Mircea Andrei Razvan
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Mircea Andrei Razvan at the FinEval 2026: A Unified Prompting Approach for Multilingual Financial Q&A
Mircea Andrei Razvan
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
Mircea Andrei Razvan
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing
We describe our submission to Subtask 3 of the FinNLP 2026 Shared Task, based on MultiFinBen/PolyFiQA (Peng et al., 2026), in which models answer cross-document financial questions using SEC financial-report statements and contemporaneous multilingual news in English, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Greek, evaluated using ROUGE-1. The task’s four fixed question templates require an answer synthesized from the news, supported by evidence cited from the financial statements. We use Qwen3-VL-30B-A3B-Instruct, an open-weight mixture-of-experts model accessed via OpenRouter, with template-aware prompting for each question type. In early development, a multi-stage pipeline separating answer generation from evidence retrieval produced a high rate of empty evidence fields. A single unified generation call substantially reduced this rate. We additionally find that several formatting conventions, including specific numeric notation, compact period references, and a fixed field label, were not reliably followed through prompt instructions alone, and were instead enforced with rule-based post-processing. Our final system achieves a ROUGE-1 F1 of 36.53% on the official test set. These results suggest that deterministic post-processing remains a practical complement to prompt-based instruction for enforcing output conventions that models do not reliably learn from context alone.