Portfolio managers use an LLM to answer questions on earnings trans…

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Portfolio managers use an LLM to answer questions on earnings transcripts. Which control BEST reduces hallucinated financial figures?

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Require retrieval of transcript spans with citations and abstention when evidence is insufficient; verify critical numbers against structured feeds. — Ground in transcript spans, cite them, abstain if missing — and still verify key numbers against structured feeds.

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Encourage the model to guess when unsure to appear confident.

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Remove all source documents from context.

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Maximize temperature for creative accounting interpretations.

Portfolio managers use an LLM to answer questions on earnings transcripts. Which control BEST reduces hallucinated financial figures?

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