Xiku Du

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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0004-2355-0707ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021

Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.

Artificial intelligence
1 paper
Language models and text generation · 67% Question answering and dialogue systems · 33%
Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper
Computational finance and economics · 100%

Topics — the 3 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Natural language and speech › Question answering and dialogue systems › domain-specific question answering
financial question answering
1.012026
Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA · WWW 2026
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › agentic language model › tool-augmented language models
function calling
1.012026
Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA · WWW 2026
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › LLM agents
tool use
1.012026
Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA · WWW 2026

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

model fine-tuning · 2.0data augmentation · 2.0
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2026 Data-Driven Function Calling Improvements in Large Language Model for Online Financial QA
abstract
Large language models (LLMs) have been incorporated into numerous industrial applications. Meanwhile, a vast array of API assets is scattered across various functions in the financial domain. An online financial question-answering system can leverage both LLMs and private APIs to provide timely financial analysis and information. The key is equipping the LLM model with function calling capability tailored to a financial scenario. However, a generic LLM requires customized financial APIs to call and struggles to adapt to the financial domain. Additionally, online user queries are diverse and contain out-of-distribution parameters compared with the required function input parameters, which makes it more difficult for a generic LLM to serve online users. In this paper, we propose a data-driven pipeline to enhance function calling in LLM for our online, deployed financial QA, comprising dataset construction, data augmentation, and model training. Specifically, we construct a dataset based on a previous study and update it periodically, incorporating queries and an augmentation method named AugFC. The addition of user query-related samples will exploit our financial toolset in a data-driven manner, and AugFC explores the possible parameter values to enhance the diversity of our updated dataset. Then, we train an LLM with a two-step method, which enables the use of our financial functions. Extensive experiments on existing offline datasets, as well as the deployment of an online scenario, illustrate the superiority of our pipeline. The related pipeline has been adopted in the financial QA of YuanBao. https://yuanbao.tencent.com/chat/, one of the largest chat platforms in China.
Xing Tang 0007, Shiwei Li 0002, Fuyuan Lyu, Dugang Liu, Weihong Luo, Xiku Du, Xiuqiang He 0001
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