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| author | Wang, Mengyu Sabanis, Sotirios de Carvalho, Miguel Cohen, Shay B. Ma, Tiejun |
| author_facet | Wang, Mengyu Sabanis, Sotirios de Carvalho, Miguel Cohen, Shay B. Ma, Tiejun |
| contents | Domain-specific quantitative reasoning remains a major challenge for large language models (LLMs), especially in fields requiring expert knowledge and complex question answering (QA). In this work, we propose Expert Question Decomposition (EQD), an approach designed to balance the use of domain knowledge with computational efficiency. EQD is built on a two-step fine-tuning framework and guided by a reward function that measures the effectiveness of generated sub-questions in improving QA outcomes. It requires only a few thousand training examples and a single A100 GPU for fine-tuning, with inference time comparable to zero-shot prompting. Beyond its efficiency, EQD outperforms state-of-the-art domain-tuned models and advanced prompting strategies. We evaluate EQD in the financial domain, characterized by specialized knowledge and complex quantitative reasoning, across four benchmark datasets. Our method consistently improves QA performance by 0.6% to 10.5% across different LLMs. Our analysis reveals an important insight: in domain-specific QA, a single supporting question often provides greater benefit than detailed guidance steps. |
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| spellingShingle | One More Question is Enough, Expert Question Decomposition (EQD) Model for Domain Quantitative Reasoning Wang, Mengyu Sabanis, Sotirios de Carvalho, Miguel Cohen, Shay B. Ma, Tiejun Computation and Language Computational Finance Domain-specific quantitative reasoning remains a major challenge for large language models (LLMs), especially in fields requiring expert knowledge and complex question answering (QA). In this work, we propose Expert Question Decomposition (EQD), an approach designed to balance the use of domain knowledge with computational efficiency. EQD is built on a two-step fine-tuning framework and guided by a reward function that measures the effectiveness of generated sub-questions in improving QA outcomes. It requires only a few thousand training examples and a single A100 GPU for fine-tuning, with inference time comparable to zero-shot prompting. Beyond its efficiency, EQD outperforms state-of-the-art domain-tuned models and advanced prompting strategies. We evaluate EQD in the financial domain, characterized by specialized knowledge and complex quantitative reasoning, across four benchmark datasets. Our method consistently improves QA performance by 0.6% to 10.5% across different LLMs. Our analysis reveals an important insight: in domain-specific QA, a single supporting question often provides greater benefit than detailed guidance steps. |
| title | One More Question is Enough, Expert Question Decomposition (EQD) Model for Domain Quantitative Reasoning |
| topic | Computation and Language Computational Finance |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01526 |