Nowadays, the success of financial organizations heavily depends on their ability to process digital traces generated by their clients, e.g., transaction histories, gathered from various sources to improve user modeling pipelines. As general-purpose LLMs struggle with time-distributed tabular data, production stacks still depend on specialized tabular and sequence models that are limited in transferability and require labeled data. To address this, we introduce FinTRACE, a retrieval-first architecture that converts raw transactions into reusable feature representations, applies rule-based detectors, and stores the resulting signals in a behavioral knowledge base with graded associations to the objectives of downstream tasks. Across public and industrial benchmarks, FinTRACE substantially improves low-supervision transaction analytics, doubling zero-shot MCC on churn prediction performance from 0.19 to 0.38 and improving 16-shot MCC from 0.25 to 0.40. We further use FinTRACE to ground LLMs via instruction tuning on retrieved behavioral patterns, achieving state-of-the-art LLM results on transaction analytics problems.

Hyperspectral imaging has attracted significant attention to identify spectral signatures for image classification and automated pattern recognition in computer vision. State-of-the-art implementations of snapshot hyperspectral imaging rely on bulky, non-integrated, and expensive optical elements, including lenses, spectrometers, and filters. These macroscopic components do not allow fast data processing for, e.g. real-time and high-resolution videos. This work introduces Hyplex™, a new integrated architecture addressing the limitations discussed above. Hyplex™ is a CMOS-compatible, fast hyperspectral camera that replaces bulk optics with nanoscale metasurfaces inversely designed through artificial intelligence. Hyplex™ does not require spectrometers but makes use of conventional monochrome cameras, opening up the possibility for real-time and high-resolution hyperspectral imaging at inexpensive costs. Hyplex™ exploits a model-driven optimization, which connects the physical metasurfaces layer with modern visual computing approaches based on end-to-end training. We design and implement a prototype version of Hyplex™ and compare its performance against the state-of-the-art for typical imaging tasks such as spectral reconstruction and semantic segmentation. In all benchmarks, Hyplex™ reports the smallest reconstruction error. We additionally present what is, to the best of our knowledge, the largest publicly available labeled hyperspectral dataset for semantic segmentation.11Dataset available on https://github.com/makamoa/hyplex.