From Price Noise to Market Semantics: A Self-Adapting Large Language Model Framework for Financial Intelligence
CSEF · 2026 Computational Science (Senior Division)
Overview
Financial markets are fast changing with time-series data, but large language models (LLMs) are trained only with a point-in-time data. The purpose of this project is to create a self-learning LLM that’s fully aware of financial markets in real-time so investors can make decisions quickly and accurately. In Step-1, we transform raw market data into symbolic representations that enables continuous self-improvement through controlled fine-tuning and self-edits. Raw 1-minute OHLCV data is converted into Renko blocks and stored in the database. In Step 2, Renko data is transformed into a three-layer representation comprising: symbolic tokenization, market structure state, and a time-indexed event log. This symbolic representation allows the LLM to reason over market dynamics, as the self-learning framework operates on symbolic, not numeric tokens. In Step 3, the LLM receives this data, it produces an output containing Market Meaning, Strategy Class, Confidence, Explanation, and Self-Critique. In Step 4, we enter a self-evalution loop, where it proposes self-edits, synthetic improvements to its reasoning and decision framework. These edits are evaluated through inner and outer optimization loops with reinforcement learning. Weight updates are permanently applied if performance improves; otherwise, the model reverts to the prior stable state. In conclusion, after the first round of self-evalution loop our LLM's interpretation quality value is 88%. The goal of the loop is not infinite fine-tuning, but to guide learning that increases the model’s accuracy.
Competition history
- CSEF 2026
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