We evaluate whether AI agents can match the reported findings of published biomedical studies using public data. Existing evaluations do not consistently separate analysis from prior knowledge or retr...
BioStudyBench is a new benchmark that tests AI agents on 25 long‑horizon analysis tasks derived from biomedical studies published between July and September 2026, after the models’ knowledge cutoffs. Each task gives the agent a neutral research question but no data files, requiring it to locate and download relevant public data, search literature using tools limited to pre‑cutoff records, and perform data analysis to report findings. The benchmark shows that providing data and tools improves model performance by an average of 47 percentage points, with closed‑weight models outperforming open‑weight ones (best open‑weight 81.3% vs. best closed‑weight 94.7%).
By David Li, Shaamil Karim, Christian Gensbigler
arXiv:2608.23248v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Traditional clinical prediction models rely on task-specific pipelines and curated, structured data, which scale poorly and underutilize unstructured...
By Siri Willems, James Butterworth, Lore Goetschalckx, Peter Vrancx, Philippe Modard, Elke Giets, Ludovic Denoyer
arXiv:2607. 28788v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical diagnosis at hospital admission must be made rapidly from limited, incomplete evidence.
By Jiahui Li, Ruili Fang, Zishuai Liu, Yutong Guo, Nan Yang, Wenzhan Song, Jin Lu, Fei Dou
ClinAgent is a conversational system that uses a ReAct-based LLM agent to retrieve and synthesize clinical trial information from multiple sources such as ClinicalTrials.gov, PubMed, and a local dataset. The agent iteratively reasons over user queries, selects appropriate tools, and refines its actions to provide grounded, up-to-date responses in natural language across multi-turn interactions. Evaluation across three phases shows that DeepSeek (thinking mode) excels in planning quality while Gemini 3.0 Flash delivers the highest overall performance and expert ratings, demonstrating the promise of agentic AI for improving clinical trial data access.
By Antonino Vaccarella, Riccardo Cantini, Domenico Talia, Paolo Trunfio, Marianna Talia, Rosamaria Lappano, Marcello Maggiolini
The paper introduces Tasks over Application Manuals (TAM), a benchmark designed to test long‑horizon procedural reasoning in large language models. TAM uses real‑world tasks from ICD‑10‑CM clinical coding and U.S. federal sentencing, requiring models to follow extensive, rule‑based manuals and perform interdependent steps to produce exact answers. Experiments with GPT‑5 and various prompting strategies show very low exact‑match accuracy—1% for coding and 15.5% for sentencing—highlighting a gap between current benchmarks and the ability to reliably follow complex procedures.
By Utkarsh Soni, Syed Shariyar Murtaza, Yifan Nie, Sachin Chandrasekhar, Eugene Wen
The paper introduces ICD-Deepresearch, a workflow that combines foundation models for electronic health records (EHR) and language models with medical search and ICD dictionaries to forecast future ICD codes for upcoming clinical encounters. It evaluates candidate code transitions by linking patient evidence, external clinical relations, and exact code semantics within a fixed top‑K budget, using SparseEHR for initial priors, GPT‑5 for complementary forecasts, and a final selection step that validates, deduplicates, and ranks candidates. The method achieves patient‑averaged precision/recall of 24.60/35.09% on MIMIC‑III and 25.14/48.32% on MIMIC‑IV, with physicians rating 51–68% of its retrieved documents as useful, outperforming standalone GPT‑5 web search and Medical Deep Research.
By Junda Wang, Meysam Ghaffari, Akshat Choube, Mohsen Sharifi Renani, Hong Yu, Carlos Morato
arXiv:2609.01202v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Clinical trials are essential for advancing cancer care and drug development, but many fail because of insufficient patient enrollment. While there i...
By Yin Fang, Qiao Jin, Shubo Tian, Lauren He, Maya Geer, Noor Naffakh, Ryan Huu-Tuan Nguyen, Zifeng Wang, Jimeng Sun, Charalampos S. Floudas, James L. Gulley, Kamilia Moalem, Catarina Martins Maia, Amanda Nottke, Juan W. Valle, Melinda Bachini, Lourdes Rocha-Nussbaum, Kari Ramage, Nikita Curry, Megan Barnes, Mandy Mansaray, Darlene Gabeau, Craig E. Grossman, Heath Skinner, Michael Burczynski, NIH-TrialBench Consortium, Zhiyong Lu
arXiv:2509. 23426v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: AI scientists are emerging computational systems that serve as collaborative partners in discovery.
By Shanghua Gao, Richard Zhu, Pengwei Sui, Zhenglun Kong, Sufian Aldogom, Yepeng Huang, Ayush Noori, Reza Shamji, Krishna Parvataneni, Theodoros Tsiligkaridis, Marinka Zitnik
arXiv:2606. 29746v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Navigating the deluge of heterogeneous medical data, from academic literature (PubMed) to clinical guidelines (Web) and private knowledge bases, remains a critical bottleneck for evidence-based medicine.
By Maolin Liu, Fanyu Xu, Ruoqing Xu, Jiahang Zhang, Hao Wang, Rui Wang
arXiv:2601. 06300v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Clinical trial amendments frequently introduce delays, increased costs, and administrative burden, with eligibility criteria being the most commonly amended component.
By Trisha Das, Mandis Beigi, Jacob Aptekar, Jimeng Sun
arXiv:2505. 14107v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The emergence of groundbreaking large language models capable of performing complex reasoning tasks holds significant promise for addressing various scientific challenges, including those arising in complex clinical scenarios.
By Yakun Zhu, Zhongzhen Huang, Linjie Mu, Yutong Huang, Wei Nie, Jiaji Liu, Shaoting Zhang, Pengfei Liu, Xiaofan Zhang