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-# OpenFinMind
+## OpenFinMind
 
-### Open Financial Intelligence
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-**An Open Research Community for AI in Finance**
+**Open Financial Intelligence** · **An Open Research Community for AI in Finance**
 
 OpenFinMind is an open research community at **The University of Hong Kong (HKU)**, advancing artificial intelligence in finance through open research, collaborative development, and shared resources.
 
-## Research Areas
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-- **AI Agents & Financial Research** — Intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, and deep research for financial analysis and decision-making.
-- **Quantitative Finance & Alpha Discovery** — Code-based alpha mining, factor discovery, and systematic investment.
-- **Financial Forecasting & Evaluation** — Financial prediction, temporal evaluation, and AI benchmarks.
-- **Financial Data & Research Infrastructure** — Open datasets, reproducible workflows, and research tools.
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-## Selected Research
+**Research Areas**
+- **AI Agents & Financial Research** — LLM-based agents, multi-agent systems, and deep research for financial analysis and decision-making.
+- **Quantitative Finance & Alpha Discovery** — Code-based alpha mining, factor research, quantitative strategies, and systematic investment.
+- **Financial Forecasting & Evaluation** — Financial prediction, temporal evaluation, and rigorous benchmarks for AI systems.
+- **Financial Data & Research Infrastructure** — Curated datasets, reproducible workflows, and open-source tools for financial AI.
 
+**Selected Research**
 - **CogAlpha** — An LLM-driven framework combining financial reasoning and code-based evolutionary search for automated alpha discovery. [Paper](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.538/) · [PDF](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.538.pdf) · [Code](https://github.com/OpenFinMind/CogAlpha_Prompt) · ACL 2026.
+- **X-Alpha** — An AI Quant Researcher that integrates report-grounded financial knowledge and persistent discovery feedback into a closed-loop hypothesis-to-code research process. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08332) · arXiv:2607.08332.
+- **FinForesight** — A diagnostic benchmark evaluating the financial forecasting capabilities of deep research systems across CN, US, and HK markets. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01621) · [Code & Benchmark](https://github.com/OpenFinMind/FinForesight) · arXiv:2611.01621.
 
-- **X-Alpha** — A memory-driven AI Quant Researcher that transforms financial knowledge and accumulated research experience into continuous hypothesis-to-code alpha discovery. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08332) · arXiv:2607.08332.
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-- **FinForesight** — A diagnostic benchmark evaluating the financial forecasting capabilities of deep research systems across CN, US, and HK markets through four forecasting tasks and two diagnostic tasks. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.01621) · [Code & Benchmark](https://github.com/OpenFinMind/FinForesight) · arXiv:2611.01621.
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-## Open Research & Resources
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-We develop and share open-source projects, datasets, benchmarks, models, and tools to support reproducible financial AI research.
+**Open Research & Resources**
 
-- [GitHub](https://github.com/OpenFinMind) · [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/OpenFinMind)
+We develop and share research projects, datasets, benchmarks, models, and tools to support reproducible and collaborative financial AI research. [GitHub](https://github.com/OpenFinMind) · [Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/OpenFinMind).
 
-## Collaboration
+**Open Collaboration**
 
 We welcome researchers, developers, and practitioners interested in AI for finance to explore our projects, share resources, and contribute to open research.