arXiv Computation and Language

FinExam-10K: When Retrieval Helps Financial Reasoning?

FinExam-10K is a new English benchmark for financial reasoning, comprising 10,198 expert‑reannotated questions covering CFA Levels I‑III and FRM Parts I‑II. The dataset is split into a 5,110‑question release and a 5,088‑question held‑out set for a quarterly leaderboard, with separate Full‑Coverage and Context‑Complete Reasoning tracks. Across 17 models, the best overall accuracy is 85.29 %, but performance drops on harder subsets, and retrieval‑augmented methods like Function‑Graph‑RAG provide modest gains when gated appropriately.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

FinRiskAtlas: Decision-Aligned Evaluation of Large Language Models for Financial Risk Review

FinRiskAtlas is a Chinese-language benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) for financial risk review by focusing on decision‑aligned tasks rather than generic financial knowledge. It contains 9,742 instances across 53 task families, including 42 domain‑knowledge families and 11 downstream review operations defined by explicit evaluation contracts. The extended FinRisk‑Ask framework replays 680 pre‑action states from 104 professional trajectories, withholding future evidence during inference to assess evidence‑state control and request targeting. Results across 33 model configurations show that operation‑level evaluation yields distinct rankings and that knowledge‑based shortlisting can incur significant regret, while frequent use of the Ask branch does not necessarily improve evidence acquisition, highlighting gaps in broad financial capability scores.

By Suyang Zhong, Jingzhe Zhu, Qi Xu, Liyao Sun, Yin Wang, Qingqing Sun, Shuai Chen, Tianyi Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

FinTrace: Holistic Trajectory-Level Evaluation of LLM Tool Calling for Long-Horizon Financial Tasks

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 AI
Aug 28

CIFQA: A Deterministic Tool-Grounded Multi-Agent LLM Framework for Financial Query Answering

CIFQA is a deterministic, tool‑grounded multi‑agent framework that separates language understanding from numerical execution for financial question answering. It assigns specialized agents for interpretation, routing, parameter extraction, computation planning, and response generation, while deterministic Python tools perform the calculations. On a fixed‑deposit benchmark, CIFQA achieves 95.54% accuracy on calculation‑intensive queries and 90.87% overall, outperforming larger LLM baselines and showing that architecture, not scale, drives numerical reliability.

By Kunjesh Parekh, Anil Kumar Tiwari, Divya Saxena
arXiv AI
Aug 11

Reproducing and Stress-Testing Two Approaches to LLM Reasoning Reliability: Test-Time Probability Aggregation and Logic-Representation Editing

arXiv:2608. 08514v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We independently reproduce two recent methods for making large language model (LLM) reasoning more reliable, and stress-test them across domains and models (RPC across four new task domains with Qwen3-8B, LCF across four 7-8B models).

By Minhan Cho, Jimin Kweon
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Overview of FinMMEval 2026 Task 2: Multilingual Financial Short-Answer Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 19867v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: FinMMEval 2026 Task 2 evaluates short-answer financial question answering over multilingual evidence.

By Zhuohan Xie, Xueqing Peng, Georgi Georgiev, Dimitar Dimitrov, Yuyang Dai, Rania Elbadry, Vanshikaa Jani, Lingfei Qian, Fan Zhang, Jimin Huang, Jiahui Geng, Yankai Chen, Ye Yuan, Haolun Wu, Yuxia Wang, Ivan Koychev, Veselin Stoyanov, Mingzi Song, Yu Chen, Xue Liu, Preslav Nakov
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

FinRCA-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence Retrieval and Reasoning for Financial AI Systems

FinRCA-Bench is a synthetic benchmark designed to evaluate evidence retrieval and reasoning in financial AI systems, specifically for accounts‑payable‑to‑bank reconciliation. It contains 2,250 cases across 14 operational tables, with 1,500 injected failures in 15 causal categories and 750 hard‑negative cases, and hides root‑cause labels and evidence contracts to isolate retrieval performance. Experiments show that retrieval architecture dramatically affects accuracy, with structured retrieval methods like Typed Provenance Graph Retrieval vastly improving macro‑recall and exact‑class accuracy compared to dense semantic retrieval or classical ML.