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Haoxue Wang

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QuantMind: A Context-Engineering Based Knowledge Framework for Quantitative Finance

Quantitative research increasingly relies on unstructured financial content such as filings, earnings calls, and research notes, yet existing LLM and RAG pipelines struggle with point-in-time correctness, evidence attribution, and integration into research workflows. To tackle this, We present QuantMind, an intelligent knowledge extraction and retrieval framework tailored to quantitative finance. QuantMind adopts a two-stage architecture: (i) a knowledge extraction stage that transforms heterogeneous documents into structured knowledge through multi-modal parsing of text, tables, and formulas, adaptive summarization for scalability, and domain-specific tagging for fine-grained indexing; and (ii) an intelligent retrieval stage that integrates semantic search with flexible strategies, multi-hop reasoning across sources, and knowledge-aware generation for auditable outputs. A controlled user study demonstrates that QuantMind improves both factual accuracy and user experience compared to unaided reading and generic AI assistance, underscoring the value of structured, domain-specific context engineering for finance.

cs.CE

Towards Data-Centric Automatic R&D

The progress of humanity is driven by those successful discoveries accompanied by countless failed experiments. Researchers often seek the potential research directions by reading and then verifying them through experiments. The process imposes a significant burden on researchers. In the past decade, the data-driven black-box deep learning method has demonstrated its effectiveness in a wide range of real-world scenarios, which exacerbates the experimental burden of researchers and thus renders the potential successful discoveries veiled. Therefore, automating such a research and development (R&D) process is an urgent need. In this paper, we serve as the first effort to formalize the goal by proposing a Real-world Data-centric automatic R&D Benchmark, namely RD2Bench. RD2Bench benchmarks all the operations in data-centric automatic R&D (D-CARD) as a whole to navigate future work toward our goal directly. We focus on evaluating the interaction and synergistic effects of various model capabilities and aiding in selecting well-performing trustworthy models. Although RD2Bench is very challenging to the state-of-the-art (SOTA) large language model (LLM) named GPT-4, indicating ample research opportunities and more research efforts, LLMs possess promising potential to bring more significant development to D-CARD: They are able to implement some simple methods without adopting any additional techniques. We appeal to future work to take developing techniques for tackling automatic R&D into consideration, thus bringing the opportunities of the potential revolutionary upgrade to human productivity.

cs.AI

Collaborative Evolving Strategy for Automatic Data-Centric Development

Artificial Intelligence (AI) significantly influences many fields, largely thanks to the vast amounts of high-quality data for machine learning models. The emphasis is now on a data-centric AI strategy, prioritizing data development over model design progress. Automating this process is crucial. In this paper, we serve as the first work to introduce the automatic data-centric development (AD^2) task and outline its core challenges, which require domain-experts-like task scheduling and implementation capability, largely unexplored by previous work. By leveraging the strong complex problem-solving capabilities of large language models (LLMs), we propose an LLM-based autonomous agent, equipped with a strategy named Collaborative Knowledge-STudying-Enhanced Evolution by Retrieval (Co-STEER), to simultaneously address all the challenges. Specifically, our proposed Co-STEER agent enriches its domain knowledge through our proposed evolving strategy and develops both its scheduling and implementation skills by accumulating and retrieving domain-specific practical experience. With an improved schedule, the capability for implementation accelerates. Simultaneously, as implementation feedback becomes more thorough, the scheduling accuracy increases. These two capabilities evolve together through practical feedback, enabling a collaborative evolution process. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our Co-STEER agent breaks new ground in AD^2 research, possesses strong evolvable schedule and implementation ability, and demonstrates the significant effectiveness of its components. Our Co-STEER paves the way for AD^2 advancements.

cs.AI

CatBoost model with synthetic features in application to loan risk assessment of small businesses

Loan risk for small businesses has long been a complex problem worthy of exploring. Predicting the loan risk can benefit entrepreneurship by developing more jobs for the society. CatBoost (Categorical Boosting) is a powerful machine learning algorithm suitable for dataset with many categorical variables like the dataset for forecasting loan risk. In this paper, we identify the important risk factors that contribute to loan status classification problem. Then we compare the performance between boosting-type algorithms(especially CatBoost) with other traditional yet popular ones. The dataset we adopt in the research comes from the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and holds a very large sample size (899,164 observations and 27 features). In order to make the best use of the important features in the dataset, we propose a technique named "synthetic generation" to develop more combined features based on arithmetic operation, which ends up improving the accuracy and AUC of the original CatBoost model. We obtain a high accuracy of 95.84% and well-performed AUC of 98.80% compared with the existent literature of related research.

cs.CE