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FinMarBa: A Market-Informed Dataset for Financial Sentiment Classification

Published: July 24, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2507.22932v1

By: Baptiste Lefort , Eric Benhamou , Beatrice Guez and more

Potential Business Impact:

Helps computers make smarter money choices.

Business Areas:
Trading Platform Financial Services, Lending and Investments

This paper presents a novel hierarchical framework for portfolio optimization, integrating lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to combine sentiment signals from financial news with traditional market indicators. Our three-tier architecture employs base RL agents to process hybrid data, meta-agents to aggregate their decisions, and a super-agent to merge decisions based on market data and sentiment analysis. Evaluated on data from 2018 to 2024, after training on 2000-2017, the framework achieves a 26% annualized return and a Sharpe ratio of 1.2, outperforming equal-weighted and S&P 500 benchmarks. Key contributions include scalable cross-modal integration, a hierarchical RL structure for enhanced stability, and open-source reproducibility.


Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Computation and Language