Haya Buayyan Alwizrah

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2026

Arabic function calling requires models to identify appropriate tools and reproduce arguments in the exact representation expected by evaluators. This is challenging due to dialectal variation, lexical alternatives, and surface-form normalization. We present a hybrid system based on Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct adapted with 4-bit QLoRA, followed by conservative deterministic post-processing. The neural model generates flexible tool calls, while a lightweight deterministic layer parses, validates, and casts the output to improve compliance with the exact-match evaluation format. On the official blind evaluation, our system obtains 93.24% Function Accuracy and 58.38% Argument Exact Match (Track A: 72.32%, Track B: 71.37%). Error analysis indicates that many remaining failures arise from argument-surface mismatches rather than function-selection errors, supporting a design where generative modeling handles semantics while deterministic processing controls exact realization.