Critic Agents Improve Numerical QA On Financials

Nelvin Tan et al. (arXiv v3, Jan 7, 2026) analyze critic agents for numerical question answering on financial documents and show traditional critics deteriorate without oracle labels. They introduce an improved critic plus a calculator agent that outperform the prior program-of-thought baseline and provide safer outputs. The paper also examines agent interactions and their effects on accuracy, indicating practical improvements for financial numerical reasoning workflows.
Scoring Rationale
Method shows strong SOTA gains and safety improvements, but focuses narrowly on financial numerical QA limiting broad applicability.
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