FinHardBench: Can LLMs Generate Latency-Aware Hardware for Financial Computing?

arXiv:2608.00909 · cs.CL, cs.AR · Submitted 2026-08-02 · Read on arXiv

Weimin Fu, Hejia Zhang, Minghao Shao, Zeng Wang, Johann Knechtel, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Muhammad Shafique, Ramesh Karri, Xiaolong Guo

cs.CL, cs.AR

Submitted: 2026-08-02

Comments: 16 pages (10 pages main text). Published as a conference paper at COLM 2026. Code and benchmark: https://github.com/owenfucell/FinHardBench

Code: https://github.com/owenfucell/FinHardBench

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Benchmark — 26× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Generator — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Bayesian Optimization — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Decoder — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Design Space Exploration — 5× in this paper
Simulated Annealing — 5× in this paper
Abstraction — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Configuration Space — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Harness — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
Composition — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Domain Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Feedback Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Fixed Point — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Hyperparameters — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Inflation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
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Surrogate Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
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