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MCIF documentation
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MCIF is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating **multimodal, crosslingual instruction-following**
systems, which covers *3 modalities* (text, speech, and video), *4 languages* (English, German,
Italian, and Chinese), and *13 tasks* (organized into 4 macro-tasks).

Check out the :doc:`usage` section for instructions on how to use the repository and the
:doc:`installation` section for further information about how to install the project.

- **Github:** `https://github.com/hlt-mt/mcif.git <https://github.com/hlt-mt/mcif.git>`__
- **PyPi:** `https://pypi.org/project/mcif <https://pypi.org/project/mcif>`__

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Credits
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The library is released open source under Apache 2.0 License.
If you use this library, please cite:

.. code-block::

  @misc{papi2025mcifmultimodalcrosslingualinstructionfollowing,
      title={{MCIF: Multimodal Crosslingual Instruction-Following Benchmark from Scientific Talks}},
      author={Sara Papi and Maike Züfle and Marco Gaido and Beatrice Savoldi and Danni Liu and Ioannis Douros and Luisa Bentivogli and Jan Niehues},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2507.19634},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CL},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19634},
  }