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EpiGraph: Building Generalists for Evidence-Intensive Epilepsy Reasoning in the Wild

Artificial Intelligence 2026-05-14 v2

Abstract

Epilepsy diagnosis and treatment require evidence-intensive reasoning across heterogeneous clinical knowledge, including biosignal patterns, genetic mechanisms, pharmacogenomics, treatment strategies, and patient outcomes. In this work, we present \textsc{EpiGraph}, a large-scale epilepsy knowledge graph and benchmark for evaluating knowledge-augmented clinical reasoning. \textsc{EpiGraph} integrates 48,166 peer-reviewed papers and seven clinical resources into a heterogeneous graph containing 24,324 entities and 32,009 evidence-grounded triplets across five clinical layers. Built upon this graph, \textsc{EpiBench} defines five clinically motivated tasks spanning clinical decision-making, EEG report generation, pharmacogenomic precision medicine, treatment recommendation, and deep research planning. We evaluate six LLMs under both standard and Graph-RAG settings. Results show that integrating \textsc{EpiGraph} consistently improves performance across all tasks, with the largest gains observed in pharmacogenomic reasoning (+30--41\%). Our findings demonstrate that structured epilepsy knowledge substantially enhances evidence-grounded clinical reasoning and provides a practical benchmark framework for evaluating knowledge-augmented LLMs in real-world neurological settings. Our code is available at: https://github.com/LabRAI/EEG-KG.

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@article{arxiv.2605.09505,
  title  = {EpiGraph: Building Generalists for Evidence-Intensive Epilepsy Reasoning in the Wild},
  author = {Yuyang Dai and Zheng Chen and Jathurshan Pradeepkumar and Yasuko Matsubara and Jimeng Sun and Yasushi Sakurai and Yushun Dong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.09505},
  year   = {2026}
}