A Survey on Large Language Models from General Purpose to Medical Applications: Datasets, Methodologies, and Evaluations

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Main Authors: Wang, Jinqiang, Ning, Huansheng, Peng, Yi, Wei, Qikai, Tesfai, Daniel, Mao, Wenwei, Zhu, Tao, Huang, Runhe
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author Wang, Jinqiang
Ning, Huansheng
Peng, Yi
Wei, Qikai
Tesfai, Daniel
Mao, Wenwei
Zhu, Tao
Huang, Runhe
author_facet Wang, Jinqiang
Ning, Huansheng
Peng, Yi
Wei, Qikai
Tesfai, Daniel
Mao, Wenwei
Zhu, Tao
Huang, Runhe
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated surprising performance across various natural language processing tasks. Recently, medical LLMs enhanced with domain-specific knowledge have exhibited excellent capabilities in medical consultation and diagnosis. These models can smoothly simulate doctor-patient dialogues and provide professional medical advice. Most medical LLMs are developed through continued training of open-source general LLMs, which require significantly fewer computational resources than training LLMs from scratch. Additionally, this approach offers better patient privacy protection than API-based solutions. Given the above advantages, this survey systematically summarizes how to train medical LLMs based on open-source general LLMs from a more fine-grained perspective. It covers (a) how to acquire training corpus and construct customized medical training sets, (b) how to choose an appropriate training paradigm, (c) how to choose a suitable evaluation benchmark, and (d) existing challenges and promising research directions are discussed. This survey can provide guidance for the development of LLMs focused on various medical applications, such as medical education, diagnostic planning, and clinical assistants. Related resources and supplemental information can be found on the GitHub repository.
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spellingShingle A Survey on Large Language Models from General Purpose to Medical Applications: Datasets, Methodologies, and Evaluations
Wang, Jinqiang
Ning, Huansheng
Peng, Yi
Wei, Qikai
Tesfai, Daniel
Mao, Wenwei
Zhu, Tao
Huang, Runhe
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated surprising performance across various natural language processing tasks. Recently, medical LLMs enhanced with domain-specific knowledge have exhibited excellent capabilities in medical consultation and diagnosis. These models can smoothly simulate doctor-patient dialogues and provide professional medical advice. Most medical LLMs are developed through continued training of open-source general LLMs, which require significantly fewer computational resources than training LLMs from scratch. Additionally, this approach offers better patient privacy protection than API-based solutions. Given the above advantages, this survey systematically summarizes how to train medical LLMs based on open-source general LLMs from a more fine-grained perspective. It covers (a) how to acquire training corpus and construct customized medical training sets, (b) how to choose an appropriate training paradigm, (c) how to choose a suitable evaluation benchmark, and (d) existing challenges and promising research directions are discussed. This survey can provide guidance for the development of LLMs focused on various medical applications, such as medical education, diagnostic planning, and clinical assistants. Related resources and supplemental information can be found on the GitHub repository.
title A Survey on Large Language Models from General Purpose to Medical Applications: Datasets, Methodologies, and Evaluations
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10303