Benchmarking Clinical Decision Pathway Adherence in Large Language Models

arXiv:2608.26592 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-27 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-27

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Consistency — 65× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 30× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 20× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 17× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Clinical Decision Pathway — 9× in this paper
• Fine-Tuning — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmarking — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Commentary — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Longest Non-Decreasing Subsequence — 3× in this paper
• Redundancy — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Dynamic Time Warping — 2× in this paper
• F1 Score — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pairwise Comparisons — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Pathway Consistency Cost — 2× in this paper
• Regularization — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Agentic AI — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment Problem — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Multi-Agent System — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Optimal Transport — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Structured Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs
• Scaling Algorithms for Unbalanced Transport Problems
• PaddleOCR-VL-1.5: Towards a Multi-Task 0.9B VLM for Robust In-the-Wild Document Parsing
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• LLMs Get Lost In Multi-Turn Conversation
• MedGUIDE: Benchmarking Clinical Decision-Making in Large Language Models
• Ovis2.5 Technical Report
• gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
• MedicalAgentsBench for Complex Medical Reasoning: Comparing Internalized Reasoning Models versus Externalized Agent-based Frameworks
• A Decade-Scale Benchmark Evaluating LLMs' Clinical Practice Guidelines Detection and Adherence in Multi-turn Conversations
• Baichuan-M3: Modeling Clinical Inquiry for Reliable Medical Decision-Making
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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