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Main Authors: Lim, Yooseok, Jeon, ByoungJun, Park, Seong-A, Lee, Jisoo, Choi, Sae Won, Jeong, Chang Wook, Ryu, Ho-Geol, Lee, Hongyeol, Yang, Hyun-Lim
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07681
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author Lim, Yooseok
Jeon, ByoungJun
Park, Seong-A
Lee, Jisoo
Choi, Sae Won
Jeong, Chang Wook
Ryu, Ho-Geol
Lee, Hongyeol
Yang, Hyun-Lim
author_facet Lim, Yooseok
Jeon, ByoungJun
Park, Seong-A
Lee, Jisoo
Choi, Sae Won
Jeong, Chang Wook
Ryu, Ho-Geol
Lee, Hongyeol
Yang, Hyun-Lim
contents Sepsis, a life-threatening inflammatory response to infection, causes organ dysfunction, making early detection and optimal management critical. Previous reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to sepsis management rely primarily on structured data, such as lab results or vital signs, and on a dearth of a comprehensive understanding of the patient's condition. In this work, we propose a Multimodal Offline REinforcement learning for Clinical notes Leveraged Enhanced stAte Representation (MORE-CLEAR) framework for sepsis control in intensive care units. MORE-CLEAR employs pre-trained large-scale language models (LLMs) to facilitate the extraction of rich semantic representations from clinical notes, preserving clinical context and improving patient state representation. Gated fusion and cross-modal attention allow dynamic weight adjustment in the context of time and the effective integration of multimodal data. Extensive cross-validation using two public (MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV) and one private dataset demonstrates that MORE-CLEAR significantly improves estimated survival rate and policy performance compared to single-modal RL approaches. To our knowledge, this is the first to leverage LLM capabilities within a multimodal offline RL for better state representation in medical applications. This approach can potentially expedite the treatment and management of sepsis by enabling reinforcement learning models to propose enhanced actions based on a more comprehensive understanding of patient conditions.
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spellingShingle MORE-CLEAR: Multimodal Offline Reinforcement learning for Clinical notes Leveraged Enhanced State Representation
Lim, Yooseok
Jeon, ByoungJun
Park, Seong-A
Lee, Jisoo
Choi, Sae Won
Jeong, Chang Wook
Ryu, Ho-Geol
Lee, Hongyeol
Yang, Hyun-Lim
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Sepsis, a life-threatening inflammatory response to infection, causes organ dysfunction, making early detection and optimal management critical. Previous reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to sepsis management rely primarily on structured data, such as lab results or vital signs, and on a dearth of a comprehensive understanding of the patient's condition. In this work, we propose a Multimodal Offline REinforcement learning for Clinical notes Leveraged Enhanced stAte Representation (MORE-CLEAR) framework for sepsis control in intensive care units. MORE-CLEAR employs pre-trained large-scale language models (LLMs) to facilitate the extraction of rich semantic representations from clinical notes, preserving clinical context and improving patient state representation. Gated fusion and cross-modal attention allow dynamic weight adjustment in the context of time and the effective integration of multimodal data. Extensive cross-validation using two public (MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV) and one private dataset demonstrates that MORE-CLEAR significantly improves estimated survival rate and policy performance compared to single-modal RL approaches. To our knowledge, this is the first to leverage LLM capabilities within a multimodal offline RL for better state representation in medical applications. This approach can potentially expedite the treatment and management of sepsis by enabling reinforcement learning models to propose enhanced actions based on a more comprehensive understanding of patient conditions.
title MORE-CLEAR: Multimodal Offline Reinforcement learning for Clinical notes Leveraged Enhanced State Representation
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07681