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Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has recently garnered attention as a prominent research focus. By harnessing powerful LLM, it facilitates a transition of conversational generative AI from unimodal text to performing multimodal tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Xuechen Guo , Wenhao Chai , Shi-Yan Li , Gaoang Wang

Electronic Health Records (EHRs), which contain patients' medical histories in various multi-modal formats, often overlook the potential for joint reasoning across imaging and table modalities underexplored in current EHR Question Answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Seongsu Bae , Daeun Kyung , Jaehee Ryu , Eunbyeol Cho , Gyubok Lee , Sunjun Kweon , Jungwoo Oh , Lei Ji , Eric I-Chao Chang , Tackeun Kim , Edward Choi

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) and conversational assistants necessitates dynamic, scalable, and configurable conversational datasets for training and evaluation. These datasets must accommodate diverse user…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Ronak Pradeep , Daniel Lee , Ali Mousavi , Jeff Pound , Yisi Sang , Jimmy Lin , Ihab Ilyas , Saloni Potdar , Mostafa Arefiyan , Yunyao Li

In recent years, accurately and quickly deploying medical large language models (LLMs) has become a trend. Among these, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has garnered attention due to rapid deployment and privacy protection. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Penglei Sun , Yixiang Chen , Xiang Li , Xiaowen Chu

We present Clinical Camel, an open large language model (LLM) explicitly tailored for clinical research. Fine-tuned from LLaMA-2 using QLoRA, Clinical Camel achieves state-of-the-art performance across medical benchmarks among openly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Augustin Toma , Patrick R. Lawler , Jimmy Ba , Rahul G. Krishnan , Barry B. Rubin , Bo Wang

Medical dialogue systems are promising in assisting in telemedicine to increase access to healthcare services, improve the quality of patient care, and reduce medical costs. To facilitate the research and development of medical dialogue…

Reading and understanding text is one important component in computer aided diagnosis in clinical medicine, also being a major research problem in the field of NLP. In this work, we introduce a question-answering task called MedQA to study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Xiao Zhang , Ji Wu , Zhiyang He , Xien Liu , Ying Su

Most real-world knowledge graphs, including Wikidata, DBpedia, and Yago are incomplete. Answering queries on such incomplete graphs is an important, but challenging problem. Recently, a number of approaches, including complex query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-01 Caglar Demir , Michel Wiebesiek , Renzhong Lu , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo , Stefan Heindorf

Multimodal large language models (LLMs) have achieved notable success across various domains, while research in the medical field has largely focused on unimodal images. Meanwhile, current general-domain multimodal models for videos still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Jiajie Li , Garrett Skinner , Gene Yang , Brian R Quaranto , Steven D Schwaitzberg , Peter C W Kim , Jinjun Xiong

Question answering is a natural language understanding task that involves reasoning over both explicit context, and unstated relevant domain knowledge. Despite the high cost of training, large language models (LLMs) -- the backbone of most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Laura Cabello , Carmen Martin-Turrero , Uchenna Akujuobi , Anders Søgaard , Carlos Bobed

We introduce the world's first clinical terminology for the Chinese healthcare community, namely MedCT, accompanied by a clinical foundation model MedBERT and an entity linking model MedLink. The MedCT system enables standardized and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ye Chen , Dongdong Huang , Haoyun Xu , Cong Fu , Lin Sheng , Qingli Zhou , Yuqiang Shen , Kai Wang

How to better evaluate the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) is the focal point and hot topic in current LLMs research. Previous work has noted that due to the extremely high cost of iterative updates of LLMs, they are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhikun Xu , Yinghui Li , Ruixue Ding , Xinyu Wang , Boli Chen , Yong Jiang , Hai-Tao Zheng , Wenlian Lu , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang

This work deals with the challenge of learning and reasoning over multi-modal multi-hop question answering (QA). We propose a graph reasoning network based on the semantic structure of the sentences to learn multi-source reasoning paths and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Navya Yarrabelly , Saloni Mittal

Legal consultation question answering (Legal CQA) presents unique challenges compared to traditional legal QA tasks, including the scarcity of high-quality training data, complex task composition, and strong contextual dependencies. To…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mingfei Lu , Yi Zhang , Mengjia Wu , Yue Feng

Healthcare and medicine are multimodal disciplines that deal with multimodal data for reasoning and diagnosing multiple diseases. Although some multimodal reasoning models have emerged for reasoning complex tasks in scientific domains,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Susanta Mitra

Clinical Question Answering (QA) systems enable doctors to quickly access patient information from electronic health records (EHRs). However, training these systems requires significant annotated data, which is limited due to the expertise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Fan Bai , Keith Harrigian , Joel Stremmel , Hamid Hassanzadeh , Ardavan Saeedi , Mark Dredze

Unstructured clinical notes contain essential patient information but are challenging for physicians to search and interpret efficiently. Although large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in question answering (QA), most existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dina Albassam

One of the key goals of artificial intelligence (AI) is the development of a multimodal system that facilitates communication with the visual world (image and video) using a natural language query. Earlier works on medical question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Deepak Gupta , Dina Demner-Fushman

Most medical dialogue systems assume that patients have clear goals (medicine querying, surgical operation querying, etc.) before medical consultation. However, in many real scenarios, due to the lack of medical knowledge, it is usually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Xiaoming Shi , Zeming Liu , Chuan Wang , Haitao Leng , Kui Xue , Xiaofan Zhang , Shaoting Zhang

We present MCQA, a learning-based algorithm for multimodal question answering. MCQA explicitly fuses and aligns the multimodal input (i.e. text, audio, and video), which forms the context for the query (question and answer). Our approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Abhishek Kumar , Trisha Mittal , Dinesh Manocha