VERA-8B: Evidence-Grounded Audit Risk Reasoning from SEC Filings
Across audit applications, judgments must be supported by reasonable evidence. However, standard financial language models prioritize fluency over evidence. They are built for general financial reasoning and may produce plausible but ambiguous answers, creating a grounding gap that makes them unsuitable for audit work. We address this gap with VERA-8B, a new end-to-end audit reasoning system that…
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