FinDS-Agent: A Cloud–Edge Collaborative Data Science Agent for Financial Analytics
Large language model agents can automate data science workflows, but cloud-centric deployment exposes sensitive context and edge-only deployment limits analytical capability. We present FinDS-Agent, a cloud–edge framework that keeps raw records and program execution at the trusted edge while providing a policy-screened, sanitized context to support cloud planning. FinDS-Agent integrates a Three-Stage Cascaded Privacy Gate (TCPG), a Multi-Dimensional Joint Router (MJR), contract-guided ToolGraph planning, edge-side verification, and bounded repair. On 222 DataSciBench tasks over three runs, FinDS-Agent achieved a 69.93% completion rate and 57.06% success rate, improving over Edge-Only by 9.50 and 5.71 percentage points while invoking the cloud for 32.27% of eligible task-runs. On FinDS-Privacy-Bench, TCPG increased sensitive-field recall from 58.20% to 98.10%; no payload-leakage event was observed in the full set (0/200; Wilson 95% CI: 0–1.8845%) or blind split (0/100; 0–3.6993%) under the specified audit and threat model. External evaluation gave pass rates of 33.2%, 53.1%, and 62.3% for Edge-Only, FinDS-Agent, and Cloud-Only on DS-1000. These empirical results support selective cloud planning while delimiting statistical, privacy, and transfer claims.