arXiv AI By Alicia Larsen, Victoire Laurent, Aulia Kharis Rakhamsari, Lara Turgut, Nino Antulov-Fantulin

V-FiLLM: Verified Financial LLM Reasoning Benchmark

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arXiv:2608. 11047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While existing benchmarks have made substantial progress in evaluating LLMs across STEM domains, financial reasoning over structured data remains comparatively less explored.

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