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Workshop Mon, Apr 27, 2026 • 5:00 AM – 1:00 PM PDT 101 C

The 2nd Workshop on Advances in Financial AI Workshop: Towards Agentic and Responsible Systems

Nazanin Mehrasa ⋅ Ioana Boier ⋅ CHANYEOL CHOI ⋅ Yongjae Lee ⋅ Salwa Alamir ⋅ Simon Lucey
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Schedule

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles
5:00 AM
Opening Remarks
6:05 AM
Coffee Break
8:15 AM
Lunch Break
9:25 AM
Reformulating Imitation Learning as Return Distribution Matching
Filippo Lazzati ⋅ Alberto Maria Metelli
11:00 AM
Coffee Break
12:50 PM
Closing Remarks
Helping Customers In Distress: An LLM-Powered Agent That Converses, Probes, and Routes
Alankar Atreya ⋅ Stefan Sylvius Wagner ⋅ Devesh Batra ⋅ Robert Hankache ⋅ Cristovão Iglesias de Oliveira ⋅ Patrick Sinclair ⋅ Giulio Pelosio ⋅ Michael McMillan ⋅ Greig Cowan ⋅ Raad Khraishi
AlphaLoss: LLM-Driven Evolution of Robust and Interpretable Portfolio Optimization Objectives
Kamer Yuksel ⋅ João Pedro Maia ⋅ Thiago Castro Ferreira ⋅ Mohamed Al-Badrashiny
Towards a more efficient bias detection in Financial Language Models
Firas Hadj Kacem ⋅ Ahmed Khanfir ⋅ Mike Papadakis
BENCHMARKING OPEN-SOURCE SAFETY GUARD MODELS: A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION
Reetu Harsh ⋅ Joseph Thachil ⋅ Bhaskarjit Sarmah ⋅ Stefano Pasquali
Relational Probing: LM-to-Graph Adaptation for Financial Prediction
Yingjie Niu ⋅ Changhong Jin ⋅ Rian Dolphin ⋅ Ruihai Dong
A Modular LLM Framework for Explainable Price Outlier Detection
Shadi Sartipi ⋅ John Wu ⋅ Sina Ghotbi ⋅ Nikhita Vedula ⋅ Shervin Malmasi
When AI Adds No Signal: LLM Embeddings versus Price-Based Stock Clusters
Bingyang Wang ⋅ Grant Johnson ⋅ Maria Hybinette ⋅ Tucker Balch
Towards Expert Financial QA via Self-Improving RAG
Junjie Xiong ⋅ Shawheen Ghezavat ⋅ Aum Hirpara ⋅ Sean Wu
LLM as a Risk Manager: LLM Semantic Filtering for Lead–Lag Trading in Prediction Markets
Sumin Kim ⋅ Minjae Kim ⋅ Jihoon Kwon ⋅ Yoon Kim ⋅ ⋅ Joo Lee ⋅ Oscar Levy ⋅ Alejandro Lopez-Lira ⋅ Yongjae Lee ⋅ CHANYEOL CHOI
Reformulating Imitation Learning as Return Distribution Matching
Filippo Lazzati ⋅ Alberto Maria Metelli
Detecting Information Channels in Congressional Trading via Temporal Graph Learning
Benjamin Roodman ⋅ Eugene Sy ⋅ J. Vázquez ⋅ Yu-Shiang Huang ⋅ Che Lin ⋅ Chuan-Ju Wang
The Price of Agreement: Measuring LLM Sycophancy in Agentic Financial Applications
Zhenyu Zhao ⋅ Aparna Balagopalan ⋅ Aditya Agrawal ⋅ ⋅ Waseem Alshikh ⋅ Daniel Bikel
Large-Scale Chatbot Validation Through Customer Digital Twin Simulations
Cristovão Iglesias de Oliveira ⋅ Devesh Batra ⋅ Alankar Atreya ⋅ Stefan Sylvius Wagner ⋅ Robert Hankache ⋅ Patrick Sinclair ⋅ Giulio Pelosio ⋅ Michael McMillan ⋅ Greig Cowan ⋅ Raad Khraishi
Federated Agent Reinforcement Learning
Canyu Chen ⋅ Kangyu Zhu ⋅ Zhaorun Chen ⋅ Zhanhui Zhou ⋅ Shizhe Diao ⋅ Yiping Lu ⋅ Tian Li ⋅ Manling Li ⋅ Dawn Song
BIASMIX-FINANCE: POST-GENERATION KYC GUARDRAILS FOR LLM PORTFOLIO ADVICE
Gaurav kukreja ⋅ Mohammed Abraar ⋅ Raj Dandekar ⋅ Rajat Dandekar ⋅ Sreedath Panat ⋅ Parul Kukreja
Winner Stock Prediction as Decision-Aligned Multiclass Classification
Blanca Méndez ⋅ Jairo Diaz-Rodriguez ⋅ Pavlos Gkasis
AI-BAAM: AI-Driven Bank Statement Analytics as Alternative Data for Malaysian MSME Credit Scoring
Chun Chet Ng ⋅ Zhen Hao Chu ⋅ Jia Yu Lim ⋅ Boon Yin ⋅ Low Zeng ⋅ Jin Tan
Decoupling Identity from Utility: Privacy-by-Design Frameworks for Financial Ecosystems
Ifayoyinsola Ibikunle ⋅ Tyler Farnan ⋅ Senthil Kumar ⋅ Mayana Pereira
LLM-as-a-Prophet: Understanding Predictive Intelligence with Prophet Arena
Qingchuan Yang ⋅ Simon Mahns ⋅ Sida Li ⋅ Anri Gu ⋅ Jibang Wu ⋅ Haifeng Xu
AutoQA: An Interpretable Automation Framework for CDD Quality Assurance in Financial Services
Iman Zafar ⋅ Andrea Bassani ⋅ Alexandros Anatolakis ⋅ Greig Cowan ⋅ Raad Khraishi
Uncertainty-Gated Generative Modeling
Xingrui Gu ⋅ Haixi Zhang
Computational Arbitrage in AI Model Markets
Ricardo Dominguez-Olmedo ⋅ Bernhard Schölkopf ⋅ Moritz Hardt
IMPACT OF LLMS NEWS SENTIMENT ANALYSIS ON STOCK PRICE MOVEMENT PREDICTION
Walid Siala ⋅ Ahmed Khanfir ⋅ Mike Papadakis
Forecasting Future Language: Context Design for Mention Markets
Sumin Kim ⋅ Jihoon Kwon ⋅ Yoon Kim ⋅ ⋅ Raffi Khatchadourian ⋅ Wonbin Ahn ⋅ Alejandro Lopez-Lira ⋅ Jaewon Lee ⋅ Yoontae Hwang ⋅ Oscar Levy ⋅ Yongjae Lee ⋅ CHANYEOL CHOI
Toward An Agentic Approach in Anti-Money Laundering Investigation for Typology Classification
Rémi Grzeczkowicz ⋅ OUGUENOUNE Amine ⋅ Mariam BARRY ⋅ ⋅ Mehdi MOUAYAD ⋅ Yanlei DIAO
From Natural Language to Executable Option Strategies via Large Language Models
Haochen Luo ⋅ Zhengzhao Lai ⋅ Junjie Xu ⋅ YIFAN LI ⋅ Tang Hin ⋅ Yuan Zhang ⋅ Chen Liu
A VLM-Based Framework For Technical Analysis
Akshata Tiwari ⋅ Jillian Ross ⋅ Benjamin Manning ⋅ Andrew Lo
Regime-aware Financial Volatility Forecasting via In-Context Learning
Saba Asaad ⋅ Shayan Mohajer Hamidi ⋅ Ali Bereyhi
Dynamic Objective Selection with Safeguards and LLM Oversight for Financial Decision-Making
Keigo Sakurai ⋅ Takahiro Ogawa ⋅ Miki Haseyama ⋅ ⋅ Kei Nakagawa
SpreadsheetArena: Decomposing Preference in LLM Generation of Spreadsheet Workbooks
Srivatsa Kundurthy ⋅ Clara Na ⋅ Michael Handley ⋅ Zach Kirshner ⋅ Chen Bo Calvin Zhang ⋅ Manasi Sharma ⋅ John Ling
LLM-Driven Correlation-Aware Tournaments
Kamer Yuksel ⋅ João Pedro Maia ⋅ Thiago Castro Ferreira ⋅ Mohamed Al-Badrashiny
When Quotes Crumble: Detecting Transient Mechanical Liquidity Erosion in Limit Order Books
Haohan Xu ⋅ Jason Bohne ⋅ Pawel Polak ⋅ Yurij Baransky ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Gary Kazantsev ⋅ David Rosenberg
Developing an ESG-Oriented Large Language Model through ESG Practices
Gabriel Assis ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ Darian Rabbani ⋅ Edson Bollis ⋅ ⋅ Aline Paes
Does Explicit Reasoning Help in Finance? A Study of Chain-of-Thought for Financial NLP
Ziyue Wang ⋅ Zhiyu XU ⋅ Yi Liu ⋅ Yuxiang Wang ⋅ Ruihan Bao ⋅ Keiko Harimoto ⋅ Xu Sun
From Text to Alpha: Can LLMs Track Evolving Signals in Corporate Disclosures?
CHANYEOL CHOI ⋅ Yoon Kim ⋅ Yu Yu ⋅ Zach Golkhou ⋅ ⋅ GEORGIOS PAPAIOANNOU ⋅ ⋅ Zhangyang Wang ⋅ Jihoon Kwon ⋅ Minjae Kim ⋅ Alejandro Lopez-Lira ⋅ Yongjae Lee
Finch: Benchmarking Finance & Accounting across Spreadsheet-Centric Enterprise Workflows
Haoyu Dong ⋅ Pengkun Zhang ⋅ Yan Gao ⋅ Xuanyu Dong ⋅ Yilin Cheng ⋅ Mingzhe Lu ⋅ Adina Yakefu ⋅ Shuxin Zheng
An Industrial-Scale Insurance LLM Achieving Verifiable Domain Mastery and Hallucination Control without Competence Trade-offs
Qian Zhu ⋅ Xinnan Guo ⋅ Jingjing Huo ⋅ Jun Li ⋅ Pan Liu ⋅ Wenyan Yang ⋅ Wanqing Xu ⋅ Xuan Lin
Evaluating Frontier Agents on End-to-End Investment Banking Workflows
Elaine Lau ⋅ Rosemary Wei ⋅ Guram Gogia ⋅ Ronak Chaudhary ⋅ Yi Liu ⋅ Samuel Danquah ⋅ Punit Arani ⋅ Ray Epps ⋅ Markus Dücker ⋅ Abdullah Arif ⋅ Asrith Devalaraju ⋅ Varsha Sandadi ⋅ Scott Millslagle ⋅ Haemi Nam ⋅ Skyler Wang ⋅ Sahil Bhaiwala ⋅ Anish Athalye ⋅ Jonas Mueller ⋅ Francisco Guzmán
Risk-Adjusted Harm Scoring for Automated Red Teaming for LLMs in Financial Services
Fabrizio Dimino ⋅ Bhaskarjit Sarmah ⋅ Stefano Pasquali
LLM-Driven Active Listwise Tournaments for Portfolio Selection in Large Asset Universes
Kamer Yuksel ⋅ João Pedro Maia ⋅ Thiago Castro Ferreira ⋅ Mohamed Al-Badrashiny
Dynamic Taxonomy Construction and Thematic Filtering for Financial Knowledge Graphs
Atousa Assadihaghi ⋅ Reza Amini ⋅ Daniel Schiemert ⋅ Ewan Mackie ⋅ Zhiwen Xu
Evaluating LLM Simulators as Differentially Private Data Generators
Nassima Bouzid ⋅ Dehao Yuan ⋅ Nam Nguyen ⋅ Mayana Pereira
TimeSeek: Temporal Reliability of Agentic Forecasters
Om Shastri ⋅ Hamza Mostafa ⋅ Dennis Lee
When Do We Need LLMs? A Diagnostic for Language-Driven Bandits
Uljad Berdica ⋅ Fernando Acero ⋅ Anton Ipsen ⋅ Parisa Zehtabi ⋅ Michael Cashmore ⋅ Manuela Veloso