ClinicalReTrial: Clinical Trial Redesign with Self-Evolving Agents
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| author | Xing, Sixue Wu, Kerui Xia, Xuanye Jiang, Meng Chen, Jintai Fu, Tianfan |
| author_facet | Xing, Sixue Wu, Kerui Xia, Xuanye Jiang, Meng Chen, Jintai Fu, Tianfan |
| contents | Clinical trials constitute a critical yet exceptionally challenging and costly stage of drug development (\$2.6B per drug), where protocols are encoded as complex natural language documents, motivating the use of AI systems beyond manual analysis. Existing AI methods accurately predict trial failure, but do not provide actionable remedies. To fill this gap, this paper proposes ClinicalReTrial, a multi-agent system that formulates clinical trial optimization as an iterative redesign problem on textural protocols. Our method integrates failure diagnosis, safety-aware modifications, and candidate evaluation in a closed-loop, reward-driven optimization framework. Serving the outcome prediction model as a simulation environment, ClinicalReTrial enables low-cost evaluation and dense reward signals for continuous self-improvement. We further propose a hierarchical memory that captures iteration-level feedback within trials and distills transferable redesign patterns across trials. Empirically, ClinicalReTrial improves $83.3\%$ of trial protocols with a mean success probability gain of $5.7\%$ with negligible cost (\$0.12 per trial). Retrospective case studies demonstrate alignment between the discovered redesign strategies and real-world clinical trial modifications. The code is anonymously available at: https://github.com/xingsixue123/ClinicalFailureReasonReTrial. |
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| spellingShingle | ClinicalReTrial: Clinical Trial Redesign with Self-Evolving Agents Xing, Sixue Wu, Kerui Xia, Xuanye Jiang, Meng Chen, Jintai Fu, Tianfan Artificial Intelligence Multiagent Systems Clinical trials constitute a critical yet exceptionally challenging and costly stage of drug development (\$2.6B per drug), where protocols are encoded as complex natural language documents, motivating the use of AI systems beyond manual analysis. Existing AI methods accurately predict trial failure, but do not provide actionable remedies. To fill this gap, this paper proposes ClinicalReTrial, a multi-agent system that formulates clinical trial optimization as an iterative redesign problem on textural protocols. Our method integrates failure diagnosis, safety-aware modifications, and candidate evaluation in a closed-loop, reward-driven optimization framework. Serving the outcome prediction model as a simulation environment, ClinicalReTrial enables low-cost evaluation and dense reward signals for continuous self-improvement. We further propose a hierarchical memory that captures iteration-level feedback within trials and distills transferable redesign patterns across trials. Empirically, ClinicalReTrial improves $83.3\%$ of trial protocols with a mean success probability gain of $5.7\%$ with negligible cost (\$0.12 per trial). Retrospective case studies demonstrate alignment between the discovered redesign strategies and real-world clinical trial modifications. The code is anonymously available at: https://github.com/xingsixue123/ClinicalFailureReasonReTrial. |
| title | ClinicalReTrial: Clinical Trial Redesign with Self-Evolving Agents |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Multiagent Systems |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00290 |