Knowledge-Augmented Large Language Model Agents for Explainable Financial Decision-Making

TL;DR

This paper presents a knowledge-augmented large language model framework that enhances explainability, factual accuracy, and reasoning transparency in financial decision-making tasks by integrating external knowledge and logical reasoning chains.

Contribution

It introduces a novel integrated framework combining external knowledge retrieval, semantic representation, and reasoning generation for improved financial decision explanations.

Findings

Outperforms baseline models in accuracy and factual support.

Enhances reasoning transparency with logical chains.

Improves text generation quality in financial tasks.

Abstract

This study investigates an explainable reasoning method for financial decision-making based on knowledge-enhanced large language model agents. To address the limitations of traditional financial decision methods that rely on parameterized knowledge, lack factual consistency, and miss reasoning chains, an integrated framework is proposed that combines external knowledge retrieval, semantic representation, and reasoning generation. The method first encodes financial texts and structured data to obtain semantic representations, and then retrieves task-related information from external knowledge bases using similarity computation. Internal representations and external knowledge are combined through weighted fusion, which ensures fluency while improving factual accuracy and completeness of generated content. In the reasoning stage, a multi-head attention mechanism is introduced to construct logical chains, allowing the model to present transparent causal relationships and traceability during generation. Finally, the model jointly optimizes task objectives and explanation consistency objectives, which enhances predictive performance and reasoning interpretability. Experiments on financial text processing and decision tasks show that the method outperforms baseline approaches in accuracy, text generation quality, and factual support, verifying the effectiveness of knowledge enhancement and explainable reasoning. Overall, the proposed approach overcomes the limitations of traditional models in semantic coverage and reasoning transparency, and demonstrates strong practical value in complex financial scenarios.