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HERCULEAN
End-to-end, workflow-level evaluation of financial agents.
Every agent system, , trades, hedges, writes market reports and audits filings under the same date-bounded environment, and is scored on its whole trajectory.
No agent system is a generalist: every workflow has its own leader.
Rankings
Rankings reshuffle across workflows
Leaderboard
Who leads, workflow by workflow
#Agent system
best score in each workflow. Darker purple = higher score.
Replay
Watch an agent trade and hedge
Hedging
Long-ShortShort-LongFlatClose
Benchmark
Four workflows, one benchmark
Every workflow = Environment + Interaction Protocol + Trajectory Evaluation.
Cite
Cite HERCULEAN
Citation
@misc{peng2026herculeanagenticbenchmarkfinancial,
title={Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence},
author={Xueqing Peng and Zhuohan Xie and Yupeng Cao and Haohang Li and Lingfei Qian and Yan Wang and Vincent Jim Zhang and Huan He and Xuguang Ai and Linhai Ma and Ruoyu Xiang and Yueru He and Yi Han and Shuyao Wang and Yuqing Guo and Mingyang Jiang and Yilun Zhao and Youzhong Dong and Xiaoyu Wang and Yankai Chen and Ye Yuan and Qiyuan Zhang and Fuyuan Lyu and Haolun Wu and Yonghan Yang and Zichen Zhao and Yuyang Dai and Fan Zhang and Rania Elbadry and Ayesha Gull and Muhammad Usman Safder and Nuo Chen and Fengbin Zhu and Tianshi Cai and Zimu Wang and Polydoros Giannouris and Yuechen Jiang and Zhiwei Liu and Mohsinul Kabir and Yuyan Wang and Yixiang Zheng and Yangyang Yu and Weijin Liu and Wenbo Cao and Anke Xu and Peng Lu and Jerry Huang and Mingquan Lin and Prayag Tiwari and Yijia Zhao and Víctor Gutiérrez-Basulto and Xiao-Yang Liu and Kaleb E Smith and Jiahuan Pei and Arman Cohan and Jimin Huang and Yuehua Tang and Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Xi Chen and Xue Liu and Junichi Tsujii and Jian-Yun Nie and Sophia Ananiadou},
year={2026},
eprint={2605.14355},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.AI},
url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14355},
}
