QIAS 2026: Overview of the Shared Task on Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

[2606.13756] QIAS 2026: Overview of the Shared Task on Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

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Title:QIAS 2026: Overview of the Shared Task on Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

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Abstract:This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the QIAS 2026 shared task, organized as part of the OSACT7 Workshop and co-located with LREC 2026. The shared task was designed to evaluate the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning in the religious and legal domain of Islamic inheritance. Unlike conventional question-answering benchmarks, QIAS 2026 focuses on end-to-end reasoning from natural language cases, requiring systems to perform the full inheritance calculation process, from identifying the eligible heirs to assigning the correct share to each beneficiary. To support this evaluation, the task was based on the MAWARITH benchmark, a dataset of $12{,}500$ Arabic inheritance cases annotated with intermediate reasoning steps and final answers. System submissions were evaluated using MIR-E, a multi-step metric that measures performance across the main stages of inheritance reasoning. A total of $16$ teams participated in the shared task, investigating a range of approaches, including prompting-based methods, retrieval-augmented generation, and fine-tuning strategies. The results show that Islamic inheritance remains a highly challenging benchmark for current language models, especially in stages that require precise legal interpretation and structured numerical reasoning. This overview summarizes the task design, dataset, evaluation framework, participating systems, and main results.

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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.13756

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From: Abdesselam Bouchekif [view email] [v1] Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:13:30 UTC (34 KB)

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