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<item><title>Thin Evidence, Thick Priors: How Language Models Substitute Identity for Missing Financial Facts</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2610.07798/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2610.07798/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>When financial facts are withdrawn from prompts, identity attributes explain 96% of variation in equity allocation advice from a language model, replacing missing evidence.</description></item>
<item><title>MintEval: Do LLMs Implement the Trading Strategy You Asked For? A Behavioural-Equivalence Benchmark for Natural-Language-to-Strategy Code</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2610.03080/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2610.03080/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Introduces a benchmark that compares LLM-generated trading code to reference strategies bar by bar on identical data, revealing silent failures in implementation despite passing functional tests.</description></item>
<item><title>Large Language Models and Information Frictions in Corporate Bonds</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7577906/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7577906/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Shows that large-language-model scores of default risk from earnings calls predict bond rating migration one year ahead where analysts disagreed, capturing information not yet priced in spreads.</description></item>
<item><title>Geoeconomic Fear and Sovereign Spreads</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7580558/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7580558/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The study constructs a geoeconomic fear index from news articles and finds that higher fear predicts wider emerging-market sovereign spreads, especially for speculative-grade issuers.</description></item>
<item><title>Resolving the Missing Financial Data Crisis: A Generative AI Pipeline for SEC 10-K Extraction</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.35864/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.35864/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Large language models outperform traditional methods at extracting missing financial data from SEC filings, with accuracy improving as model size matches document complexity.</description></item>
<item><title>Transformer-based CoVaR: Systemic Risk in Textual Information</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/bri-uobdis-26-840/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/bri-uobdis-26-840/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Integrating financial news embeddings from large language models with market data, the study improves systemic risk forecasts using conditional value-at-risk without requiring large datasets.</description></item>
<item><title>One advisor for the whole world? Cross-country evidence on financial advice from large language models</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/zbw-safewp-343061/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/zbw-safewp-343061/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Large language models provide nearly identical portfolio advice across twenty-one countries despite local differences, following retail finance conventions rather than academic prescriptions and ignoring household balance sheets.</description></item>
<item><title>Financial Language Models as Applied Artificial Intelligence Systems for News-Based Trading under Market Frictions</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.23703/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.23703/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Introduces a market-friction-aware framework that converts timestamped financial news into auditable trading decisions while accounting for execution timing, transaction costs, and liquidity constraints.</description></item>
<item><title>From Tone to Trajectory: Continuous Sentiment and the Shape of Monetary Policy Communication</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.25034/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.25034/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The study shows that how monetary policy sentiment unfolds across a press conference, not just its average tone, predicts rate changes and shapes forecaster expectations at the ECB and Fed.</description></item>
<item><title>FinInteract: Benchmarking Clarification and Intent Integration in Ambiguous Financial Question Answering</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.24002/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.24002/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A benchmark reveals that language models answer financial questions above 90 percent with clarification but only 28.9 percent when they must elicit it themselves, exposing model ambiguity resolution.</description></item>
<item><title>FinRankGRPO: Optimizing LLMs for Listwise Financial Asset Ranking via Group Relative Policy Optimization</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.24175/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2609.24175/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Develops a two-stage framework that fine-tunes language models for listwise asset ranking using Spearman rank correlation rewards, achieving a Sharpe ratio of 0.636 on asset allocation.</description></item>
<item><title>LLM-Based Semantic Surprises in FOMC Communication: Asset Prices and Financial-Market Stress</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7519200/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/7519200/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Semantic surprises extracted from Federal Reserve statements predict subsequent financial-stress dynamics and reduce forecast error by up to 23%, particularly when initial stress is high or during recessions.</description></item>
<item><title>Transforming the Voice of the Customer: Large Language Models for Identifying Customer Needs</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2503.01870/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2503.01870/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Large Language Models are streamlining the process of identifying customer needs, letting analysts concentrate on more valuable work while still delivering precise insights.</description></item>
<item><title>Twitter Sentiment and Financial Trends</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4467949/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/ssrn/4467949/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A new financial sentiment index derived from Twitter data shows strong links to market conditions and can forecast stock market returns, particularly in response to changes in U.S. monetary policy.</description></item>
<item><title>Measuring Corruption from Text Data</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2512.09652/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2512.09652/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An automated corruption index using Brazilian municipal audit reports is efficient and more reliable than manual methods in detecting corruption.</description></item>
<item><title>Reasoning Models Ace the CFA Exams</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2512.08270/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2512.08270/</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>An evaluation of reasoning models on CFA mock exams shows that models like Gemini 3.0 Pro and GPT-5 perform well, achieving high pass rates in professional testing.</description></item>
<item><title>Standard Occupation Classifier - A Natural Language Processing Approach</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2511.23057/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2511.23057/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>A project successfully developed a natural language processing model that classifies job ads with 72% accuracy by using an ensemble approach.</description></item>
<item><title>Measuring economic outlook in the news</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2511.04299/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2511.04299/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>We build an interpretable, privacy‑friendly sentiment indicator from Swiss news using ML and LLMs, and it improves short‑term GDP forecasts.</description></item>
<item><title>Aligning Multilingual News for Stock Return Prediction</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19203/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19203/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Uses optimal-transport to align English–Japanese stock news, producing clearer signals that better predict returns.</description></item>
<item><title>Black Box Absorption: LLMs Undermining Innovative Ideas</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.20612/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.20612/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>LLM platforms can quietly absorb users’ ideas, creating power imbalances; the paper proposes governance and technical fixes to protect creators.</description></item>
<item><title>Integrating Transparent Models, LLMs, and Practitioner-in-the-Loop: A Case of Nonprofit Program Evaluation</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19799/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19799/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Combining transparent decision trees, LLMs, and practitioner input yields accurate, explainable case-level predictions for public and nonprofit programs.</description></item>
<item><title>News-Aware Direct Reinforcement Trading for Financial Markets</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19173/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.19173/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>- News-RL Trading - News-Driven Trading - News-Based RL - RL for News Trading - News-Powered RL If you want the shortest single choice: News-RL Trading.: Short summary: Feeding news sentiment extracted by large language models together with raw price and volume into a sequence-model reinforcement learning system boosts cryptocurrency trading performance, removing the need for handcrafted trading rules.</description></item>
<item><title>Abstract Classification: SVM vs BERT vs GPT-3.5</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/spr-scient-v-130-y-2025-i-1-d-10-1007-s11192-024-05217-7/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/spr-scient-v-130-y-2025-i-1-d-10-1007-s11192-024-05217-7/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>SVM vs BERT vs GPT-3.5: Compares SVM, SPECTER, BERT, and GPT-3.5 for classifying abstracts: BERT performs best, while GPT-3.5 is inconsistent with limited training data.</description></item>
<item><title>From Classical Rationality to Contextual Reasoning: Quantum Logic as a New Frontier for Human-Centric AI in Finance</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.05475/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.05475/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The potential of quantum logic in advancing artificial intelligence applications in financial modeling is discussed.</description></item>
<item><title>From News to Returns: A Granger-Causal Hypergraph Transformer on the Sphere</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.04357/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2510.04357/</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The research suggests the CSHT, a new architecture for financial time-series forecasting that considers the impact of financial news and sentiment on asset returns, providing robust generalisation across market regimes and clear attribution pathways.</description></item>
<item><title>Extracting the Structure of Press Releases for Predicting Earnings Announcement Returns</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/doi/10-1145-3768292-3770344/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/doi/10-1145-3768292-3770344/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The research explores the predictive power of textual features in earnings press releases on stock returns, concluding that press release content is as informative as earnings surprise, with FinBERT being the most predictive.</description></item>
<item><title>The (Short-Term) Effects of Large Language Models on Unemployment and Earnings</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.15510/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.15510/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Large Language Models like ChatGPT have boosted earnings for workers in certain occupations without affecting unemployment rates, indicating they enhance income rather than replace jobs.</description></item>
<item><title>Context-Aware Language Models for Forecasting Market Impact from Sequences of Financial News</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.12519/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.12519/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The study suggests using large language models to process financial news and small models to encode historical context, resulting in improved simulated investment performance.</description></item>
<item><title>Trading-R1: Financial Trading with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.11420/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2509.11420/</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>The article presents Trading-R1, a finance-focused AI model that aligns with trading principles, showing it offers better risk-adjusted returns and fewer drawdowns than other models.</description></item>
<item><title>FinReflectKG: Agentic Construction and Evaluation of Financial Knowledge Graphs</title><link>https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2508.17906/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/arxiv/2508.17906/</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><description>Financial Knowledge Graph Construction: The paper introduces a large-scale financial knowledge graph dataset from SEC 10-K filings of S and P 100 companies, with a reflection-agent-based mode providing the best balance of efficiency, accuracy, and reliability.</description></item>
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