arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 30

TriageRA-CCF: Source-Side Clinical Confidence and Coverage Signals for Adaptive Rank Budgeting in Medical LLMs

The paper introduces TriageRA-CCF, a method for adaptively allocating low‑rank LoRA channels in medical large language models based on source‑side signals: answer confidence, clinical coverage, and a counterfactual close‑miss proxy. By supervising a budget router that selects among 2, 4, or 8 active ranks, the approach improves average accuracy over existing LoRA variants on Qwen3‑8B and Llama3.1‑8B, though gains vary across benchmarks. Ablation studies confirm that each signal contributes to better budget decisions, though their combined effect is not uniformly superior across all backbones.

By Shucan Ji, Yining Huang, Hongliang Guo