual, multimodal, and expert-level financial reasoning. All datasets, evaluation scripts, and leaderboards are publicly released.
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spellingShingle MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application
Peng, Xueqing
Qian, Lingfei
Wang, Yan
Xiang, Ruoyu
He, Yueru
Ren, Yang
Jiang, Mingyang
Zhang, Vincent Jim
Guo, Yuqing
Zhao, Jeff
He, Huan
Han, Yi
Feng, Yun
Jiang, Yuechen
Cao, Yupeng
Li, Haohang
Yu, Yangyang
Wang, Xiaoyu
Gao, Penglei
Lin, Shengyuan
Wang, Keyi
Yang, Shanshan
Zhao, Yilun
Liu, Zhiwei
Lu, Peng
Huang, Jerry
Wang, Suyuchen
Papadopoulos, Triantafillos
Giannouris, Polydoros
Soufleri, Efstathia
Chen, Nuo
Deng, Zhiyang
Fu, Heming
Zhao, Yijia
Lin, Mingquan
Qiu, Meikang
Smith, Kaleb E
Cohan, Arman
Liu, Xiao-Yang
Huang, Jimin
Xiong, Guojun
Lopez-Lira, Alejandro
Chen, Xi
Tsujii, Junichi
Nie, Jian-Yun
Ananiadou, Sophia
Xie, Qianqian
Computation and Language
Real-world financial analysis involves information across multiple languages and modalities, from reports and news to scanned filings and meeting recordings. Yet most existing evaluations of LLMs in finance remain text-only, monolingual, and largely saturated by current models. To bridge these gaps, we present MultiFinBen, the first expert-annotated multilingual (five languages) and multimodal (text, vision, audio) benchmark for evaluating LLMs in realistic financial contexts. MultiFinBen introduces two new task families: multilingual financial reasoning, which tests cross-lingual evidence integration from filings and news, and financial OCR, which extracts structured text from scanned documents containing tables and charts. Rather than aggregating all available datasets, we apply a structured, difficulty-aware selection based on advanced model performance, ensuring balanced challenge and removing redundant tasks. Evaluating 21 leading LLMs shows that even frontier multimodal models like GPT-4o achieve only 46.01% overall, stronger on vision and audio but dropping sharply in multilingual settings. These findings expose persistent limitations in multilingual, multimodal, and expert-level financial reasoning. All datasets, evaluation scripts, and leaderboards are publicly released.
title MultiFinBen: Benchmarking Large Language Models for Multilingual and Multimodal Financial Application
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14028