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New distillation method enhances financial reasoning in smaller LLMs

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Researchers have developed a novel method called Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation to improve financial reasoning in smaller language models. This technique uses execution-verified Python programs, rather than natural language rationales, to transfer knowledge from larger teacher models to compact student models. The approach ensures high-quality supervision by retaining only programs that execute correctly and produce the gold answer, and includes an iterative recovery stage for failed examples. Experiments on the TAT-QA dataset demonstrated that a 7B student model trained with this method significantly outperformed its 72B teacher model and other baselines, achieving state-of-the-art results. AI

IMPACT This method could enable smaller, more efficient models to perform complex financial reasoning tasks, reducing computational costs and increasing accessibility.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yun Dong, Erica Zhao, Elana Chen ·

    Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation for Financial Reasoning over Hybrid Tables and Text

    arXiv:2607.14709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Financial question answering over hybrid tabular and textual data may require multi-source reasoning and precise numerical computation. While large language models (LLMs) can generate intermediate reasoning steps, natural-language r…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Elana Chen ·

    Gold-Guided Programmatic Distillation for Financial Reasoning over Hybrid Tables and Text

    Financial question answering over hybrid tabular and textual data may require multi-source reasoning and precise numerical computation. While large language models (LLMs) can generate intermediate reasoning steps, natural-language rationales remain prone to arithmetic errors, mak…

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