Enhancing Financial Question Answering with a Multi-Agent Reflection Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21741v1
• Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 04:58:07 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Financial Question Answering with a Multi-Agent Reflection Framework
• Authors: Sorouralsadat Fatemi, Yuheng Hu,
• Abstract summary: We propose a multi-agent framework incorporating a critic agent that reflects on the reasoning steps and final answers for each question. Our results indicate that this framework significantly improves performance compared to single-agent reasoning. Our framework performs on par with, and in some cases surpasses, larger single-agent LLMs such as LLaMA3.1-405B and GPT-4o-mini.
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• Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in numerous Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, they still struggle with financial question answering (QA), particularly when numerical reasoning is required. Recently, LLM-based multi-agent frameworks have demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in multi-step reasoning, which is crucial for financial QA tasks as it involves extracting relevant information from tables and text and then performing numerical reasoning on the extracted data to infer answers. In this study, we propose a multi-agent framework incorporating a critic agent that reflects on the reasoning steps and final answers for each question. Additionally, we enhance our system by adding multiple critic agents, each focusing on a specific aspect of the answer. Our results indicate that this framework significantly improves performance compared to single-agent reasoning, with an average performance increase of 15% for the LLaMA3-8B model and 5% for the LLaMA3-70B model. Furthermore, our framework performs on par with, and in some cases surpasses, larger single-agent LLMs such as LLaMA3.1-405B and GPT-4o-mini, though it falls slightly short compared to Claude-3.5 Sonnet. Overall, our framework presents an effective solution to enhance open-source LLMs for financial QA tasks, offering a cost-effective alternative to larger models like Claude-3.5 Sonnet.

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