What's in a Name? Morphological Shortcuts by LLMs in Pharmacology

arXiv:2606.05616 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-04 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-04

Updated: 2026-09-02

Code: https://github.com/KaijieMo-kj/Morphological-Shortcuts

Terminology

• Generalization — 35× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Accuracy — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Activation Patching — 9× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Steering — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Hallucination — 7× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Distributed Alignment Search — 3× in this paper
• Trace — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• American Medical Association — 1× in this paper
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Consistency — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Generalizability — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Mechanistic interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Tokenization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MedHalu: Hallucinations in Responses to Healthcare Queries by Large Language Models
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• Epistemological Fault Lines Between Human and Artificial Intelligence
• Medical Hallucinations in Foundation Models and Their Impact on Healthcare
• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• Faithfulness vs. Safety: Evaluating LLM Behavior Under Counterfactual Medical Evidence

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