arXiv:2602.21229q-fin.GNcs.CL2026-02

用市场概率引导大模型,提升关键词提及预测准确性

Forecasting Future Language: Context Design for Mention Markets

  • 将市场隐含概率作为先验,让大模型基于文本证据更新预测
  • 混合市场概率与模型输出的MixMCP方法表现最佳,优于单独市场或模型
  • 新闻和过往财报通话文本作为上下文能显著提升预测效果

提及市场是一种预测市场,其合约结果取决于未来公开事件中是否提及特定关键词。尽管大型语言模型(LLMs)生成的预测已可媲美人类,但如何设计输入上下文以支持准确预测仍不明确。本文在财报电话会议提及市场中开展实验,研究不同上下文信息(新闻和/或过往财报通话记录)及市场概率(即合约价格)使用方式的影响。提出市场条件提示(MCP),将市场隐含概率作为先验,指导模型利用文本证据进行更新,而非从零预测基线。实验发现:(1) 更丰富的上下文持续提升预测性能;(2) 使用市场概率作为先验的MCP方法产生更校准的预测;(3) 混合市场概率与MCP的MixMCP方法优于市场基准。通过用市场先验抑制模型后验更新,MixMCP比单独使用市场或模型更具鲁棒性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Mention markets, a type of prediction market in which contracts resolve based on whether a specified keyword is mentioned during a future public event, require accurate probabilistic forecasts of keyword-mention outcomes. While recent work shows that large language models (LLMs) can generate forecasts competitive with human forecasters, it remains unclear how input context should be designed to support accurate prediction. In this paper, we study this question through experiments on earnings-call mention markets, which require forecasting whether a company will mention a specified keyword during its upcoming call. We run controlled comparisons varying (i) which contextual information is provided (news and/or prior earnings-call transcripts) and (ii) how \textit{market probability}, (i.e., prediction market contract price) is used. We introduce Market-Conditioned Prompting (MCP), which explicitly treats the market-implied probability as a prior and instructs the LLM to update this prior using textual evidence, rather than re-predicting the base rate from scratch. In our experiments, we find three insights: (1) richer context consistently improves forecasting performance; (2) market-conditioned prompting (MCP), which treats the market probability as a prior and updates it using textual evidence, yields better-calibrated forecasts; and (3) a mixture of the market probability and MCP (MixMCP) outperforms the market baseline. By dampening the LLM's posterior update with the market prior, MixMCP yields more robust predictions than either the market or the LLM alone.

预测市场大模型上下文设计金融预测

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