PRISM is a training‑free framework for financial information retrieval that combines prompt engineering, in‑context learning, and a candidate refinement module, with optional multi‑agent coordination. On FiQA‑2018 it improves Recall@100 from 0.7783 to 0.8326, and on FinAgentBench it achieves a Cohere‑refined top‑50 pool that raises NDCG@5 while cutting per‑query cost by about 35%. The authors also release an expert‑annotated evaluation set, a label‑robustness sweep, and a Pareto frontier of quality‑cost‑latency trade‑offs, and PRISM ranks third on the private FinAgentBench leaderboard without fine‑tuning.
arXiv:2609.25192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial search is a highly demanding task for LLM agents, requiring not only a correct final answer but also temporally valid information retrieval,...
The paper introduces Enrich‑Retrieve‑Rank, a scalable method for discovering capabilities in large agent ecosystems. It replaces in‑context routing with an offline enrichment step that converts sparse metadata into searchable profiles, followed by an online retrieve‑then‑rank pipeline that returns a ranked shortlist without invoking candidates. Experiments show that as the number of capabilities grows from 10 to 7,278, the new approach maintains higher top‑1 accuracy and reduces cost by 70× compared to full‑context baselines.
arXiv:2603. 26815v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems for financial document QA typically follow a chunk-based paradigm: documents are split into fragments, embedded, and retrieved by similarity.
BudgetSchemaBench is a diagnostic tool for evaluating how different schema‑context budgets affect text‑to‑SQL systems. It automatically derives relevance labels from gold SQL, tests four budgets across 80 databases, and compares three schema representations while keeping table rankings fixed. The study shows that increasing the budget improves execution accuracy, especially for lexical retrieval, and that dense retrieval already captures most needed tables at low budgets.
arXiv:2606. 29947v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as rerankers in recommender systems, with the expectation that semantic understanding will help in cold-start and long-tail regimes.
arXiv:2606. 23032v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financial tasks.
arXiv:2606. 08051v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial transaction processing requires extracting structured merchant information from noisy, abbreviated bank transaction strings at scale.
Public institutions hold large volumes of sensitive documents and support tickets that cannot leave the premises, ruling out cloud-hosted language models entirely. We report on RAGAL, a retrieval-augmented assistant for the technical-support team of AFIR, the Romanian Agency for Financing Rural Investments, built and operated under three hard constraints: zero data egress (no external API calls, even for synthetic data), a read-only mandate (the assistant drafts, humans execute), and a single 8 GB consumer laptop as the only development and training machine.
EGI‑BENCH is a unified benchmark suite for evaluating large language model agents in enterprise settings, consolidating eight existing benchmarks (CRMARENA, HERB, PERSONABENCH, USERBENCH, MCP‑UNIVERSE, MCPEVAL, BENCHFORCE, LOCOBENCH) under a single command‑line interface with two runtime‑budgeted modes. It introduces the Enterprise General Intelligence (EGI) Score, a six‑dimensional framework (M1‑M6) that aggregates fine‑grained sub‑metrics from each benchmark rather than simple averages, providing a more nuanced view of model capabilities. The paper reports results for fourteen LLMs across GPT, Claude, and Gemini families, showing varied strengths across task outcome, planning, retrieval, tool actioning, safety, and engineering quality.
The paper introduces a GPU‑optimized retrieval framework for LinkedIn’s semantic search, partitioning embeddings into eight category‑supervised segments and applying a min/median aggregation rule aligned with the existing relevance policy. A lightweight Stage‑1 scorer generates high‑recall candidates, while a two‑stage GPU architecture—FP8 coarse ranking followed by FP16 re‑ranking—boosts throughput and recall, achieving 99.6‑99.8% of full‑FP16 recall at over 500 QPS per shard. In A/B testing, the system raises exploratory‑query Precision@10 from 63.7% to 79.0% and navigational Precision@1 from 65.5% to 74.7%, with human evaluation confirming the improvement.
The paper presents a retrieval‑augmented generation pipeline for answering regulatory compliance questions in finance. It builds a three‑stage retriever on LegalBERT and a compact 2B–12B generator served with 4‑bit quantization, achieving a Recall@10 of 0.774 on the ObliQA benchmark and improving answer quality via RAFT‑LoRA fine‑tuning. However, the adapted models fail to transfer to Australian case‑law questions, and a closed‑book model performs almost as well while lacking verifiable grounding.
Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financial tasks. However, it narrowly deals with periodic reporting from publicly traded companies (SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings), and its agentic harness relies on naive, unenriched chunk retrieval.