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arxiv: 2606.01886 · v1 · pith:S546ADOTnew · submitted 2026-06-01 · 💻 cs.AI · cs.CE

Absorbing Complexity: An Interaction-Native Knowledge Harness for Financial LLM Agents

Ailiya Borjigin , Igor Stadnyk , Ben Bilski , Maksym Chikita , Dmytro Kyrylenko , Sofiia Pidturkina , Julia Stadnyk This is my paper

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keywords financial LLM agentsinteraction-native knowledge harnesstemporal graph memorypassive knowledge injectionstale-knowledge reductionwiki audit surfacesynthetic benchmarkcontext buffer
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Financial LLM agents perform better when the system absorbs user and market complexity into structured knowledge rather than requiring repeated user restatements.

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Financial AI agents often fail because users must restate goals, risk preferences, portfolio context, and shifting assumptions while the agent retrieves, acts, and forgets information, creating latency, repeated errors, and weak auditability in tasks such as market analysis and trade preparation. The paper introduces the interaction-native knowledge harness (InKH) that converts user, market, portfolio, and tool events into structured operational knowledge through passive injection, temporal graph memory, a wiki audit surface, and background extraction with decay and invalidation. On a reproducible synthetic benchmark with 24 seeds, 4 rounds, and 80 episodes per round, InKH reaches mean task quality of 0.815 at 900 ms latency while cutting stale-knowledge usage by 96.58 percent versus agent-driven wiki-walk memory and improving quality by 0.108 and traceability by 0.461. A sympathetic reader would care because this architecture keeps complexity inside the system, which the authors argue supports safer and more adoptable financial AI. The evaluation covers 46,080 baseline-conditioned runs across six baselines.

Core claim

The interaction-native knowledge harness converts user, market, portfolio, and tool events into structured operational knowledge. It assembles a bounded working context buffer via passive knowledge injection before the main model step, uses temporal graph memory for low-latency retrieval, supplies a wiki audit surface for human-readable governance, and applies background extraction with maturity, decay, and write-time invalidation. On the controlled synthetic benchmark, InKH achieves mean task quality of 0.815 at 900 ms latency, reduces latency by 82.95 percent and token cost by 82.29 percent versus agent-driven wiki-walk memory, cuts stale-knowledge usage by 96.58 percent, and raises qualit

What carries the argument

The interaction-native knowledge harness (InKH), an architecture that turns events into structured operational knowledge through passive injection into a bounded context buffer, temporal graph memory, wiki audit surface, and background extraction with maturity, decay, and write-time invalidation.

If this is right

  • Task quality reaches 0.815 while holding latency to 900 ms across the tested episodes.
  • Stale-knowledge usage drops 96.58 percent versus agent-driven wiki-walk memory, lowering the chance of decisions based on outdated information.
  • Traceability rises by 0.461, supporting stronger human-readable governance through the wiki audit surface.
  • Token cost and latency each fall more than 82 percent versus the wiki-walk baseline while quality and traceability improve.
  • Financial AI adoption improves when complexity is absorbed by the system instead of transferred to the user.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same passive-injection and decay mechanisms could reduce context-restatement burden in other persistent-context domains such as medical decision support.
  • The wiki audit surface might allow regulators to inspect agent reasoning without requiring full model retraining.
  • Write-time invalidation combined with temporal graphs could be tested for preventing error propagation in multi-agent financial systems that share memory.
  • If the bounded context buffer scales, it might limit token usage growth even as the number of monitored portfolios increases.

Load-bearing premise

The controlled synthetic benchmark with 24 seeds, 4 rounds, and 80 episodes per round accurately captures the latency, error, and auditability issues that arise in real financial workflows involving live market data and human oversight.

What would settle it

Running the InKH agents on live market data feeds with actual human traders and observing no reduction in decision errors or no gain in auditability compared with the wiki-walk baseline would challenge the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.01886 by Ailiya Borjigin, Ben Bilski, Dmytro Kyrylenko, Igor Stadnyk, Julia Stadnyk, Maksym Chikita, Sofiia Pidturkina.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Interaction-native knowledge harness. The online path assembles governed low-latency [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Quality-latency frontier. InKH occupies the best region among persistent-memory baselines. 6 Results Main quantitative results [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Stale-knowledge usage by round. Write-time invalidation is the key differentiator after [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
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Financial AI agents often fail for a simple reason: they make users carry the complexity. A user must repeatedly restate goals, risk preferences, portfolio context, past judgments, and shifting market assumptions, while the agent answers, retrieves, acts, and forgets. In finance, this is not just inconvenient. In tasks such as market analysis, copy-trading review, and trade preparation, forgotten context and stale memory can create latency, repeated errors, weak auditability, and unsafe decisions. We propose the interaction-native knowledge harness (InKH), an architecture for financial LLM agents that absorbs complexity into the system. InKH converts user, market, portfolio, and tool events into structured operational knowledge. It uses passive knowledge injection to assemble a bounded working context buffer before the main model step, temporal graph memory for low-latency retrieval, a wiki audit surface for human-readable governance, and background extraction with maturity, decay, and write-time invalidation. We evaluate InKH on a reproducible controlled synthetic benchmark with 24 random seeds, 4 rounds, 80 episodes per round, and 6 baselines, producing 46,080 baseline-conditioned evaluations. InKH achieves mean task quality of 0.815 at 900 ms latency. Compared with agent-driven wiki-walk memory, it reduces latency by 82.95 percent, token cost by 82.29 percent, and stale-knowledge usage by 96.58 percent, while improving quality by 0.108 and traceability by 0.461. Compared with a temporal-graph system without invalidation, it improves quality by 0.050 and reduces stale-memory usage by 96.58 percent with comparable serving cost. The results support a design thesis for financial AI: adoption happens when complexity is absorbed by the system rather than transferred to the user. The benchmark validates architecture-level behavior, not live trading performance.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes the interaction-native knowledge harness (InKH) architecture for financial LLM agents that absorbs complexity into the system via passive knowledge injection to assemble a bounded working context buffer, temporal graph memory for low-latency retrieval, a wiki audit surface for governance, and background extraction with maturity, decay, and write-time invalidation. It evaluates the approach on a reproducible controlled synthetic benchmark using 24 random seeds, 4 rounds, and 80 episodes per round against 6 baselines, yielding 46,080 evaluations. InKH is reported to achieve mean task quality of 0.815 at 900 ms latency, with an 82.95% latency reduction, 82.29% token cost reduction, 96.58% reduction in stale-knowledge usage, +0.108 quality improvement, and +0.461 traceability improvement versus agent-driven wiki-walk memory (and smaller but positive gains versus a temporal-graph system without invalidation). The results are scoped to architecture-level behavior on the synthetic benchmark and not claimed to generalize to live trading.

Significance. If the empirical results hold under the stated synthetic conditions, the work supplies a concrete, reproducible comparison that supports the thesis that financial LLM agent performance and auditability improve when complexity is absorbed by the system rather than transferred to the user. The explicit benchmark parameters (seeds, rounds, episodes) and the six-baseline design enable direct architecture-level validation; the paper's clear scoping statement that results do not claim live-trading performance is a positive feature that keeps the claims proportionate.

minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract and Evaluation section: the derivation of the total 46,080 evaluations (24 seeds × 4 rounds × 80 episodes × 6 baselines) is arithmetically correct but not shown explicitly; adding a short sentence or footnote would improve immediate verifiability.
  2. [Evaluation] The manuscript states the benchmark is reproducible yet provides no table or pseudocode summarizing the exact episode generation rules, baseline implementations, or quality/traceability metric definitions; a compact methods table would strengthen the reproducibility claim without altering the central results.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the positive and accurate summary of the InKH architecture, its evaluation on the synthetic benchmark, and the recommendation for minor revision. The assessment correctly notes the reproducibility parameters, the six-baseline design, and the explicit scoping that results apply to architecture-level behavior rather than live trading.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity

full rationale

The paper contains no derivation chain, equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations that reduce claims to internal definitions. All central results are direct empirical measurements (task quality, latency, stale-knowledge usage, etc.) on an explicitly described synthetic benchmark with 24 seeds, 4 rounds, 80 episodes/round, and 6 baselines. These are compared to external baselines rather than being forced by any internal construction or prior author work invoked as uniqueness. The architecture is described at the system level without any predictive modeling that could collapse into its own inputs.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

The paper introduces no free parameters or invented physical entities. It relies on standard assumptions about LLM agent behavior and synthetic data generation.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Synthetic episodes with random seeds sufficiently represent real financial task dynamics including context drift and audit needs.
    Invoked when claiming benchmark results generalize to market analysis, copy-trading, and trade preparation.
invented entities (1)
  • Interaction-native knowledge harness (InKH) no independent evidence
    purpose: Absorb user, market, portfolio, and tool complexity into bounded working context, temporal memory, and audit surface.
    The architecture itself is the novel construct; no independent falsifiable evidence outside the synthetic benchmark is provided.

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