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Artem Sakhno

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arXiv2026

AdaMem: Adaptive Memory Token Allocation for Soft Compression in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves language models with retrieved evidence, but processing many long passages is costly and can introduce distracting information. Soft compression addresses this challenge by encoding passages as compact sequences of continuous memory embeddings before generation. However, existing methods typically assign each retained passage an identical number of memory embeddings, irrespective of its query-specific relevance. To address this, we propose AdaMem, a relevance-guided soft-compression framework that maps learned passage-relevance estimates to a query-dependent allocation of a fixed memory-token budget. A shared query-conditioned compressor produces both continuous passage memories and relevance scores in a single pass; a deterministic allocation rule assigns more memory tokens to higher-scoring passages and can omit low-scoring ones. Across six open-domain QA benchmarks, AdaMem consistently outperforms OSCAR (the closely matched soft-compression baseline that uses uniform allocation) as well as other soft-compression methods at matched memory budgets. Under standard 16$\times$ compression, AdaMem improves sub-string match by up to 3.2 points (5.5%) over uniform allocation baseline, with an average relative gain of 3.4%; under aggressive 64$\times$ compression the average relative gain grows to 14.6%, with a maximum of 9.8 points (19.7%) on PopQA. AdaMem matches the answer quality of the uncompressed at up to 4$\times$ lower inference latency than full context baseline. AdaMem retains an efficiency profile comparable to the uniform-compression baseline, while achieving up to $4\times$ lower inference latency than full-context inference. Thus, relevance-guided memory allocation is particularly effective when retrieval pools are large and the available memory budget is tight.

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arXiv2026

Financial Transaction Retrieval and Contextual Evidence for Knowledge-Grounded Reasoning

Nowadays, success of financial organizations heavily depends on their ability to process digital traces generated by their clients, e.g., transaction histories, gathered from various sources to improve user modeling pipelines. As general-purpose LLMs struggle with time-distributed tabular data, production stacks still depend on specialized tabular and sequence models with limited transferability and need for labeled data. To address this, we introduce FinTRACE, a retrieval-first architecture that converts raw transactions into reusable feature representations, applies rule-based detectors, and stores the resulting signals in a behavioral knowledge base with graded associations to the objectives of downstream tasks. Across public and industrial benchmarks, FinTRACE substantially improves low-supervision transaction analytics, doubling zero-shot MCC on churn prediction performance from 0.19 to 0.38 and improving 16-shot MCC from 0.25 to 0.40. We further use FinTRACE to ground LLMs via instruction tuning on retrieved behavioral patterns, achieving state-of-the-art LLM results on transaction analytics problems.

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arXiv2026

Embedding-Aware Feature Discovery: Bridging Latent Representations and Interpretable Features in Event Sequences

Industrial financial systems operate on temporal event sequences such as transactions, user actions, and system logs. While recent research emphasizes representation learning and large language models, production systems continue to rely heavily on handcrafted statistical features due to their interpretability, robustness under limited supervision, and strict latency constraints. This creates a persistent disconnect between learned embeddings and feature-based pipelines. We introduce Embedding-Aware Feature Discovery (EAFD), a unified framework that bridges this gap by coupling pretrained event-sequence embeddings with a self-reflective LLM-driven feature generation agent. EAFD iteratively discovers, evaluates, and refines features directly from raw event sequences using two complementary criteria: \emph{alignment}, which explains information already encoded in embeddings, and \emph{complementarity}, which identifies predictive signals missing from them. Across both open-source and industrial transaction benchmarks, EAFD consistently outperforms embedding-only and feature-based baselines, achieving relative gains of up to $+5.8\%$ over state-of-the-art pretrained embeddings, resulting in new state-of-the-art performance across event-sequence datasets.

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arXiv2025

LATTE: Learning Aligned Transactions and Textual Embeddings for Bank Clients

Learning clients embeddings from sequences of their historic communications is central to financial applications. While large language models (LLMs) offer general world knowledge, their direct use on long event sequences is computationally expensive and impractical in real-world pipelines. In this paper, we propose LATTE, a contrastive learning framework that aligns raw event embeddings with semantic embeddings from frozen LLMs. Behavioral features are summarized into short prompts, embedded by the LLM, and used as supervision via contrastive loss. The proposed approach significantly reduces inference cost and input size compared to conventional processing of complete sequence by LLM. We experimentally show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art techniques for learning event sequence representations on real-world financial datasets while remaining deployable in latency-sensitive environments.

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