arXiv:2607. 00856v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In recent years, large language models have achieved remarkable success and have seen growing adoption in financial applications.
By Dangxing Chen, Pengzhan Guo
arXiv:2606. 12360v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language-model post-training is the main stage at which model behavior is shaped, yet it still largely involves optimization of scalar rewards that summarize diverse desiderata.
By Leon Bergen, Usha Bhalla, Sidharth Baskaran, Max Loeffler, Raphael Sarfati, Dhruvil Gala, Ryan Panwar, Santiago Aranguri, Thomas Fel, Atticus Geiger, Matthew Kowal, Siddharth Boppana, Daniel Balsam, Owen Lewis, Jack Merullo, Thomas McGrath, Ekdeep Singh Lubana
Language-model post-training is the main stage at which model behavior is shaped, yet it still largely involves optimization of scalar rewards that summarize diverse desiderata. This abstraction gives practitioners little visibility into what their data actually teaches models, allowing spurious correlations to be learned by a model and inducing undesirable behaviors such as over-stylization and sycophancy.
arXiv:2608. 09834v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial sentiment analysis converts unstructured financial news into quantitative signals that can support market analysis and decision-making.
By Fan Zhang, Jiaming Li
arXiv:2607. 26368v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Financial disclosures contain numerical claims, temporal statements, entity references, policy commitments, and risk descriptions that may conflict in qualitatively different ways.
By Aman Kumar, Lasitha Vidyaratne, Dipanjan D Ghosh, Arnab Chakrabarti, Ahmed K Farahat
arXiv:2605. 18147v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predictive models play a pivotal role in credit risk management, guiding critical decisions through accurate estimation of default probabilities and losses.
By Bart Baesens, Andreas Goethals, Stefan Lessmann, Simon De Vos, Cristi\'an Bravo, David Martens, Victor Medina-Olivares, Christophe Mues, Maria Oskarsd\'ottir, Seppe vanden Broucke, Tony Van Gestel, Tim Verdonck, Wouter Verbeke
arXiv:2505. 24622v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many high-stakes screening tasks require predicting rare outcomes from unstructured text, where errors are costly and decisions must be auditable.
By Ben Griffin, Aaron Ontoyin Yin, Diego Vidaurre, Ugur Koyluoglu, Joseph Ternasky, Fuat Alican, Yigit Ihlamur
arXiv:2607. 09502v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explaining machine-learning models is increasingly important for decision-making and consumer trust, yet it is widely believed to come at a cost: existing Explainable AI (XAI) methods suffer from a persistent accuracy-explainability trade-off.
By Pan Li
We present an interpretable machine learning pipeline to decompose Cross-Sectional Equity Return Predictability into auditable factor contribution. We apply an XGBoost model with TreeSHAP attribution and conduct stress testing on 3632 Chinese A-share stocks from 2009 until 2019.
arXiv:2604. 27374v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As LLMs become credible readers of earnings calls, investor-relations Q\&A, guidance, and disclosure language, supervised financial NLP benchmarks increasingly function as decision evidence for model selection and deployment.
By Sidi Chang, Peiying Zhu, Yuxiao Chen, Rongdong Chai
arXiv:2608. 11785v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for financial analysis and trading, but direct trading remains challenging because the predictive capabilities required can vary across assets, decision fields, and market conditions.
By Chang Zhou, Xingtong Yu, Minbin Huang, Zhennan Wu, Yuan Fang, Hong Cheng, Xinming Zhang
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