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Journal of Zhejiang University SCIENCE C 1998 Vol.-1 No.-1 P.

http://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2500227


When DeepSeek-R1 meets financial applications: benchmarking, opportunities, and limitations


Author(s):  Shuoling LIU1, 2, Liyuan CHEN2, Jiangpeng YAN2, 4, Yuhang JIANG2, Xiaoyu WANG2, Xiu LI4, Qiang YANG1

Affiliation(s):  1The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong 999077, China; more

Corresponding email(s):   qyang@cse.ust.hk

Key Words:  Large language models, Reasoning, Artificial intelligence, Financial technology, FinTech


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Abstract: 
The ways in which the recent progresses of reasoning large language models (LLMs), especially the new open-source model DeepSeek-R1, can benefit financial services is an underexplored problem. While LLMs have ignited numerous applications within the financial sector, including financial news analysis and general customer interactions, DeepSeek-R1 further unlocks the advanced reasoning ability with multiple reinforcement learning–integrated training steps for more complex financial queries and provides distilled student models for resource-constrained scenarios. In this paper, we first introduce the technological preliminaries of DeepSeek-R1. Subsequently, we benchmark the performance of DeepSeek-R1 and its distilled students on two public financial question–answer datasets as a starting point for interdisciplinary research on financial artificial intelligence (AI). Then, we discuss the opportunities that DeepSeek-R1 offers to current financial services, its current limitations, and three future research directions. In conclusion, we argue for a proper approach to adopt reasoning LLMs for financial AI

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