TLDR: A new AI-powered Information Retrieval (IR) system helps bank supervisors draft consistent and effective measures by retrieving relevant historical findings. It combines lexical, semantic, and CRR fuzzy matching techniques, achieving high accuracy and outperforming traditional models, especially with a hybrid approach.
Bank supervisors play a crucial role in ensuring that new financial measures are consistent with past decisions. This complex task often requires significant time and expertise to maintain uniformity and prevent risks. To address this challenge, a new Information Retrieval (IR) System has been developed, specifically designed to assist supervisors in drafting consistent and effective measures.
This innovative system works by ingesting findings from on-site investigations. It then intelligently retrieves the most relevant historical findings and their associated measures from a comprehensive database. This provides supervisors with a solid foundation for writing well-informed measures for new situations. The system employs a sophisticated blend of techniques, including lexical analysis, semantic understanding, and a unique fuzzy set matching based on the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).
The core of the IR system involves converting findings into meaningful numerical representations, known as embeddings. These embeddings allow the system to calculate how similar one finding is to another. The system then ranks and retrieves the top historical findings that are most relevant to a new case. This process is enhanced by considering the specific CRR articles linked to each finding. By analyzing the overlap and hierarchical relationships of these articles, the system can further refine its search, ensuring that retrieved findings are highly aligned with the current case.
The system’s performance was rigorously validated using a Monte Carlo methodology, particularly in scenarios where data was only partially labeled. This validation showcased its robustness and accuracy. The final model, enhanced by a Transformer-based Denoising AutoEncoder for fine-tuning, achieved impressive scores, outperforming traditional lexical models like BM25 and semantic BERT-like models. The most effective approach was a “Hybrid” model, which combines the strengths of both lexical matching and semantic understanding, especially when optimized with the fuzzy CRR matching component. This integrated approach yielded the highest performance metrics, demonstrating that combining multiple retrieval strategies leads to superior results.
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Ultimately, this IR system significantly improves the efficiency and quality of supervisory decision-making. By providing supervisors with relevant historical contexts and parallels, it reduces the time spent on manual searches and increases the accuracy of measure formulation. For more in-depth information, you can read the full research paper: LLM-based IR-system for Bank Supervisors.
