arXiv Machine Learning July 31, 2026 By Giorgos Iacovides, Wuyang Zhou, Danilo Mandic

FinSMART: Financial Sentiment Analysis for Algorithmic Trading through Market-Aligned Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2607. 28127v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Generative AI have substantially improved financial sentiment analysis through post-trained financial large language models (LLMs).

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