Lightweight Large Language Model for Medication Enquiry: Med-Pal

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Autori principali: Elangovan, Kabilan, Ong, Jasmine Chiat Ling, Jin, Liyuan, Seng, Benjamin Jun Jie, Kwan, Yu Heng, Tan, Lit Soo, Zhong, Ryan Jian, Ma, Justina Koi Li, Ke, YuHe, Liu, Nan, Giacomini, Kathleen M, Ting, Daniel Shu Wei
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author Elangovan, Kabilan
Ong, Jasmine Chiat Ling
Jin, Liyuan
Seng, Benjamin Jun Jie
Kwan, Yu Heng
Tan, Lit Soo
Zhong, Ryan Jian
Ma, Justina Koi Li
Ke, YuHe
Liu, Nan
Giacomini, Kathleen M
Ting, Daniel Shu Wei
author_facet Elangovan, Kabilan
Ong, Jasmine Chiat Ling
Jin, Liyuan
Seng, Benjamin Jun Jie
Kwan, Yu Heng
Tan, Lit Soo
Zhong, Ryan Jian
Ma, Justina Koi Li
Ke, YuHe
Liu, Nan
Giacomini, Kathleen M
Ting, Daniel Shu Wei
contents Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a potential solution to assist digital health development with patient education, commonly medication-related enquires. We trained and validated Med-Pal, a medication domain-specific LLM-chatbot fine-tuned with a fine-grained and expert curated dataset from a selection of five light-weighted open-source LLMs of smaller parameter size (7 billion or less) regarding computational constraints and prioritizing operational efficiency. A multi-disciplinary team performed a clinical evaluation of LLMs responses using the SCORE criteria, focusing on safety, accuracy, bias, reproducibility, and ease of understanding. Best performing light-weighted LLM was chosen as Med-Pal for further engineering with guard-railing using adversarial prompting. Med-Pal and existing light-weighted LLMs, including pretrained Biomistral and finetuned Meerkat, were validated on an independent dataset on a broad range of medication-related questions (231 in total), 12 different question types across 14 different medication classes. Mistral-7b emerged as the top performer among selected lightweight LLMs, achieving the highest median score of 14 and 71.9% high-quality responses in accuracy and safety domains, hence chosen as the backbone LLM for Med-Pal. When compared against Biomistral, Med-pal outperformed in generating responses appropriate for patient communication, with significant reductions bias and errors typical of general LLMs. Comparable performance was observed when comparing Med-Pal with Meerkat. Med-Pal showcases the feasibility of developing and employing fine-tuned light-weighted LLMs to enhance digital health communications.
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spellingShingle Lightweight Large Language Model for Medication Enquiry: Med-Pal
Elangovan, Kabilan
Ong, Jasmine Chiat Ling
Jin, Liyuan
Seng, Benjamin Jun Jie
Kwan, Yu Heng
Tan, Lit Soo
Zhong, Ryan Jian
Ma, Justina Koi Li
Ke, YuHe
Liu, Nan
Giacomini, Kathleen M
Ting, Daniel Shu Wei
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a potential solution to assist digital health development with patient education, commonly medication-related enquires. We trained and validated Med-Pal, a medication domain-specific LLM-chatbot fine-tuned with a fine-grained and expert curated dataset from a selection of five light-weighted open-source LLMs of smaller parameter size (7 billion or less) regarding computational constraints and prioritizing operational efficiency. A multi-disciplinary team performed a clinical evaluation of LLMs responses using the SCORE criteria, focusing on safety, accuracy, bias, reproducibility, and ease of understanding. Best performing light-weighted LLM was chosen as Med-Pal for further engineering with guard-railing using adversarial prompting. Med-Pal and existing light-weighted LLMs, including pretrained Biomistral and finetuned Meerkat, were validated on an independent dataset on a broad range of medication-related questions (231 in total), 12 different question types across 14 different medication classes. Mistral-7b emerged as the top performer among selected lightweight LLMs, achieving the highest median score of 14 and 71.9% high-quality responses in accuracy and safety domains, hence chosen as the backbone LLM for Med-Pal. When compared against Biomistral, Med-pal outperformed in generating responses appropriate for patient communication, with significant reductions bias and errors typical of general LLMs. Comparable performance was observed when comparing Med-Pal with Meerkat. Med-Pal showcases the feasibility of developing and employing fine-tuned light-weighted LLMs to enhance digital health communications.
title Lightweight Large Language Model for Medication Enquiry: Med-Pal
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12822