FinTral: A Family of GPT-4 Level Multimodal Financial Large Language Models (2024.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | FinTral is a suite of state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (LLMs) built upon the Mistral-7b model and tailored for financial analysis. |
| Approach: | They introduce FinTral, a suite of state-of-the-art multimodal large language models built upon the Mistral-7b model and tailored for financial analysis. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms ChatGPT-3.5 and GPT-4 in five out of nine tasks and surpasses GPT-4.5 in five of nine task evaluations. |
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