The paper introduces SMART‑Med, a local multi‑agent system for medical reasoning that learns when to collaborate instead of always engaging all agents. By using an uncertainty‑driven routing mechanism, it selectively recruits expert agents only for uncertain queries, thereby converting dense collaboration into query‑adaptive coordination. The authors also present a new multimodal dataset, MedVR‑3K, and demonstrate that SMART‑Med matches or surpasses existing multi‑agent approaches while cutting inference time by over 3.8× and token usage by 72%, with a 6.7% average accuracy gain across four VQA benchmarks.
arXiv:2505. 23399v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose GAM-Agent, a game-theoretic multi-agent framework for enhancing vision-language reasoning.
MedResearcher‑R1 is a medical deep‑research agent that uses a Knowledge‑Informed Trajectory Synthesis (KISA) framework to build medical knowledge graphs and generate complex multi‑hop question‑answer pairs, especially for rare medical entities. It also incorporates a medical retrieval engine and general‑purpose tools to reliably synthesize medical evidence. The resulting 2,100+ trajectories across 12 specialties enable supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning, producing a 32B model that outperforms larger proprietary systems on MedBrowseComp and shows strong performance on GAIA and xBench benchmarks.
The paper introduces a challenge‑aware adaptive recruitment system for medical multi‑agent reasoning. An external CHALLENGER monitors the evolving reasoning trace to detect factual or expertise gaps, triggering targeted knowledge retrieval or specialist recruitment mid‑discussion. Experiments on the MEDAGENTSBENCH hard subset show that challenge‑aware in‑between retrieval and Challenger‑triggered specialist recruitment improve accuracy, while naive combinations degrade performance, underscoring the importance of timing and coordination in resource recruitment.
arXiv:2606. 15419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Objective: To enhance the accuracy, interpretability, and robustness of large language models (LLMs) in medical question answering (MedQA).
Lingshu is a medical‑specialized multimodal large language model that addresses key limitations of existing medical MLLMs, such as narrow knowledge coverage, hallucinations, and weak reasoning. The authors curate a comprehensive dataset combining medical imaging, texts, and general‑domain data, then train Lingshu in multiple stages to embed medical expertise and improve task performance. They also introduce MedEvalKit, a unified evaluation framework, and demonstrate that Lingshu outperforms current open‑source multimodal models on multimodal QA, text‑based QA, and medical report generation.
The paper introduces a multi-agent peer‑reviewed reasoning approach for medical question answering, where several large language models independently generate chain‑of‑thought explanations and then evaluate each other’s reasoning for factual correctness and logical soundness. The highest‑rated reasoning chain is used to produce the final answer. Experiments with five state‑of‑the‑art LLMs on three benchmark datasets show that this method consistently outperforms single‑model chain‑of‑thought reasoning and majority voting ensembles, achieving an average accuracy of 0.820 versus 0.777 for the best single model.
arXiv:2608. 14015v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding tens-of-minutes surgical videos requires long-horizon temporal reasoning, answering what happens before, after, or across stages of a procedure by grounding the question in visual evidence spread across time.
arXiv:2607. 09623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present our submission to the QANTA 2026 shared challenge at the ICML 2026 Workshop on Efficient Multimodal Question Answering (EMM-QA).
arXiv:2607. 15280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sequential diagnosis requires balancing diagnostic accuracy against resource costs through iterative information gathering.
arXiv:2610.08327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in medical question answering and clinical reasoning, yet their improvement remains constrained by stat...
SurgRAW introduces a multi‑agent, chain‑of‑thought workflow for robotic surgical video analysis, leveraging a new SurgCoTBench benchmark with 14,256 QA pairs across five surgical tasks. The system uses an orchestrator to split scene understanding into two reasoning streams, panel‑discussion‑style collaboration among task‑specific agents, and retrieval‑augmented generation to incorporate surgical knowledge. Experiments show SurgRAW outperforms mainstream vision‑language models and a supervised baseline by 14.61% accuracy.
arXiv:2604. 11741v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in perceptual tasks, yet they degrade in complex multi-hop reasoning under multiplayer game settings with imperfect and deceptive information.