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PIT Finance GRPO + Verifier System

This repository contains a verifier-guarded financial question answering system built on top of the PIT-4B point-in-time financial language model family.

The project combines:

  • A merged GRPO-aligned PIT generator
  • Numeric verification
  • NLI-based semantic grounding verification
  • Abstention behavior for unsupported answers

The objective is to improve reliability and reduce hallucinations in financial QA over earnings-call transcripts and financial documents.


Model Overview

Base Model

  • Diamegs/PIT-4B-FT-202212

Alignment

The model was aligned using:

  • reasoning supervision
  • GRPO-style preference optimization
  • LoRA fine-tuning
  • hallucination-aware financial QA data

The LoRA adapter was merged into the final model weights.

Final Merged Model

  • NurErtug/pit-finance-grpo-merged

Intended Use

The system is designed for:

  • grounded financial QA
  • earnings-call reasoning
  • hallucination reduction
  • numeric consistency
  • abstention on unsupported questions
  • verifier-guided inference

Verifier Architecture

The verifier is implemented as an inference-time guardrail wrapper.

The verifier is NOT merged into model weights.

The pipeline operates as follows:

User Question
      โ†“
Merged PIT Generator
      โ†“
Numeric Verifier
      โ†“
NLI Verifier
      โ†“
Abstention Policy
      โ†“
Final Answer

Verification Components

1. Numeric Verifier

Checks whether numeric claims generated by the model are supported by the evidence/context.

Examples:

  • unsupported dollar amounts
  • hallucinated percentages
  • fabricated growth figures

2. NLI Verifier

Uses:

  • MoritzLaurer/DeBERTa-v3-base-mnli-fever-anli

to verify semantic support between:

  • evidence/context
  • generated answer

Possible outcomes:

  • entailment
  • neutral
  • contradiction

3. Abstention Policy

If the verifier determines:

  • insufficient evidence
  • unsupported claims
  • semantic contradiction

the system returns:

NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION.

instead of hallucinating an answer.


Installation

Clone the repository:

git clone https://huggingface.co/NurErtug/pit-finance-grpo-merged
cd pit-finance-grpo-merged

Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Loading the Model

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForCausalLM
import torch

model_name = "NurErtug/pit-finance-grpo-merged"

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    use_fast=False,
)

model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(
    model_name,
    trust_remote_code=True,
    torch_dtype=torch.float16,
    device_map="auto",
)

model.eval()

Using the Verifier Wrapper

from verifier_wrapper import VerifierWrapper

wrapper = VerifierWrapper()

context = """
Revenue increased 18% year-over-year.
Alternative minimum tax credits totaled $125 million.
"""

question = "What was the revenue growth?"

result = wrapper.answer(
    context=context,
    question=question,
)

print(result)

Example Output

{
    "initial_answer": "Revenue increased 18% year-over-year.",
    "final_answer": "Revenue increased 18% year-over-year.",
    "rejected": False,
    "reward": 1.8
}

Example rejected output:

{
    "initial_answer": "$250 million",
    "final_answer": "NOT ENOUGH INFORMATION.",
    "rejected": True,
    "reject_reason": "verifier_failed"
}

Repository Contents

README.md
verifier_wrapper.py
requirements.txt
config.json
generation_config.json
model.safetensors
tokenizer files

Research Motivation

Financial QA systems are especially vulnerable to:

  • hallucinated financial figures
  • unsupported claims
  • temporal leakage
  • fabricated reasoning

This project explores verifier-guided inference as a lightweight alternative to:

  • expensive RLHF pipelines
  • larger judge-model architectures
  • fully integrated verifier training

The verifier wrapper provides an interpretable post-generation filtering mechanism for improving reliability in financial language models.


Limitations

The system may still:

  • over-abstain
  • reject partially correct answers
  • fail under highly ambiguous contexts
  • struggle with extremely long contexts

The verifier improves robustness but does not guarantee factual correctness.


Citation

@misc{pit_finance_verifier_2026,
  title={PIT Finance GRPO + Verifier System},
  author={Nur Ertug},
  year={2026},
  publisher={Hugging Face}
}

License

Apache-2.0

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