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Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL)

The growing complexity of financial language models (LLMs) demands evaluations that go beyond general NLP benchmarks. Traditional leaderboards often focus on broader tasks like translation or summarization, but they fall short of addressing the specific needs of the finance industry. Financial tasks such as predicting stock movements, assessing credit risks, and extracting information from financial reports present unique challenges, requiring models with specialized capabilities. This is why we created the Open Financial LLM Leaderboard (OFLL).

Why OFLL?

OFLL provides a specialized evaluation framework tailored specifically to the financial sector. It fills a critical gap by offering a transparent, one-stop solution to assess model readiness for real-world financial applications. The leaderboard focuses on tasks that matter most to finance professionals—information extraction from financial documents, market sentiment analysis, and financial trend forecasting.

Key Differentiators

• Comprehensive Financial Task Coverage: Unlike general LLM leaderboards that evaluate broad NLP capabilities, OFLL focuses exclusively on tasks directly relevant to finance. These include information extraction, sentiment analysis, credit risk scoring, and stock movement forecasting—tasks crucial for real-world financial decision-making.

• Real-World Financial Relevance: OFLL uses datasets that represent real-world challenges in the finance industry. This ensures models are not only tested on general NLP tasks but are also evaluated on their ability to handle complex financial data, making them suitable for industry applications.

• Focused Zero-Shot Evaluation: OFLL employs a zero-shot evaluation method, testing models on unseen financial tasks without prior fine-tuning. This highlights a model’s ability to generalize and perform well in financial contexts, such as predicting stock price movements or extracting entities from regulatory filings, without being explicitly trained on these tasks.

Key Features of OFLL

Diverse Task Categories: OFLL covers tasks across seven categories: Information Extraction (IE), Textual Analysis (TA), Question Answering (QA), Text Generation (TG), Risk Management (RM), Forecasting (FO), and Decision-Making (DM).

• Robust Evaluation Metrics: Models are assessed using various metrics, including Accuracy, F1 Score, ROUGE Score, and Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC). These metrics provide a multidimensional view of model performance, helping users identify the strengths and weaknesses of each model.

The Open Financial LLM Leaderboard aims to set a new standard in evaluating the capabilities of language models in the financial domain, offering a specialized, real-world-focused benchmarking solution.