Are Clinical T5 Models Better for Clinical Text?

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Hauptverfasser: Li, Yahan, Harrigian, Keith, Zirikly, Ayah, Dredze, Mark
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author Li, Yahan
Harrigian, Keith
Zirikly, Ayah
Dredze, Mark
author_facet Li, Yahan
Harrigian, Keith
Zirikly, Ayah
Dredze, Mark
contents Large language models with a transformer-based encoder/decoder architecture, such as T5, have become standard platforms for supervised tasks. To bring these technologies to the clinical domain, recent work has trained new or adapted existing models to clinical data. However, the evaluation of these clinical T5 models and comparison to other models has been limited. Are the clinical T5 models better choices than FLAN-tuned generic T5 models? Do they generalize better to new clinical domains that differ from the training sets? We comprehensively evaluate these models across several clinical tasks and domains. We find that clinical T5 models provide marginal improvements over existing models, and perform worse when evaluated on different domains. Our results inform future choices in developing clinical LLMs.
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spellingShingle Are Clinical T5 Models Better for Clinical Text?
Li, Yahan
Harrigian, Keith
Zirikly, Ayah
Dredze, Mark
Computation and Language
Large language models with a transformer-based encoder/decoder architecture, such as T5, have become standard platforms for supervised tasks. To bring these technologies to the clinical domain, recent work has trained new or adapted existing models to clinical data. However, the evaluation of these clinical T5 models and comparison to other models has been limited. Are the clinical T5 models better choices than FLAN-tuned generic T5 models? Do they generalize better to new clinical domains that differ from the training sets? We comprehensively evaluate these models across several clinical tasks and domains. We find that clinical T5 models provide marginal improvements over existing models, and perform worse when evaluated on different domains. Our results inform future choices in developing clinical LLMs.
title Are Clinical T5 Models Better for Clinical Text?
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.05845