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Main Authors: Wang, Guoxin, Gao, Minyu, Yang, Shuai, Zhang, Ya, He, Lizhi, Huang, Liang, Xiao, Hanlin, Zhang, Yexuan, Li, Wanyue, Chen, Lu, Fei, Jintao, Li, Xin
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18274
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author Wang, Guoxin
Gao, Minyu
Yang, Shuai
Zhang, Ya
He, Lizhi
Huang, Liang
Xiao, Hanlin
Zhang, Yexuan
Li, Wanyue
Chen, Lu
Fei, Jintao
Li, Xin
author_facet Wang, Guoxin
Gao, Minyu
Yang, Shuai
Zhang, Ya
He, Lizhi
Huang, Liang
Xiao, Hanlin
Zhang, Yexuan
Li, Wanyue
Chen, Lu
Fei, Jintao
Li, Xin
contents Large language models (LLMs), particularly those with reasoning capabilities, have rapidly advanced in recent years, demonstrating significant potential across a wide range of applications. However, their deployment in healthcare, especially in disease reasoning tasks, is hindered by the challenge of acquiring expert-level cognitive data. In this paper, we introduce Citrus, a medical language model that bridges the gap between clinical expertise and AI reasoning by emulating the cognitive processes of medical experts. The model is trained on a large corpus of simulated expert disease reasoning data, synthesized using a novel approach that accurately captures the decision-making pathways of clinicians. This approach enables Citrus to better simulate the complex reasoning processes involved in diagnosing and treating medical conditions. To further address the lack of publicly available datasets for medical reasoning tasks, we release the last-stage training data, including a custom-built medical diagnostic dialogue dataset. This open-source contribution aims to support further research and development in the field. Evaluations using authoritative benchmarks such as MedQA, covering tasks in medical reasoning and language understanding, show that Citrus achieves superior performance compared to other models of similar size. These results highlight Citrus potential to significantly enhance medical decision support systems, providing a more accurate and efficient tool for clinical decision-making.
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spellingShingle Citrus: Leveraging Expert Cognitive Pathways in a Medical Language Model for Advanced Medical Decision Support
Wang, Guoxin
Gao, Minyu
Yang, Shuai
Zhang, Ya
He, Lizhi
Huang, Liang
Xiao, Hanlin
Zhang, Yexuan
Li, Wanyue
Chen, Lu
Fei, Jintao
Li, Xin
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Large language models (LLMs), particularly those with reasoning capabilities, have rapidly advanced in recent years, demonstrating significant potential across a wide range of applications. However, their deployment in healthcare, especially in disease reasoning tasks, is hindered by the challenge of acquiring expert-level cognitive data. In this paper, we introduce Citrus, a medical language model that bridges the gap between clinical expertise and AI reasoning by emulating the cognitive processes of medical experts. The model is trained on a large corpus of simulated expert disease reasoning data, synthesized using a novel approach that accurately captures the decision-making pathways of clinicians. This approach enables Citrus to better simulate the complex reasoning processes involved in diagnosing and treating medical conditions. To further address the lack of publicly available datasets for medical reasoning tasks, we release the last-stage training data, including a custom-built medical diagnostic dialogue dataset. This open-source contribution aims to support further research and development in the field. Evaluations using authoritative benchmarks such as MedQA, covering tasks in medical reasoning and language understanding, show that Citrus achieves superior performance compared to other models of similar size. These results highlight Citrus potential to significantly enhance medical decision support systems, providing a more accurate and efficient tool for clinical decision-making.
title Citrus: Leveraging Expert Cognitive Pathways in a Medical Language Model for Advanced Medical Decision Support
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18274