15 papers
Right Frame, Wrong Rule: Cultural Cues Expose the Financial Knowledge Gap They Were Meant to Close
Rania Elbadry, Ahmed Heakl, Saeed Almheiri +12
When a question has valid answers under different normative frameworks, a language model must decide which framework to use and whether it can answer correctly within it. We call t…
Overview of FinMMEval 2026 Task 2: Multilingual Financial Short-Answer Question Answering
Zhuohan Xie, Xueqing Peng, Georgi Georgiev +18
FinMMEval 2026 Task 2 evaluates short-answer financial question answering over multilingual evidence. Each final-test item pairs an English question with financial statements and n…
Overview of FinMMEval 2026 Task 1: Multilingual Financial Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Zhuohan Xie, Yuyang Dai, Rania Elbadry +18
FinMMEval 2026 Task 1 evaluates multilingual financial multiple-choice question answering in English, Chinese, Arabic, and Hindi. The task tests whether systems can select the corr…
Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models
Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, George Ibrahim +57
Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric language modeling, with strong p…
FinPersona-Bench: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Psychometric Stability of Autonomous Financial Agents
Muhammad Usman Safder, Ayesha Gull, Rania Elbadry +7
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed as autonomous financial agents initialized with explicit behavioral mandates such as "preserve capital" or "avoid speculative…
Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence
Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao +60
As AI agents advance, the central question is no longer whether they can solve isolated financial tasks, but whether their capabilities generalize across complete professional work…
DocAtlas: Multilingual Document Understanding Across 80+ Languages
Ahmed Heakl, Youssef Mohamed, Abdullah Sohail +6
Multilingual document understanding remains limited for low-resource languages due to scarce training data and model-based annotation pipelines that perpetuate existing biases. We…
CEPO: RLVR Self-Distillation using Contrastive Evidence Policy Optimization
Ahmed Heakl, Abdelrahman M. Shaker, Youssef Mohamed +4
When a model produces a correct solution under reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), every token receives the same reward signal regardless of whether it was a dec…
FinReporting: An Agentic Workflow for Localized Reporting of Cross-Jurisdiction Financial Disclosures
Fan Zhang, Mingzi Song, Rania Elbadry +20
Financial reporting systems increasingly leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to extract and summarize corporate disclosures. However, most existing approaches assume a single-mar…
The Geometry of Forgetting: Temporal Knowledge Drift as an Independent Axis in LLM Representations
Rania Elbadry, Ahmed Heakl, Fan Zhang +4
Large language models confidently produce outdated answers, and no existing method can detect them. We show this is not an engineering failure but a structural one: temporal drift,…
Instruction-Guided Poetry Generation in Arabic and Its Dialects
Abdelrahman Sadallah, Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy +5
Poetry has long been a central art form for Arabic speakers, serving as a powerful medium of expression and cultural identity. While modern Arabic speakers continue to value poetry…
SAHM: A Benchmark for Arabic Financial and Shari'ah-Compliant Reasoning
Rania Elbadry, Sarfraz Ahmad, Ahmed Heakl +12
English financial NLP has advanced rapidly through benchmarks targeting earnings analysis, market sentiment, tabular reasoning, and financial question answering, yet Arabic financi…
The CLEF-2026 FinMMEval Lab: Multilingual and Multimodal Evaluation of Financial AI Systems
Zhuohan Xie, Rania Elbadry, Fan Zhang +12
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 Model…
YaPO: Learnable Sparse Activation Steering Vectors for Domain Adaptation
Abdelaziz Bounhar, Rania Hossam Elmohamady Elbadry, Hadi Abdine +3
Steering Large Language Models (LLMs) through activation interventions has emerged as a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for alignment and personalization. Recent work on Bi-…
EngTrace: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Process Evaluation of Engineering Reasoning
Ayesha Gull, Muhammad Usman Safder, Rania Elbadry +4
Most engineering problems involve complex multi-step derivations through checkable intermediate quantities. Grading only the final answer misjudges LLMs, crediting correct answers…