FinLoRA: Benchmarking LoRA Methods for Fine-Tuning LLMs on Financial Datasets

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Hauptverfasser: Wang, Dannong, Patel, Jaisal, Zha, Daochen, Yang, Steve Y., Liu, Xiao-Yang
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author Wang, Dannong
Patel, Jaisal
Zha, Daochen
Yang, Steve Y.
Liu, Xiao-Yang
author_facet Wang, Dannong
Patel, Jaisal
Zha, Daochen
Yang, Steve Y.
Liu, Xiao-Yang
contents Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) methods show great potential for scaling pre-trained general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) to hundreds or thousands of use scenarios. However, their efficacy in high-stakes domains like finance is rarely explored, e.g., passing CFA exams and analyzing SEC filings. In this paper, we present the open-source FinLoRA project that benchmarks LoRA methods on both general and highly professional financial tasks. First, we curated 19 datasets covering diverse financial applications; in particular, we created four novel XBRL analysis datasets based on 150 SEC filings. Second, we evaluated five LoRA methods and five base LLMs. Finally, we provide extensive experimental results in terms of accuracy, F1, and BERTScore and report computational cost in terms of time and GPU memory during fine-tuning and inference stages. We find that LoRA methods achieved substantial performance gains of 36\% on average over base models. Our FinLoRA project provides an affordable and scalable approach to democratize financial intelligence to the general public. Datasets, LoRA adapters, code, and documentation are available at https://github.com/Open-Finance-Lab/FinLoRA
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spellingShingle FinLoRA: Benchmarking LoRA Methods for Fine-Tuning LLMs on Financial Datasets
Wang, Dannong
Patel, Jaisal
Zha, Daochen
Yang, Steve Y.
Liu, Xiao-Yang
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) methods show great potential for scaling pre-trained general-purpose Large Language Models (LLMs) to hundreds or thousands of use scenarios. However, their efficacy in high-stakes domains like finance is rarely explored, e.g., passing CFA exams and analyzing SEC filings. In this paper, we present the open-source FinLoRA project that benchmarks LoRA methods on both general and highly professional financial tasks. First, we curated 19 datasets covering diverse financial applications; in particular, we created four novel XBRL analysis datasets based on 150 SEC filings. Second, we evaluated five LoRA methods and five base LLMs. Finally, we provide extensive experimental results in terms of accuracy, F1, and BERTScore and report computational cost in terms of time and GPU memory during fine-tuning and inference stages. We find that LoRA methods achieved substantial performance gains of 36\% on average over base models. Our FinLoRA project provides an affordable and scalable approach to democratize financial intelligence to the general public. Datasets, LoRA adapters, code, and documentation are available at https://github.com/Open-Finance-Lab/FinLoRA
title FinLoRA: Benchmarking LoRA Methods for Fine-Tuning LLMs on Financial Datasets
topic Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19819