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PRISM: Prompt-Refined In-Context System Modelling for Financial Retrieval

Chun Chet Ng, Jia Yu Lim, Wei Zeng Low

Published

Nov 18, 2025

Citations

0

Trust level

Moderate

Usefulness score

25/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

55% (Moderate)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Apr 6, 2026

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Automatic Metrics Coding Multi Agent

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this for comparison and orientation, not as your only source.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

A benchmark-and-metrics comparison anchor.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

No major weakness surfaced.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Detected
Eval setup described
Usefulness for eval research
25/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application. Extracting task-relevant information from lengthy financial filings is essential for both operational and analytical decision-making. We present PRISM, a training-free framework that integrates refined system prompting, in-context learning (ICL), and lightweight multi-agent coordination for document and chunk ranking tasks. Our primary contribution is a systematic empirical study of when each component provides value: prompt engineering delivers consistent performance with minimal overhead, ICL enhances reasoning for complex queries when applied selectively, and multi-agent systems show potential primarily with larger models and careful architectural design. Extensive ablation studies across FinAgentBench, FiQA-2018, and FinanceBench reveal that simpler configurations often outperform complex multi-agent pipelines, providing practical guidance for practitioners. Our best configuration achieves an NDCG@5 of 0.71818 on FinAgentBench, ranking third while being the only training-free approach in the top three. We provide comprehensive feasibility analyses covering latency, token usage, and cost trade-offs to support deployment decisions. The source code is released at https://bit.ly/prism-ailens.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application."

Evaluation Modes

strong

Automatic Metrics

Includes extracted eval setup.

"With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application."

Benchmarks / Datasets

strong

Finagentbench, Financebench

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"Extensive ablation studies across FinAgentBench, FiQA-2018, and FinanceBench reveal that simpler configurations often outperform complex multi-agent pipelines, providing practical guidance for practitioners."

Reported Metrics

strong

Ndcg

Useful for evaluation criteria comparison.

"Our best configuration achieves an NDCG@5 of 0.71818 on FinAgentBench, ranking third while being the only training-free approach in the top three."

Benchmarks and datasets

FinagentbenchFinancebench

Reported metrics

ndcg
Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Unit of annotation
Ranking
Expertise required
Coding
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
Automatic Metrics
Agentic eval
Multi Agent
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Moderate
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • With the rapid progress of large language models (LLMs), financial information retrieval has become a critical industrial application.
  • Extracting task-relevant information from lengthy financial filings is essential for both operational and analytical decision-making.
  • We present PRISM, a training-free framework that integrates refined system prompting, in-context learning (ICL), and lightweight multi-agent coordination for document and chunk ranking tasks.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

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Contribution summary

  • We present PRISM, a training-free framework that integrates refined system prompting, in-context learning (ICL), and lightweight multi-agent coordination for document and chunk ranking tasks.
  • Our primary contribution is a systematic empirical study of when each component provides value: prompt engineering delivers consistent performance with minimal overhead, ICL enhances reasoning for complex queries when applied selectively,…
  • Extensive ablation studies across FinAgentBench, FiQA-2018, and FinanceBench reveal that simpler configurations often outperform complex multi-agent pipelines, providing practical guidance for practitioners.

Why it matters for eval

  • We present PRISM, a training-free framework that integrates refined system prompting, in-context learning (ICL), and lightweight multi-agent coordination for document and chunk ranking tasks.
  • Our primary contribution is a systematic empirical study of when each component provides value: prompt engineering delivers consistent performance with minimal overhead, ICL enhances reasoning for complex queries when applied selectively,…

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    Detected: Automatic Metrics

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: Finagentbench, Financebench

  • Metric reporting is present

    Detected: ndcg