FinRankGRPO: Optimizing LLMs for Listwise Financial Asset Ranking via Group Relative Policy Optimization

📅 2026-09-21
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为解决大语言模型在金融资产排序中的不匹配问题,提出FinRankGRPO框架,通过两阶段训练优化资产列表排序。
📝 Abstract
While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding unstructured financial contexts, their direct use in portfolio optimization is limited by a mismatch between next-token prediction and the listwise ranking objectives required for asset allocation. They also struggle with precise numerical forecasting, leading to instability and arithmetic hallucinations. To bridge this gap, we propose FinRankGRPO, a framework that shifts LLM based portfolio construction from direct numerical prediction to listwise ranking of financial assets. We introduce a two-stage training process, supervised finetuning on Chain-of-Thought reasoning data, followed by our Financial Asset Ranking via Group Relative Policy Optimization with a Spearman rank correlation reward that aligns generated asset rankings with ground truth market orderings. The second stage uses a novel Spearman rank correlation reward to explicitly align the model's generative preferences with ground truth market orderings. Experimental results show that FinRankGRPO outperforms traditional quantitative and state-of-the-art commercial models, achieving a Sharpe ratio of 0.636 and a Spearman correlation of 0.023.
Problem

Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.

Large Language Models
portfolio optimization
listwise ranking
numerical forecasting
arithmetic hallucinations
Innovation

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listwise ranking
Group Relative Policy Optimization
Spearman rank correlation reward
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Ningyuan Deng
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Jinyuan Wang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Qi Li
Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, Ltd
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Jia Zhang
Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Company of China, Ltd
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Yi Yang
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology