FLAG-TRADER: Fusion LLM-Agent with Gradient-based Reinforcement Learning for Financial Trading (2025.findings-acl)
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Guojun Xiong, Zhiyang Deng, Keyi Wang, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yangyang Yu, Xueqing Peng, Mingquan Lin, Kaleb E Smith, Xiao-Yang Liu, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou, Qianqian Xie
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have impressive reasoning capabilities in financial tasks, but struggle with multi-step, goal-oriented scenarios in interactive financial markets. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates large language models with gradient-driven reinforcement learning (RL) policy optimization. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance in trading and other financial domain tasks. |
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