GMU-MU at the Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge Task: Exploring LLMs for Financial Claim Verification

Alphaeus Dmonte, Roland R. Oruche, Marcos Zampieri, Eunmi Ko, Prasad Calyam


Abstract
This paper describes the team GMU-MU submission to the Financial Misinformation Detection challenge. The goal of this challenge is to identify financial misinformation and generate explanations justifying the predictions by developing or adapting LLMs. The participants were provided with a dataset of financial claims that were categorized into six financial domain categories. We experiment with the Llama model using two approaches; instruction-tuning the model with the training dataset, and a prompting approach that directly evaluates the off-the-shelf model. Our best system was placed 5th among the 12 systems, achieving an overall evaluation score of 0.6682.
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2025.finnlp-1.36
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Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal)
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January
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2025
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Abu Dhabi, UAE
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Chung-Chi Chen, Antonio Moreno-Sandoval, Jimin Huang, Qianqian Xie, Sophia Ananiadou, Hsin-Hsi Chen
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FinNLP | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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308–312
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Alphaeus Dmonte, Roland R. Oruche, Marcos Zampieri, Eunmi Ko, and Prasad Calyam. 2025. GMU-MU at the Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge Task: Exploring LLMs for Financial Claim Verification. In Proceedings of the Joint Workshop of the 9th Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing (FinNLP), the 6th Financial Narrative Processing (FNP), and the 1st Workshop on Large Language Models for Finance and Legal (LLMFinLegal), pages 308–312, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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GMU-MU at the Financial Misinformation Detection Challenge Task: Exploring LLMs for Financial Claim Verification (Dmonte et al., FinNLP 2025)
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