This paper presents our system for AdMIRe 2 (Advancing Multimodal Idiomaticity Representation), a shared task on multilingual multimodal idiom understanding. The task focuses on ranking images according to how well they depict the literal or idiomatic usage of potentially idiomatic expressions (PIEs) in context, across 15 languages and two tracks: a text-only track, and a multimodal track that uses both images and captions. To tackle both tracks, we propose a hybrid zero-shot pipeline built on large vision–language models (LVLMs). Our system employs a chain-of-thought prompting scheme that first classifies each PIE usage as literal or idiomatic and then ranks candidate images by their alignment with the inferred meaning.A primary–fallback routing mechanism increases robustness to safety-filter refusals, while lightweight post-processing recovers consistent rankings from imperfect model outputs.Without any task-specific fine-tuning, our approach achieves 55.9% Top-1 Accuracy in the text-only track and 60.1% in the multimodal (text+image) track, ranking first overall on the official leaderboard. These results suggest that carefully designed zero-shot LVLM pipelines can provide strong baselines for multilingual multimodal idiomaticity benchmarks.

This paper presents our system for SemEval-2025 Task 8: DataBench, Question-Answeringover Tabular Data. The primary objective ofthis task is to perform question answering ongiven tabular datasets from diverse domains;under two subtasks: DataBench QA (SubtaskI) and DataBench Lite QA (Subtask II). Totackle both subtasks, we developed a zero-shotsolution with a particular emphasis on lever-aging Large Language Model (LLM)-basedcode generation. Specifically, we proposeda Python code generation framework, utiliz-ing state-of-the-art open-source LLMs to gen-erate executable Pandas code via optimizedprompting strategies. Our experiments revealthat different LLMs exhibit varying levels ofeffectiveness in Python code generation. Addi-tionaly, results show that Python code genera-tion achieves superior performance in tabularquestion answering compared to alternative ap-proaches. Although our ranking among zero-shot systems is unknown at the time of this pa-per’s submission, our system achieved eighthplace in Subtask I and sixth place in Subtask IIamong the 30 systems that outperformed thebaseline in the open-source models category.