Sarah-h-h/financial-summarizer-explained

Model Card: Financial Summarization (Pegasus-Based)

Overview

This model is a fine-tuned version of Google’s Pegasus architecture, adapted specifically for summarizing financial documents such as earnings calls, analyst reports, and news articles. It is part of the Human-Centered Summarization initiative and aims to assist professionals in extracting key insights from dense financial texts.

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Intended Use

This model is useful for:

• Summarizing financial earnings call transcripts
• Distilling key takeaways from long analyst or SEC reports
• Producing bullet-point recaps for business or finance newsletters
• Assisting in rapid market research or risk evaluation

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Example Use Case

Input:
“Alphabet reported a 12% rise in revenue driven by cloud growth. Advertising segments remained stable despite macroeconomic pressures. CFO noted increased investment in AI R&D…”

Output:
- Alphabet revenue up 12%, driven by cloud
- Advertising remains stable amid economic pressures
- Increased AI investment noted by CFO

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## Strengths

- Fine-tuned specifically for **financial language and structure**
- Supports both extractive and abstractive summarization
- Useful for automating investor briefings and compliance review support

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## Limitations

- May miss subtle tone shifts in earnings calls (e.g., cautious vs optimistic)
- Not designed for legal or regulatory compliance summaries
- Subject to hallucinations or over-simplification—**always review critical content**

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## Model Architecture

- Base: `google/pegasus-cnn_dailymail`
- Fine-tuned dataset: Financial documents and market reports
- Max input length: 512 tokens
- Output style: Bullet point or short paragraph summaries

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## License

MIT License — free to use, distribute, and adapt.

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## Authorship Note

This documentation card was authored by [Sarah Mancinho](https://huggingface.co/Sarah-h-h) as part of a contribution to open-source AI literacy and transparent LLM deployment.

Original model by: [human-centered-summarization](https://huggingface.co/human-centered-summarization/financial-summarization-pegasus)

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## Citation