Silvia Ahmed


2025

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Bidirectional Reasoning Supervision for Multilingual Financial Decision Making
Muhammad Rafsan Kabir | Jawad Ibn Ahad | Robin Krambroeckers | Silvia Ahmed | M M Lutfe Elahi | Nabeel Mohammed | Shafin Rahman
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track

Large Language Models have achieved great success in tasks like sentiment analysis, machine translation, and question answering, yet their effectiveness in the multilingual financial domain remains less explored. This study explores the potential of generative LLMs for classifying financial sustainability in four diverse languages: English, Hindi, Bengali, and Telugu, representing low, medium, and high-resource language categories. We propose a novel fine-tuning approach that integrates both positive and negative rationales alongside classification labels. Unlike existing approaches, our method improves classification performance by incorporating structured bidirectional reasoning into financial decision-making. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that the proposed approach consistently outperforms prior methods across all four languages, establishing new benchmark results for multilingual financial NLP. Notably, it also enables smaller models to achieve competitive or even superior performance compared to significantly larger models fine-tuned with conventional methods, demonstrating its suitability for industry applications.