arXiv AI

The CRISTAL Method: Neurosymbolic analysis from AI-synthesized world models

arXiv:2606. 29799v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This project introduces the CRISTAL Method (Coherent Reliable Intentional Synthesis of Truthful Analysis Logic), a neurosymbolic framework for automating complex analysis workflows, with fundamental investment analysis as a primary use case.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

ASDA: Automated Skill Distillation and Adaptation for Financial Reasoning

ASDA (Automated Skill Distillation and Adaptation) is a framework that improves large language models on financial reasoning tasks without fine‑tuning. It works by having a teacher model analyze a student’s failures, cluster errors, and generate structured skill artifacts—reasoning procedures, code templates, and worked examples—that are injected during inference. On the FAMMA benchmark, ASDA boosts arithmetic reasoning by up to 17.33% and non‑arithmetic reasoning by 5.95%, outperforming existing training‑free methods.

By Tik Yu Yim, Wenting Tan, Sum Yee Chan, Tak-Wah Lam, Siu Ming Yiu
arXiv AI
Aug 20

FinSkillBench: Evaluating AI Agents and Domain Skills for Investment Management

FinSkillBench is an evaluation suite that tests whether language model agents can use financial domain skills to solve investment management tasks across portfolio construction, risk management, and fundamental analysis. The benchmark contains 12 subtasks with 2,603 episodes, each providing point‑in‑time inputs, hidden ground truth, and a verifier. Experiments show that curated skill packages improve performance significantly, while self‑generated skills offer little benefit, indicating that reliable procedural skills are crucial for effective AI agents in this domain.

By Jermyn Zhen Yong Bek, Zhuang Qiang Bok, Zhongtian Sun
arXiv AI
Sep 18

DataCanvas-EDU: An Agentic Framework for Instructor-Guided Synthetic Data Generation in Business Analytics Education

DataCanvas-EDU is an agentic framework that lets instructors guide the creation of synthetic datasets for business analytics courses. Instructors set teaching goals and desired patterns via conversation, and an AI agent writes generation code, verifies the data, and produces assignments, reference solutions, and rubrics. The process is organized into four phases—Plan, Create, Verify/Test Analysis, and Evaluate—to streamline case preparation and enable students to explore new patterns with AI.

By Bang An, Maria Hamdani, Joseph Fox
arXiv AI
Jun 4

FinTradeBench: A Financial Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs

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