Xiang Liu
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2026
PRISM: Probabilistic Reward Model with Inherent Structural Modeling
Yuhang Zhou | Yixin Cao | Yuchen Ni | Shihan Dou | Xutian Chen | Ge Zhang | Xiang Liu | Guangnan Ye
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Yuhang Zhou | Yixin Cao | Yuchen Ni | Shihan Dou | Xutian Chen | Ge Zhang | Xiang Liu | Guangnan Ye
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Standard evaluators, such as reward models, compress diverse human judgments into a single scalar, conflating valid Subjective Preference with Cognitive Uncertainty. This structural mismatch often leads to brittle alignment and reward hacking. To address this, we propose PRISM which reinterprets reward evaluation as a conditional distribution parameterized by a Mixture of Gaussians. PRISM structurally disentangles these factors: distinct Gaussian experts emerge to capture conflicting preference dimensions, while their variance estimates quantify uncertainty, acting as a dynamic reliability gate during optimization. We introduce a two-stage training strategy to learn these disentangled representations from scalable pairwise comparisons without requiring massive fine-grained annotations. Empirical results show that PRISM significantly outperforms scalar baselines in both accuracy and generalization. Furthermore, in downstream Reinforcement Learning, PRISM effectively mitigates reward hacking, yielding policies that are more robust and resilient to distribution shifts.
2025
Are LLMs Rational Investors? A Study on the Financial Bias in LLMs
Yuhang Zhou | Yuchen Ni | Zhiheng Xi | Zhangyue Yin | Yu He | Gan Yunhui | Xiang Liu | Zhang Jian | Sen Liu | Xipeng Qiu | Yixin Cao | Guangnan Ye | Hongfeng Chai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Yuhang Zhou | Yuchen Ni | Zhiheng Xi | Zhangyue Yin | Yu He | Gan Yunhui | Xiang Liu | Zhang Jian | Sen Liu | Xipeng Qiu | Yixin Cao | Guangnan Ye | Hongfeng Chai
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
Large language models (LLMs) excel in natural language generation but also exhibit biases, particularly in gender, race, and religion, which can be amplified with widespread use. However, research on biases in specific domains, such as finance, remains limited. To address this gap, we conducted a comprehensive evaluation of 23 leading LLMs and found varying degrees of financial bias, including more pronounced biases in financial-specific LLMs (FinLLMs). In response, we propose the Financial Bias Indicators (FBI) framework, which includes components like the Bias Unveiler, Bias Detective, Bias Tracker, and Bias Antidote, designed to identify, detect, analyze, and mitigate financial biases. Our analysis explores the root causes of these biases and introduces a debiasing method based on financial causal knowledge, alongside three other debiasing techniques. For the most biased model, we successfully reduced bias by 68% according to key metrics. This study advances our understanding of LLM biases in finance and highlights the need for greater scrutiny in their application within this critical domain.