arXiv:2606. 25808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a predict-optimize-explain framework that uses gradient-based sample generation to interpret various portfolio models by identifying macroeconomic conditions that induce specified portfolio outcomes.
By Batuhan Ata\c{s}, Nur\c{s}en Ayd{\i}n, E. Mehmet K{\i}ral, \c{S}. \.Ilker Birbil
arXiv:2608.28646v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can generate plausible-sounding ETF portfolios while silently violating basic KYC-style constraints on risk, fees, and div...
By Gaurav Kukreja, Parul Kukreja, Mohammed Abraar, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar, Sreedath Panat
arXiv:2605.28853v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Portfolio optimization in real-world financial markets is notoriously difficult due to non-stationarity, noisy data, and high transaction cos...
By Rahul Fernandes, Travis Desell
arXiv:2606. 29771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly cast as autonomous portfolio managers, and benchmarks have moved from financial question-answering to sequential trading.
By Bo Qu, Mingguang Chen
arXiv:2603. 19225v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world financial decision-making is a challenging problem that requires reasoning over heterogeneous signals, including company fundamentals derived from regulatory filings and trading signals computed from price dynamics.
By Yogesh Agrawal, Aniruddha Dutta, Md Mahadi Hasan, Santu Karmaker, Aritra Dutta
arXiv:2604. 10015v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent studies demonstrate that tool-calling capability enables large language models (LLMs) to interact with external environments for long-horizon financial tasks.
By Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Weijin Liu, Wenbo Cao, Anke Xu, Lingfei Qian, Xueqing Peng, Minxue Tang, Zhiyuan Yao, Jimin Huang, K. P. Subbalakshmi, Zining Zhu, Jordan W. Suchow, Yangyang Yu
arXiv:2608. 11683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are increasingly deployed for professional investment research, yet no benchmark captures the complexity of the full investor workflow.
By Yuhao Zhang, O. Ozan Koyluoglu, Thejas Venkatesh, Richard Diehl Martinez, Vishank Bhatia, Arash Alidoust, Ashwin Paranjape
arXiv:2607. 12455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Quantitative strategy optimization remains largely manual, requiring domain experts to identify weak signals, tune risk-control rules, and repeatedly validate iterative revisions.
By Jie Mao, Changlun Li, Xiang Li, Qiqi Duan, Jinhui Yuan, Xiang Liu, Yuyu Luo, Jing Tang, Xiaowen Chu, Nan Tang
arXiv:2607. 27853v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Powered by advances in LLMs and autonomous agents, deep research has become one of the most widely adopted agentic products.
By Yijia Xiao, Rujun Han, Yanfei Chen, Zifeng Wang, Ke Jiang, Zhongying CuiZhu, Vishy Tirumalashetty, Wei Wang, Burak Gokturk, Tomas Pfister, Chen-Yu Lee
arXiv:2606. 03704v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial decision-making tasks such as stock recommendation and portfolio allocation typically estimate future return and risk and then select trades or allocations for an investor, and the chosen optimization objective often determines realized performance.
By Keigo Sakurai, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama, Anjyu Anan, Kei Nakagawa
arXiv:2605.24564v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Backtesting large language models (LLMs) on historical financial data is unreliable when their pre-training data include the evaluated events. An L...
By Weixian Waylon Li, Mengyu Wang, Tiejun Ma
The study investigates whether adding inference-time reasoning to large language models (LLMs) improves trading performance. Using a controlled experiment across DeepSeek, GPT, and Gemini models, the authors varied reasoning effort while keeping other variables constant and evaluated over a full year of U.S. equities under three input conditions. Results show that additional reasoning does not reliably increase net portfolio returns and can even lead to nonmonotonic performance and unstable outcomes.
By Jiayi Chen, Guiling Wang