arXiv:2608.10050cs.LG2026-08

从企业账本日志中学习最优财务建议策略,提升小企业经营决策效率。

Observational Policy Ranking for SMB Financial Guidance from Multi-Action Accounting Logs

  • 基于多动作账本数据,用调整协变量的残差学习法排序财务策略。
  • 在8.5万条企业数据上,该方法对利润提升效果最佳(0.084)。
  • 适合需要个性化财务指导的小企业,可避免单一策略过度集中。

中小企业亟需及时的财务指导,但历史账本记录的是企业自主选择且常共现的业务变动,而非随机推荐。本文将此场景建模为观测策略排序问题:基于决策前的财务信息,从34个由账本推导出的业务变更类别中选择一项,以影响目标财务指标。利用来自7,505家企业的85,078个公司-月观测数据,我们提出协变量调整残差策略学习(CAR-PL),一种针对每项行动的R-learner,直接处理多热编码的账本日志,并通过观测支持度进行选择正则化。在共享模型辅助评分规则下,于公司互斥的保留样本上对比CAR-PL、增益T-Learner、保守上下文值模型、零样本大语言模型及非个性化基准。结果显示,CAR-PL在毛利上的点估计最高(0.084),T-Learner在收入上最高(0.085),上下文值模型在速动比率上最高(0.062)。在匹配的公司聚类比较中,CAR-PL与T-Learner在两项增长指标上无显著差异;而CAR-PL选择33-34个类别,策略分布更分散。仅使用结果模型评分时,各指标的领先者或前两名保持不变,当全零处理参考替换为训练中常见的共现模式时,类别排名仍高度相似。这些发现支持基于目标指标对中小企业财务建议进行差异化排序。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Small and medium-sized businesses need timely financial guidance, yet historical accounting logs record self-selected and often co-occurring business changes rather than randomized recommendations. We formulate this setting as observational policy ranking: from pre-decision financial information, a policy selects one of 34 ledger-derived business-change categories for a target financial KPI. Using 85,078 company-month observations from 7,505 firms, we introduce Covariate-Adjusted Residual Policy Learning (CAR-PL), an action-wise R-learner that operates directly on multi-hot logs and regularizes selection by observational support. We compare CAR-PL with an uplift T-Learner, a conservative contextual value model, a zero-shot LLM, and non-personalized references on company-disjoint held-out firms under a shared model-assisted scoring rule. CAR-PL has the highest Gross Profit point estimate (0.084), the T-Learner has the highest Revenue point estimate (0.085), and the contextual value model has the highest Quick Ratio point estimate (0.062). CAR-PL and the T-Learner are not statistically separated on either growth KPI in matched company-clustered comparisons, while CAR-PL selects 33-34 categories and produces less concentrated selections across the catalog. Outcome-model-only scoring retains the same KPI-level point-estimate leader or top pair, and category rankings remain similar when the all-zero treatment reference is replaced by the most common training co-action pattern. These findings support objective-specific ranking of SMB financial guidance from multi-action accounting logs.

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