Publications by Xue (Steve) Liu
MBZUAI, United Arab Emirates, and McGill University, CanadaPapers by Xue (Steve) Liu at NaCTeM, newest first. All publications
2026 | 2025 | 2024
12 publications
2026
- Gong, J., Jiang, M., Liu, Z., Chen, Y., Xiong, G., Liu, X., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., TimeLitmus: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Cross-Modal Understanding and Explanation Faithfulness in Event-Conditioned Time-Series Prediction, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
- Gong, J., Jiang, M., Liu, Z., Qiao, Y., Wu, W., Xiao, M., Zhang, E., Kuang, Z., Chen, Y., Huang, C., Zhou, M., Du, X., Liu, X., Xiong, G., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., ShiJianBench: From Dialogue to Decision for Long-Horizon Evaluation of Investment Advisors, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
- Peng, X., Xie, Z., Cao, Y., Li, H., Qian, L., Wang, Y., Zhang, V. J., He, H., Ai, X., Ma, L., Xiang, R., He, Y., Han, Y., Wang, S., Guo, Y., Jiang, M., Zhao, Y., Dong, Y., Wang, X., Chen, Y., Yuan, Y., Zhang, Q., Lyu, F., Wu, H., Yang, Y., Zhao, Z., Dai, Y., Zhang, F., Elbadry, R., Gull, A., Safder, M. U., Chen, N., Zhu, F., Cai, T., Wang, Z., Giannouris, P., Jiang, Y., Liu, Z., Kabir, M., Wang, Y., Zheng, Y., Yu, Y., Liu, W., Cao, W., Xu, A., Lu, P., Huang, J., Lin, M., Tiwari, P., Zhao, Y., Gutiérrez-Basulto, V., Yanglet, X. L., Smith, K. E., Pei, J., Cohan, A., Huang, J., Tang, Y., Lopez-Lira, A., Chen, X., Liu, X., Tsujii, J., Nie, J. and Ananiadou, S., Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
- Han, Y., Wang, Y., Qian, L., Li, H., Cao, Y., He, Y., Peng, X., Shen, N., Xu, Y., Chen, Y., Feng, D., Huang, J., Liu, X., Nie, J. and Ananiadou, S., Can LLM Agents Be CFOs? Benchmarking Long-Horizon Resource Allocation in an Uncertain Enterprise Environment, in: arXiv, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
- Liu, Z., Qiang, Q., Gong, J., Guo, R., Liu, H., Kuang, Z., Hui, S., Yang, J., He, W., Jiang, M., Xie, Z., Chen, Y., Liu, X., Peng, M., Xie, Q. and Ananiadou, S., A Survey of Simulation in Finance: Data, Methods, Applications, and Evaluation, in: SSRN, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
- Liu, Z., Cao, Y., Jiang, Y., Kabir, M., Giannouris, P., Xu, C., Xu, Z., Zhu, T., Tariquzzaman, M., Papadopoulos, T., Wang, Y., Qian, L., Peng, X., Xie, Z., Yuan, Y., Almheiri, S., Alnajjar, A., Chen, M., Stuart, H., Thompson, P., Tiwari, P., Lopez-Lira, A., Liu, X., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., Same Claim, Different Judgment: Benchmarking Scenario-Induced Bias in Multilingual Financial Misinformation Detection, in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL (Findings of ACL), pages 9838–9864, 2026 [DOI] [URL]
2025
- Cao, Y., Li, H., Yu, Y., Reddy Javaji, S., He, Y., Huang, J., Zhu, Z., Xie, Q., Liu, X. -Y., Subbalakshmi, K., Qiu, M., Ananiadou, S. and Nie., J. -Y., FinAudio: A Benchmark for Audio Large Language Models in Financial Applications, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
- Xiong, G., Deng, Z., Wang, K., Cao, Y., Li, H., Yu, Y., Peng, X., Lin, M., Smith, K., Liu, X. -Y., Huang, J., Ananiadou, S. and Xie, Q., FLAG-Trader: Fusion LLM-Agent with Gradient-based Reinforcement Learning for Financial Trading, in: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025, pages 13921–13934, 2025 [DOI] [URL]
- Peng, X., Qian, L., Wang, Y., Xiang, R., He, Y., Ren, Y., Jiang, M., Zhao, J., He, H., Han, Y., Feng, Y., Jiang, Y., Cao, Y., Li, H., Yu, Y., Wang, X., Gao, P., Lin, S., Wang, K., Yang, S., Zhao, Y., Liu, Z., Lu, P., Huang, J., Wang, S., Papadopoulos, T., Giannouris, P., Soufleri, E., Chen, N., Xiong, G., Deng, Z., Zhao, Y., Lin, M., Qiu, M., Smith, K., Cohan, A., Liu, X. -Y., Lopez-Lira, A., Chen, X., Tsujii, J., Nie, J., Ananiadou, S. and Xie, Q., MultiFinBen: A Multilingual, Multimodal, and Difficulty-Aware Benchmark for Financial LLM Evaluation, in: arXiv, 2025 [URL]
2024
- Zhang, X., Xiang, R., Yuan, C., Feng, D., Han, W., Lopez-Lira, A., Liu, X. -Y., Ananiadou, S., Peng, M., Huang, J. and Xie, Q., Dólares or Dollars? Unraveling the Bilingual Prowess of Financial LLMs Between Spanish and English, in: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD '24), pages 6236-6246, 2024 [DOI] [URL]
- Xie, Q., Huang, J., Li, D., Chen, Z., Xiang, R., Xiao, M., Yu, Y., Somasundaram, V., Yang, K, Yuan, C., Luo, Z., Liu, Z., He, Y., Jiang, Y., Li, H., Feng, D., Liu, X. -Y., Wang, B., Wang, H., Lai, Y., Suchow, J., Lopez-Lira, A., Peng, M. and Ananiadou, S., FinNLP-AgentScen-2024 Shared Task: Financial Challenges in Large Language Models - FinLLMs, in: Proceedings of the Eighth Financial Technology and Natural Language Processing and the 1st Agent AI for Scenario Planning, pages 119- 126, 2024 [URL]
- Xie, Q., Li, D., Xiao, M., Jiang, Y., Xiang, R., Zhang, X., Chen, Z., He, Y., Han, W., Yang, Y., Chen, S., Zhang, Y., Shen, L., Kim, D., Liu, Z., Luo, Z., Yu, Y., Cao, Y., Deng, Z., Yao, Z., Li, H., Feng, D., Dai, Y., Somasundaram, V., Lu, P., Zhao, Y., Long, Y., Xiong, G., Smith, K., Yu, H., Lai, Y., Peng, M., Nie, J., Suchow, J., Liu, X. -Y., Wang, B., Lopez-Lira, A., Huang, J. and Ananiadou, S., Open-FinLLMs: Open Multimodal Large Language Models for Financial Applications, in: arXiv, 2024 [URL]