arXiv Computation and Language

The Analyst in the Prompt: Role, Retrieval, and Memory Biases in LLM Financial Analysis

The study examines how user context—such as memory, profiles, and role prompts—affects Large Language Models’ (LLMs) financial analysis. Using 3,575 SEC filings and twelve LLMs, the authors distinguish between evidence selection and interpretation, finding that most context spillover arises from differing interpretations under various roles rather than from retrieving different evidence. They evaluate two mitigation strategies—expressing investor mindset as a user profile instead of an assistant role, and separating evidence-based from personalized outputs—both of which reduce but do not eliminate spillover, with effectiveness varying across models.

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Sep 2

The Analyst in the Prompt: Role, Retrieval, and Memory Biases in LLM Financial Analysis

The paper investigates how user context—such as memory, profiles, and role prompts—affects large language models’ financial analysis. By testing 3,575 SEC filings across twelve LLMs, the study distinguishes between evidence selection and interpretation, finding that interpretation under different roles drives most user-context spillover. Two mitigation strategies—using a user profile instead of an assistant role and separating evidence-based from personalized outputs—reduce but do not eliminate this spillover, with effectiveness varying by model.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

Fin-RATE: A Real-world Financial Analytics and Tracking Evaluation Benchmark for LLMs on SEC Filings

arXiv:2602. 07294v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the increasing deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) in the finance domain, LLMs are increasingly expected to parse complex regulatory disclosures.

By Yidong Jiang, Junrong Chen, Eftychia Makri, Jialin Chen, Peiwen Li, Ali Maatouk, Leandros Tassiulas, Eliot Brenner, Bing Xiang, Rex Ying
arXiv AI
Jul 13

Augmenting Fundamental Analysis with Large Language Models: A RAG-Based System for Generating Investor Briefs

arXiv:2607. 09121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we examine the opportunities brought by Large Language Models (LLMs) to various aspects of fundamental analysis of companies based on their reports as well as data and documents describing macroeconomic situation like GDP and inflation changes as well as documents filled to the U.

By Bartosz Zi\'o{\l}ko, Kacper Dobrzeniewski
arXiv AI
Aug 28

DSA: Evidence-Aware LLM-Agent Orchestration for Multi-Market Stock Research

The paper introduces DSA, an evidence‑aware orchestration framework that uses large language model agents to conduct multi‑market stock research. DSA structures the workflow into stages of evidence acquisition, context construction, model‑routed analysis, optional role and Strategy Skill reasoning, and report generation, offering both a default and an agentic profile with distinct output validation and risk safeguards. The reference implementation supports six regional markets, fifteen Strategy Skills, and multiple execution surfaces, and has passed 1,457 portable offline backend contract tests, confirming implementation conformance.

By Linsen Zhu, Yi Shi
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Do LLMs Make More Mistakes If They Do Not Believe the Input Data?

The study investigates whether large language models (LLMs) are more prone to errors when they doubt the plausibility of input data, a phenomenon termed context‑memory conflict. Using non‑English and low‑resource language datasets, the authors generate text from factual, counterfactual, and fictional RDF triples in English, Czech, Slovak, and Upper Sorbian, and evaluate faithfulness with both human annotations and an LLM judge (Kimi K3). Contrary to expectations, the results show only a weak context‑memory conflict: counterfactual inputs receive slightly lower faithfulness scores than factual ones, and the choice of LLM judge can significantly affect perceived conflict strength.

By Peter Kochelka, Ale\v{s} Manuel Pap\'a\v{c}ek, Vojt\v{e}ch Dvo\v{r}\'ak, Ond\v{r}ej Du\v{s}ek
arXiv AI
Jun 30

When Summaries Distort Decisions: Information Fidelity in LLM-Compressed Financial Analysis

arXiv:2606. 29251v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial decision-makers face more information than they can directly inspect, making context compression necessary.

By Hoyoung Lee, Suhwan Park, Seunghan Lee, Jun Seo, Jaehoon Lee, Sungdong Yoo, Minjae Kim, CheolWon Na, Zhangyang Wang, Zach Golkhou, Minkyu Kim, Sotirios Sabanis, Alejandro Lopez-Lira, Dhagash Mehta, Soonyoung Lee, Chanyeol Choi, Wonbin Ahn, Yongjae Lee