Release notes

hila v4.2 release notes

Deep analysis mode

Deep analysis mode allows you to ask questions that require more complex reasoning and analysis. This mode is useful for advanced users who want to perform in-depth analysis on their data.

To enable deep analysis mode, click the Analysis toggle in the conversation pane.

See Deep analysis mode for more information.
Balance sheet analysis

hila now supports balance sheet analysis, allowing you to ask questions about your company’s assets, liabilities, and equity. This is useful for understanding the financial health of your organization.

See Balance sheet analysis for more information.

The disambiguation feature has the following known problems for this release:
- Low tolerance for typos. A change in a letter or change in the case of a letter can result in a mapping to a different entity, leading to a different response. Using consistent spelling (in names, for example) helps disambiguation work more effectively.
- When the entity has partial matches, hila shows a few in the UI and provides a link to see all relevant fields. However, this list of all relevant fields is capped at 10, so if there are more than 10 matches, the one you are interested in may not be shown. This may impact follow-up disambiguation questions where an entity is available the first time but not in the follow-up question. We are working to resolve this issue in subsequent releases.
- After you disambiguate an entity and then ask a follow-up question, the disambiguation in some cases does not persist, and hila asks you to disambiguate again. You can disambiguate again or ask about the entity more clearly.

Custom questions

Custom questions are user-defined questions designed to address specific business metrics or domain-specific terminologies and help fill gaps between the system’s built-in capabilities and the users’ specialized insights.

See Custom questions for more information.
Column header controls

You can now control the width of table columns, hide/show columns, and pin columns to the left or right side of the table. This is useful for large tables where you want to keep certain columns visible while scrolling through the data.
DeepSeek model support

hila now supports the DeepSeek model for conversational analytics.

See Configure DeepSeek models for more information.
Feedback on answers and results

When you click the thumbs-down icon for a question, a dialog box appears for you to provide detailed feedback on the problem. This helps improve the quality of the answers and results over time.

See Feedback on answers and results for more information.
Metadata UI

hila metadata is the object that defines the elements required to run the hila system. These elements include database connections, LLM and embedding models, and database table schemas, among others.

The metadata appears in the hila UI in the Data source list.

You can edit metadata, clone existing metadata, or create new metadata.

See Manage metadata for more information.

Disambiguation may not correctly highlight whether it uses fiscal year or calendar year to answer a question.

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