LinqAlpha AI Lab

We advance Alpha Intelligence — AI that understands financial information,
identifies meaningful market signals, and translates them into reliable investment insights and decisions.

We advance Alpha Intelligence — AI that understands financial information, identifies meaningful market signals, and translates them into reliable investment insights and decisions.

Built with researchers across leading financial institutions, AI organizations, and universities, and validated through peer review at leading academic venues.

Research Topics

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Understanding Alpha Intelligence

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Measuring Alpha Intelligence

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Building Alpha Intelligence

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers and technical reports from the LinqAlpha AI Lab.

EMNLP 2026 Industry Track

Fund2Persona: A Framework for Building and Refining Financial Advisor Personas from Fund Disclosure Data

On 69 active U.S. equity funds, AI personas built from disclosures reproduced manager calls with macro-F1 0.410 vs 0.334 and were preferred over a generic advisor in 69% of judged comparisons.

Why it matters: An AI advisor can learn and apply a real fund's investment philosophy.

EMNLP 2026 Industry Track

When Summaries Distort Decisions: Information Fidelity in LLM-Compressed Financial Analysis

LLM summaries of MD&A sections and earnings calls flipped the bull or bear call 24 to 32% of the time; source-checked summary selection cut flips by 20 to 38%.

Why it matters: A summary can be accurate sentence by sentence and still reverse the investment call.

ACM ICAIF 2025

Your AI, Not Your View: The Bias of LLMs in Investment Analysis

Six LLMs showed consistent sector, size and contrarian preferences and held on to them even against counter-evidence.

Why it matters: Undeclared model priors can quietly override a fund mandate. This paper powers our LLM Investment Bias Leaderboard.

ACM ICAIF 2025 · NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Generative AI in Finance

FinAgentBench: A Benchmark Dataset for Agentic Retrieval in Financial Question Answering

26K expert-annotated examples testing whether LLMs pick the right filing, then the right passage, across S&P 500 companies.

Why it matters: Measures whether AI searches filings the way an analyst does.

ACM ICAIF 2025 · ICLR 2025 Workshop on Advances in Financial AI

FinDER: Financial Dataset for Question Answering and Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation

5,703 expert-annotated query, evidence and answer triplets from 10-K filings, written the terse, jargon-heavy way analysts actually ask.

Why it matters: Tests retrieval on questions as professionals really phrase them.

SIGIR 2025 Workshop on Financial Information Retrieval (FinIR)

Structuring the Unstructured: A Multi-Agent System for Extracting and Querying Financial KPIs and Guidance

An extraction agent and a text-to-SQL agent turn KPIs and guidance in filings and calls into queryable data.

Why it matters: Removes manual spreadsheeting of guidance and KPIs from disclosures.

Technical Report 2024

Linq-Embed-Mistral

Our embedding model ranked #1 for retrieval on the MTEB leaderboard (score 60.2, May 2024).

Why it matters: Retrieval quality sets the ceiling for grounded research answers.

NAACL 2024 Student Research Workshop

Improving Multi-lingual Alignment Through Soft Contrastive Learning

Trains multilingual embeddings to match a monolingual teacher, beating hard-label contrastive learning on bitext mining and semantic similarity.

Why it matters: Better cross-language retrieval across global filings and research.

ICLR 2024 Workshop on Reliable and Responsible Foundation Models

Re-Ex: Revising after Explanation Reduces the Factual Errors in LLM Responses

Retrieve evidence, have the model explain its own errors, then revise; fewer factual errors at lower token cost than prior methods.

Why it matters: Fewer factual errors where precision is non-negotiable.

EMNLP 2023 Workshop on Natural Legal Language Processing

Retrieval-based Evaluation for LLMs: A Case Study in Korean Legal QA

Eval-RAG grades LLM answers against retrieved documents and agrees more closely with expert judgments than other evaluators.

Why it matters: Evidence-grounded checking of AI answers in expert domains.