Xiang Yao Ng
Author directory2026
FinDeepForecast : A Live Multi-Agent System for Benchmarking Deep Research Agents in Financial Forecasting
Xiangyu Li | Xuan Yao | Guohao Qi | Fengbin Zhu | Kelvin J.L. Koa | Xiang Yao Ng | Ziyang Liu | Ni Xingyu | Liu Chang | Yonghui Yang | Yang Zhang | Wenjie Wang | Fuli Feng | Chao Wang | Huanbo Luan | Xiaofen Xing | Xiangmin Xu | Tat-Seng Chua | Ke-Wei Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Xiangyu Li | Xuan Yao | Guohao Qi | Fengbin Zhu | Kelvin J.L. Koa | Xiang Yao Ng | Ziyang Liu | Ni Xingyu | Liu Chang | Yonghui Yang | Yang Zhang | Wenjie Wang | Fuli Feng | Chao Wang | Huanbo Luan | Xiaofen Xing | Xiangmin Xu | Tat-Seng Chua | Ke-Wei Huang
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Deep Research (DR) Agents powered by advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) have fundamentally shifted the paradigm for completing complex research tasks. Yet, a comprehensive and live evaluation of their forecasting performance on real-world, research-oriented tasks in high-stakes domains (eg finance) remains underexplored. We introduce FinDeepForecast, the first live, end-to-end multi-agent system for automatically evaluating DR agents by continuously generating research-oriented financial forecasting tasks. This system is equipped with a dual-track taxonomy, enabling the dynamic generation of recurrent and non-recurrent forecasting tasks at both corporate and macro levels. With this system, we generate FinDeepForecastBench, a weekly evaluation benchmark over a ten-week horizon, encompassing 8 global economies and 1,314 listed companies, and evaluate 13 representative methods. Extensive experiments show that, while DR agents consistently outperform strong baselines, their performance still falls short of genuine forward-looking financial reasoning. We expect the proposed FinDeepForecast system to consistently facilitate future advancements of DR agents in research-oriented financial forecasting tasks. The project website is available at https://OpenFinArena.com.