SparseDoctor: Towards Efficient Chat Doctor with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Large Language Models

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Hauptverfasser: Zhang, Jianbin, Zhu, Yulin, Lo, Wai Lun, Hsung, Richard Tai-Chiu, Tsang, Harris Sik-Ho, Zhou, Kai
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author Zhang, Jianbin
Zhu, Yulin
Lo, Wai Lun
Hsung, Richard Tai-Chiu
Tsang, Harris Sik-Ho
Zhou, Kai
author_facet Zhang, Jianbin
Zhu, Yulin
Lo, Wai Lun
Hsung, Richard Tai-Chiu
Tsang, Harris Sik-Ho
Zhou, Kai
contents Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in medical question answering and clinical decision-making, promoting the efficiency and popularization of the personalized virtual doctor in society. However, the traditional fine-tuning strategies on LLM require the updates of billions of parameters, substantially increasing the training cost, including the training time and utility cost. To enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the current medical LLMs and explore the boundary of the representation capability of the LLMs on the medical domain, apart from the traditional fine-tuning strategies from the data perspective (i.e., supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning from human feedback), we instead craft a novel sparse medical LLM named SparseDoctor armed with contrastive learning enhanced LoRA-MoE (low rank adaptation-mixture of experts) architecture. To this end, the crafted automatic routing mechanism can scientifically allocate the computational resources among different LoRA experts supervised by the contrastive learning. Additionally, we also introduce a novel expert memory queue mechanism to further boost the efficiency of the overall framework and prevent the memory overflow during training. We conduct comprehensive evaluations on three typical medical benchmarks: CMB, CMExam, and CMMLU-Med. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed LLM can consistently outperform the strong baselines such as the HuatuoGPT series.
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spellingShingle SparseDoctor: Towards Efficient Chat Doctor with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Large Language Models
Zhang, Jianbin
Zhu, Yulin
Lo, Wai Lun
Hsung, Richard Tai-Chiu
Tsang, Harris Sik-Ho
Zhou, Kai
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Large language models (LLMs) have achieved great success in medical question answering and clinical decision-making, promoting the efficiency and popularization of the personalized virtual doctor in society. However, the traditional fine-tuning strategies on LLM require the updates of billions of parameters, substantially increasing the training cost, including the training time and utility cost. To enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the current medical LLMs and explore the boundary of the representation capability of the LLMs on the medical domain, apart from the traditional fine-tuning strategies from the data perspective (i.e., supervised fine-tuning or reinforcement learning from human feedback), we instead craft a novel sparse medical LLM named SparseDoctor armed with contrastive learning enhanced LoRA-MoE (low rank adaptation-mixture of experts) architecture. To this end, the crafted automatic routing mechanism can scientifically allocate the computational resources among different LoRA experts supervised by the contrastive learning. Additionally, we also introduce a novel expert memory queue mechanism to further boost the efficiency of the overall framework and prevent the memory overflow during training. We conduct comprehensive evaluations on three typical medical benchmarks: CMB, CMExam, and CMMLU-Med. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed LLM can consistently outperform the strong baselines such as the HuatuoGPT series.
title SparseDoctor: Towards Efficient Chat Doctor with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14269