The CLEF-2026 FinMMEval Lab: Multilingual and Multimodal Evaluation of Financial AI Systems
It addresses the gap in existing monolingual and text-only financial AI benchmarks, promoting robust and globally inclusive systems for financial NLP applications.
The paper introduces FinMMEval 2026, the first multilingual and multimodal evaluation framework for financial LLMs, offering three tasks to measure models' ability to reason and act across languages and modalities, with datasets publicly released for reproducible research.
We present the setup and the tasks of the FinMMEval Lab at CLEF 2026, which introduces the first multilingual and multimodal evaluation framework for financial Large Language Models (LLMs). While recent advances in financial natural language processing have enabled automated analysis of market reports, regulatory documents, and investor communications, existing benchmarks remain largely monolingual, text-only, and limited to narrow subtasks. FinMMEval 2026 addresses this gap by offering three interconnected tasks that span financial understanding, reasoning, and decision-making: Financial Exam Question Answering, Multilingual Financial Question Answering (PolyFiQA), and Financial Decision Making. Together, these tasks provide a comprehensive evaluation suite that measures models' ability to reason, generalize, and act across diverse languages and modalities. The lab aims to promote the development of robust, transparent, and globally inclusive financial AI systems, with datasets and evaluation resources publicly released to support reproducible research.