A Robustly Optimized Long Text to Math Models for Numerical Reasoning On FinQA
This addresses the problem of numerical reasoning in AI for financial applications, but it is incremental as it builds on existing challenge frameworks.
The paper tackled the FinQA challenge for numerical reasoning in financial questions by developing models with specialized capabilities and fusing their strengths, achieving first place with 71.93% execution accuracy and 67.03% program accuracy.
Numerical reasoning is required when solving most problems in our life, but it has been neglected in previous artificial intelligence researches. FinQA challenge has been organized to strengthen the study on numerical reasoning where the participants are asked to predict the numerical reasoning program to solve financial question. The result of FinQA will be evaluated by both execution accuracy and program accuracy. In this paper, we present our approach to tackle the task objective by developing models with different specialized capabilities and fusing their strength. Overall, our approach achieves the 1st place in FinQA challenge, with 71.93% execution accuracy and 67.03% program accuracy.