Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and preprints from Manulife AI teams.

• 2026 Beyond Accuracy: Robustness, Cost, and Governance Trade-offs for Vision-Language Models in Templated Document Extraction arXiv preprint
• 2026 A Practical Algorithm for Feature-Rich, Non-Stationary Bandit Problems Transactions on Machine Learning Research
• 2026 Tasks over Application Manuals: Revealing Gaps in Long-Horizon Procedural Reasoning for Language Models arXiv preprint
• 2026 When Synthetic Data Hurts: On Catastrophic Forgetting in Skill Retrieval for LLM Agents EMNLP 2026 (Industry Track)
• 2026 A Momentum-Based Normalization Framework for Generating Profitable Analyst Sentiment Signals Journal of Risk and Financial Management
• 2026 Regime-Aware Interpretable Ranking for Sector Rotation (accepted to Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF '26))
• 2026 Understanding Multi-Structured Documents via LLMs ECIR 2026 (Industry Track)
• 2026 Control-Data Flow Separation: Stable Prompt Optimization in Multi-Agent LLMs EMNLP 2026 Findings
• 2026 DualBO: Diversity-Aware Candidate Generation and Semantics-Behavior Coupled Bayesian Optimization for Prompt Search (accepted to Findings of ACL 2026)
• 2025 Implementing Retrieval Augmented Generation Technique on Unstructured and Structured Data Sources in a Call Center of a Large Financial Institution NAACL 2025 (Industry Track)
• 2024 Fin-ALICE: Artificial Linguistic Intelligence Causal Econometrics Journal of Risk and Financial Management
• 2023 The Emotion Magnitude Effect: Navigating Market Dynamics Amidst Supply Chain Events Journal of Risk and Financial Management
• 2023 Enhancing Financial Market Analysis and Prediction with Emotion Corpora and News Co-occurrence Network Journal of Risk and Financial Management
• 2023 Using Social Media to Help Understand Patient-Reported Health Outcomes of Post-COVID-19 Condition: Natural Language Processing Approach Journal of Medical Internet Research