HiMed: Incentivizing Hindi Reasoning in Medical LLMs

arXiv:2605.24635 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-05-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-05-23

Updated: 2026-09-26

Code: https://github.com/FreedomIntelligence/HiMed

Project page: https://pcimh.gov.in

Terminology

• Benchmark — 68× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 37× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Scaffolding — 19× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 15× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 13× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 10× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 9× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Core — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Cross-lingual Transfer — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 3× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Distillation — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 3× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics — 3× in this paper
• Annotator Agreement — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Low-Resource Languages — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• National Institute of Sowa-Rigpa — 2× in this paper
• Self-consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation Studies — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences — 1× in this paper
• Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy — 1× in this paper
• Central Council for Research in Siddha — 1× in this paper
• Chennai National Institute of Siddha — 1× in this paper
• Cosine Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Knowledge Graph — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Knowledge graphs — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Kolkata National Institute of Homoeopathy — 1× in this paper
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Process Reward Models (PRMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Prompt Engineering — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Selection Bias — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• HealthBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Towards Improved Human Health
• Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
• Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback
• Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Across Languages
• AI-Driven Healthcare: A Review on Ensuring Fairness and Mitigating Bias
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• No Language Left Behind: Scaling Human-Centered Machine Translation
• Efficient and Effective Text Encoding for Chinese LLaMA and Alpaca
• BhashaBench V1: A Comprehensive Benchmark for the Quadrant of Indic Domains
• Airavata: Introducing Hindi Instruction-tuned LLM
• GPT-4o System Card
• What Disease does this Patient Have? A Large-scale Open Domain Question Answering Dataset from Medical Exams
• AI4Bharat-IndicNLP Corpus: Monolingual Corpora and Word Embeddings for Indic Languages
• The opportunities and risks of large language models in mental health
• Let's reward step by step: Step-Level reward model as the Navigators for Reasoning
• Suvach -- Generated Hindi QA benchmark
• XToM: Exploring the Multilingual Theory of Mind for Large Language Models
• Humanity's Last Exam
• Towards Building Multilingual Language Model for Medicine
• Distributionally Robust Optimization: A Review

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