FinHEAR: Human Expertise and Adaptive Risk-Aware Temporal Reasoning for Financial Decision-Making (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Large language models often overlook key behavioral patterns underlying human financial behavior. |
| Approach: | FinHEAR is a multi-agent framework for human expertise and Adaptive Risk-aware reasoning. |
| Outcome: | FinHEAR outperforms baseline models in trend forecasting and decision-making. |
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