arXiv AI

Reading Is Not Using: Retrieval, Judgment, and the Design of AI Financial Research Workflows

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 4

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.

By Ahmed Asaad, Amr Mohamed, Yang Zhang, Omneya Abdelsalam
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
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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 22

IPO Finance Agent: Evaluation of LLM Financial Analysts beyond Finance Agent v2, with Automated Rubric Generation -- the Case of the SpaceX (SPCX) IPO

Finance Agent v2 (by Vals AI) has emerged as the reference benchmark for evaluating both Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT frontier language models on financial tasks. However, it narrowly deals with periodic reporting from publicly traded companies (SEC 10-K and 10-Q filings), and its agentic harness relies on naive, unenriched chunk retrieval.

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 29

Diagnosing Fine-Grained Inconsistency Classification in Financial Disclosure Text

Financial disclosures contain numerical claims, temporal statements, entity references, policy commitments, and risk descriptions that may conflict in qualitatively different ways. Detecting a conflict is only the first step: review workflows may also need to determine its type, since numerical, temporal, referential, factual, and normative inconsistencies require different evidence and downstream checks.

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