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Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce explanations that do not faithfully reflect the factors driving their predictions. In healthcare settings, such unfaithfulness is especially problematic: explanations that omit salient clinical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Teague McMillan , Gabriele Dominici , Martin Gjoreski , Marc Langheinrich

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable adaptability, showcasing their capacity to excel in tasks for which they were not explicitly trained. However, despite their impressive natural language processing (NLP)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Supun Manathunga , Isuru Hettigoda

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has opened new frontiers in natural language processing, particularly in specialized domains like healthcare. In this paper, we propose the Incremental Curriculum-Based Fine-Tuning (ICFT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Robert Long , Eric Gonzalez , Harrison Fuller

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance in generating human-like text, proving to be a valuable asset across various applications. However, adapting these models to incorporate new, out-of-domain…

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate exceptional performance on general-purpose tasks. however, transferring them to complex engineering domains such as space situational awareness (SSA) remains challenging owing to insufficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ding Linghu , Cheng Wang , Da Fan , Wei Shi , Kaifeng Yin , Xiaoliang Xue , Fan Yang , Haiyi Ren , Cong Zhang

Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) utilize evidence-based knowledge and patient data to offer real-time recommendations, with Large Language Models (LLMs) emerging as a promising tool to generate plain-text explanations for medical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 D. Umerenkov , G. Zubkova , A. Nesterov

LLMs have demonstrated impressive performance in answering medical questions, such as achieving passing scores on medical licensing examinations. However, medical board exams or general clinical questions do not capture the complexity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hanjie Chen , Zhouxiang Fang , Yash Singla , Mark Dredze

Counterfactual explanations (CFEs) provide human-centric interpretability by identifying the minimal, actionable changes required to alter a machine learning model's prediction. Therefore, CFs can be used as (i) interventions for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Shovito Barua Soumma , Asiful Arefeen , Stephanie M. Carpenter , Melanie Hingle , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Patients are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) with medical questions that are complex and difficult to articulate clearly. However, LLMs are sensitive to prompt phrasings and can be influenced by the way questions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Hye Sun Yun , Geetika Kapoor , Michael Mackert , Ramez Kouzy , Wei Xu , Junyi Jessy Li , Byron C. Wallace

Large language models (LLMs) are approaching expert-level performance in medical question answering (QA), demonstrating strong potential to improve public healthcare. However, underlying biases related to sensitive attributes such as sex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ying Xiao , Jie Huang , Ruijuan He , Jing Xiao , Mohammad Reza Mousavi , Yepang Liu , Kezhi Li , Zhenpeng Chen , Jie M. Zhang

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a common approach to improve the domain-specific question-answering (QA) performance of large language models (LLMs). However, recent literature reveals that due to the conflicts between LLMs' internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Qihuang Zhong , Liang Ding , Xiantao Cai , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Engineering LLMs to accelerate life sciences research requires a robust alignment with biomedical knowledge. We observe that biomedical text exhibits a fundamentally different uncertainty structure from general text: dense low-confidence…

This paper presents the overview of the development and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) designed specifically for answering medical questions. We are mainly improving the accuracy and efficiency of providing reliable answers to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Aysegul Ucar , Soumik Nayak , Anunak Roy , Burak Taşcı , Gülay Taşcı

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly evident for accurate question answering across various domains. However, rigorous evaluation of their performance on complex question-answering (QA) capabilities is essential before deployment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Reem Abdel-Salam , Mary Adewunmi , Modinat A. Abayomi

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have transformed the field of question answering (QA). However, evaluating LLMs in the medical field is challenging due to the lack of standardized and comprehensive datasets. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Junling Liu , Peilin Zhou , Yining Hua , Dading Chong , Zhongyu Tian , Andrew Liu , Helin Wang , Chenyu You , Zhenhua Guo , Lei Zhu , Michael Lingzhi Li

Clinical Question Answering (CQA) plays a crucial role in medical decision-making, enabling physicians to extract relevant information from Electronic Medical Records (EMRs). While transformer-based models such as BERT, BioBERT, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Amit Agarwal , Bhargava Kumar , Srikant Panda , Tejaswini Kumar

Integrating large language models (LLMs) into healthcare holds great potential but faces challenges. Pre-training LLMs from scratch for domains like medicine is resource-heavy and often unfeasible. On the other hand, sole reliance on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Qichen Ye , Junling Liu , Dading Chong , Peilin Zhou , Yining Hua , Fenglin Liu , Meng Cao , Ziming Wang , Xuxin Cheng , Zhu Lei , Zhenhua Guo

There is increasing interest in the application large language models (LLMs) to the medical field, in part because of their impressive performance on medical exam questions. While promising, exam questions do not reflect the complexity of…

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in medical applications such as disease diagnosis and treatment planning. However, most existing medical LLMs struggle with the deep reasoning required for complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hongzhou Yu , Tianhao Cheng , Yingwen Wang , Wen He , Qing Wang , Ying Cheng , Yuejie Zhang , Rui Feng , Xiaobo Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) have the potential to transform medicine, but real-world clinical scenarios contain extraneous information that can hinder performance. The rise of assistive technologies like ambient dictation, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Krithik Vishwanath , Anton Alyakin , Daniel Alexander Alber , Jin Vivian Lee , Douglas Kondziolka , Eric Karl Oermann