ENTERPRISE AI ANALYSIS
When Do We Need LLMs? A Diagnostic for Language-Driven Bandits
This research evaluates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits (CMABs) for sequential decision-making, particularly in finance where contexts involve both text and numerical data. We introduce LLMP-UCB, a bandit algorithm that derives uncertainty estimates from LLMs via repeated inference. Our findings show that lightweight numerical bandits operating on text embeddings can match or exceed LLM-based solutions in accuracy at a fraction of the cost. We propose a geometric diagnostic based on arm embeddings to decide when LLM-driven reasoning is truly necessary, enabling cost-effective, uncertainty-aware decision systems.
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LLM Performance Analysis
Embedding Dimensionality Impact
LLM Process UCB (LLMP-UCB)
Examines the empirical performance of LLM-based bandit algorithms compared to traditional numerical methods across various reward functions and contextual complexities.
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Lowest Regret on 'fextract' (LLMP-Joint)
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Investigates how the dimensionality of text embeddings affects the exploration-exploitation trade-off and overall performance of numerical CMABs.
Enterprise Process Flow
Identify Textual Context
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Select Embedding Model
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Vary Embedding Dimensions (k)
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Train Numerical Bandit (LinUCB)
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Evaluate Performance (Regret/Accuracy)
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Optimize k for Cost-Performance
Banking77 Classification with LinUCB
In the Banking77 dataset, increasing embedding dimensions from 2 to 768 significantly improved LinUCB's final accuracy from ~0.4 to ~0.7. This demonstrates that a cheap numerical bandit, when fed high-dimensional embeddings, can effectively handle complex semantic tasks, challenging the assumption that only LLMs can perform well in such scenarios.
Details the proposed LLMP-UCB algorithm, which leverages LLM's language understanding with uncertainty estimates via repeated inference to enhance decision-making.
Improved Uncertainty
LLMP-UCB combines LLM reasoning with uncertainty quantification.
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