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most citedA Survey of Large Language Models for Financial Applications: Progress, Prospects and Challenges

32 citations · 42 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

TimeSage-EV: A Live Benchmark for Agentic Time Series Analysis in Evolving Environments

Qingren Yao, Yaxuan Kong, Yuqi Nie +6

Time series analysis in high-stakes domains relies on recurring data releases, where new observations can alter the evidence base and the validity of later conclusions. Existing ti…

cs.CL2026

TimeSage-MT: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Time Series Reasoning

Yaxuan Kong, Qingren Yao, Yuqi Nie +7

Time series data inform critical decisions across many real-world domains. While large language model (LLM) agents can analyze data through natural language and tools, it remains u…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Evaluating LLMs in Finance Requires Explicit Bias Consideration

Yaxuan Kong, Hoyoung Lee, Yoontae Hwang +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into financial workflows, but evaluation practice has not kept up. Finance-specific biases can inflate performance, contami…

q-fin.CP2025

Fusing Narrative Semantics for Financial Volatility Forecasting

Yaxuan Kong, Yoontae Hwang, Marcus Kaiser +3

We introduce M2VN: Multi-Modal Volatility Network, a novel deep learning-based framework for financial volatility forecasting that unifies time series features with unstructured ne…

cs.LG2025

Signature-Informed Transformer for Asset Allocation

Yoontae Hwang, Stefan Zohren

Modern deep learning for asset allocation typically separates forecasting from optimization. We argue this creates a fundamental mismatch where minimizing prediction errors fails t…

cs.CL2025

Time-MQA: Time Series Multi-Task Question Answering with Context Enhancement

Yaxuan Kong, Yiyuan Yang, Yoontae Hwang +5

Time series data are foundational in finance, healthcare, and energy domains. However, most existing methods and datasets remain focused on a narrow spectrum of tasks, such as fore…

q-fin.PM2025★ 1 cited

Decision-informed Neural Networks with Large Language Model Integration for Portfolio Optimization

Yoontae Hwang, Yaxuan Kong, Stefan Zohren +1

This paper addresses the critical disconnect between prediction and decision quality in portfolio optimization by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) with decision-focused lea…

cs.LG2025

Achieving Time Series Reasoning Requires Rethinking Model Design, Tasks Formulation, and Evaluation

Yaxuan Kong, Yiyuan Yang, Shiyu Wang +7

Understanding time series data is fundamental to many real-world applications. Recent work explores multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to enhance time series understanding wi…

cs.LG2024★ 8 cited

Unlocking the Power of LSTM for Long Term Time Series Forecasting

Yaxuan Kong, Zepu Wang, Yuqi Nie +5

Traditional recurrent neural network architectures, such as long short-term memory neural networks (LSTM), have historically held a prominent role in time series forecasting (TSF)…

q-fin.CP2024

Temporal Representation Learning for Stock Similarities and Its Applications in Investment Management

Yoontae Hwang, Stefan Zohren, Yongjae Lee

In the era of rapid globalization and digitalization, accurate identification of similar stocks has become increasingly challenging due to the non-stationary nature of financial ma…

q-fin.GN2024★ 32 cited

A Survey of Large Language Models for Financial Applications: Progress, Prospects and Challenges

Yuqi Nie, Yaxuan Kong, Xiaowen Dong +4

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have unlocked novel opportunities for machine learning applications in the financial domain. These models have demonstrated remarkab…