Manoj Shakya

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2026

We describe our system for the AstroCLIMB shared task (WASP 2026), which reconstructs the citation graph of astronomy papers from scientific figures and captions alone. The task requires identifying the relationship between pairs of figures and captions as same_figure, same_paper, related_papers, or unrelated_papers. Our system finetunes google/gemma-4-E4B-it using QLoRA on 8,200 competition training rows with a shared descriptive prompt and greedy decoding. A zero shot baseline achieves 0.4408 macro F1 on a balanced 1,800 pair validation split held out from the competition training file, and the finetuned system substantially improves this citation-relation classification for the challenging related_papers class in particular. Our submitted system achieves 0.64282 F1 on all 10,000 official test pairs. These results show that multimodal finetuning can improve citation-relation inference from scientific figures and captions when document metadata is unavailable.