arXiv AI

From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG

arXiv:2603. 03292v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit high reasoning capacity in medical question-answering, but their tendency to produce hallucinations and outdated knowledge poses critical risks in healthcare fields.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

MedicalAgentsBench for Complex Medical Reasoning: Comparing Internalized Reasoning Models versus Externalized Agent-based Frameworks

arXiv:2503. 07459v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Complex medical reasoning requires integrating heterogeneous clinical evidence across multiple inference steps.

By Yanjun Shao, Xiangru Tang, Jiwoong Sohn, Jiapeng Chen, Yuxuan Liao, Jiayi Zhang, Jinyu Xiang, Fang Wu, Yilun Zhao, Chenglin Wu, Wenqi Shi, Arman Cohan, Mark Gerstein
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Teaching LLMs How ICU Physicians Approach Clinical Reasoning Through OMOP-Aligned Retrieval Improves Reasoning Across Clinical Domains

arXiv:2608.22622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical decision-making relies on identifying relevant patient information to guide diagnosis and treatment, a challenge that is especially difficul...

By Miguel Contreras, Scott Siegel, Subhash Nerella, Jessica Sena, Jiaqing Zhang, Heng Sun, Hruday Tej Akkaladevi, Peiyu Lu, Jordan Rosen, Sumit Kapoor, Sasank Desaraju, Grace R. Thompson, Jacob Purcell, Michael Petrauskis, Philip KW. Hong, Meghan Brennan, Sarah Chrabaszcz, Tierra Smith, Ronnie Ren, Michel S. Kabbash, Ceyhun Haziroglu, Rushi Patel, Gabriel Gomez, Charlotte Chaiklin, Randy Leung, Kenneth N. John, Whitman Wiggins, Philip Kayser, Vincent Bird, Maria Bruzzone, Tyler J. Loftus, Azra Bihorac, Parisa Rashidi
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Constructing and Evaluating Clinical Reasoning Trajectories for Medical Agent

The paper introduces MedTraj, a framework that constructs, evaluates, and optimizes multi‑step reasoning trajectories for medical AI agents. It parses each trajectory into observations, evidence, numbered steps, and a conclusion, scoring them on coherence, evidence support, hallucination, completeness, and traceability. Experiments on CareQA, PubMedQA, and CECMed show that incorporating quality‑weighted trajectory context improves reasoning coherence and correctness while significantly reducing hallucinations.

By Yunqi Zhu, Wensheng Zhang, Xuebing Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 18

DiagnosisArena: Benchmarking Diagnostic Reasoning for Large Language Models

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
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Multilingual Medical Reasoning for Question Answering with Large Language Models

The paper introduces a method for generating multilingual reasoning traces for medical question answering using large language models. It creates 500,000 reasoning traces in English, Italian, and Spanish by retrieving medical information from Wikipedia and applies them to MedQA and MedMCQA datasets extended into Italian and Spanish. The approach improves performance in both few‑shot in‑context learning and supervised fine‑tuning, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results for 8B‑parameter LLMs and releasing all resources for further research.

By Pietro Ferrazzi, Aitor Soroa, Rodrigo Agerri