FinGPT: Open-Source Financial Large Language Models
This work addresses the problem of limited access to proprietary financial data for researchers and practitioners, offering an open-source alternative to democratize FinLLMs, though it is incremental as it builds on existing LLM techniques.
The paper tackles the challenge of accessing high-quality financial data for financial large language models (FinLLMs) by presenting FinGPT, an open-source model that democratizes Internet-scale financial data through a data-centric approach, aiming to stimulate innovation and unlock opportunities in open finance.
Large language models (LLMs) have shown the potential of revolutionizing natural language processing tasks in diverse domains, sparking great interest in finance. Accessing high-quality financial data is the first challenge for financial LLMs (FinLLMs). While proprietary models like BloombergGPT have taken advantage of their unique data accumulation, such privileged access calls for an open-source alternative to democratize Internet-scale financial data. In this paper, we present an open-source large language model, FinGPT, for the finance sector. Unlike proprietary models, FinGPT takes a data-centric approach, providing researchers and practitioners with accessible and transparent resources to develop their FinLLMs. We highlight the importance of an automatic data curation pipeline and the lightweight low-rank adaptation technique in building FinGPT. Furthermore, we showcase several potential applications as stepping stones for users, such as robo-advising, algorithmic trading, and low-code development. Through collaborative efforts within the open-source AI4Finance community, FinGPT aims to stimulate innovation, democratize FinLLMs, and unlock new opportunities in open finance. Two associated code repos are https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinGPT and https://github.com/AI4Finance-Foundation/FinNLP