MedResearcher-R1: Expert-Level Medical Deep Researcher via A Knowledge-Informed Trajectory Synthesis Framework

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Auteurs principaux: Yu, Ailing, Yao, Lan, Liu, Jingnan, Chen, Zhe, Yin, Jiajun, Wang, Yuan, Liao, Xinhao, Ye, Zhiling, Li, Ji, Yue, Yun, Xiao, Hansong, Zhou, Hualei, Guo, Chunxiao, Wei, Peng, Liu, Junwei, Gu, Jinjie
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author Yu, Ailing
Yao, Lan
Liu, Jingnan
Chen, Zhe
Yin, Jiajun
Wang, Yuan
Liao, Xinhao
Ye, Zhiling
Li, Ji
Yue, Yun
Xiao, Hansong
Zhou, Hualei
Guo, Chunxiao
Wei, Peng
Liu, Junwei
Gu, Jinjie
author_facet Yu, Ailing
Yao, Lan
Liu, Jingnan
Chen, Zhe
Yin, Jiajun
Wang, Yuan
Liao, Xinhao
Ye, Zhiling
Li, Ji
Yue, Yun
Xiao, Hansong
Zhou, Hualei
Guo, Chunxiao
Wei, Peng
Liu, Junwei
Gu, Jinjie
contents Recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown impressive capabilities spanning multiple domains, exemplified by deep research systems that demonstrate superior performance on complex information-seeking and synthesis tasks. While general-purpose deep research agents have shown impressive capabilities, they struggle significantly with medical domain challenges, as evidenced by leading proprietary systems achieving limited accuracy on complex medical benchmarks. The key limitations are: (1) the model lacks sufficient dense medical knowledge for clinical reasoning, and (2) the framework is constrained by the absence of specialized retrieval tools tailored for medical contexts. We present a medical deep research agent that addresses these challenges through two core innovations. First, we develop a novel data synthesis framework using medical knowledge graphs, extracting the longest chains from subgraphs around rare medical entities to generate complex multi-hop question-answer pairs. Second, we integrate a custom-built private medical retrieval engine alongside general-purpose tools, enabling accurate medical information synthesis. Our approach generates 2100+ diverse trajectories across 12 medical specialties, each averaging 4.2 tool interactions. Through a two-stage training paradigm combining supervised fine-tuning and online reinforcement learning with composite rewards, our MedResearcher-R1-32B model demonstrates exceptional performance, establishing new state-of-the-art results on medical benchmarks while maintaining competitive performance on general deep research tasks. Our work demonstrates that strategic domain-specific innovations in architecture, tool design, and training data construction can enable smaller open-source models to outperform much larger proprietary systems in specialized domains.
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spellingShingle MedResearcher-R1: Expert-Level Medical Deep Researcher via A Knowledge-Informed Trajectory Synthesis Framework
Yu, Ailing
Yao, Lan
Liu, Jingnan
Chen, Zhe
Yin, Jiajun
Wang, Yuan
Liao, Xinhao
Ye, Zhiling
Li, Ji
Yue, Yun
Xiao, Hansong
Zhou, Hualei
Guo, Chunxiao
Wei, Peng
Liu, Junwei
Gu, Jinjie
Computation and Language
Recent developments in Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents have shown impressive capabilities spanning multiple domains, exemplified by deep research systems that demonstrate superior performance on complex information-seeking and synthesis tasks. While general-purpose deep research agents have shown impressive capabilities, they struggle significantly with medical domain challenges, as evidenced by leading proprietary systems achieving limited accuracy on complex medical benchmarks. The key limitations are: (1) the model lacks sufficient dense medical knowledge for clinical reasoning, and (2) the framework is constrained by the absence of specialized retrieval tools tailored for medical contexts. We present a medical deep research agent that addresses these challenges through two core innovations. First, we develop a novel data synthesis framework using medical knowledge graphs, extracting the longest chains from subgraphs around rare medical entities to generate complex multi-hop question-answer pairs. Second, we integrate a custom-built private medical retrieval engine alongside general-purpose tools, enabling accurate medical information synthesis. Our approach generates 2100+ diverse trajectories across 12 medical specialties, each averaging 4.2 tool interactions. Through a two-stage training paradigm combining supervised fine-tuning and online reinforcement learning with composite rewards, our MedResearcher-R1-32B model demonstrates exceptional performance, establishing new state-of-the-art results on medical benchmarks while maintaining competitive performance on general deep research tasks. Our work demonstrates that strategic domain-specific innovations in architecture, tool design, and training data construction can enable smaller open-source models to outperform much larger proprietary systems in specialized domains.
title MedResearcher-R1: Expert-Level Medical Deep Researcher via A Knowledge-Informed Trajectory Synthesis Framework
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14880