SIC-Agents: Benchmarking and Building an Adaptive Simulator for Pediatric Serious Illness Communication Training

arXiv:2608.29481 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-08-30 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-08-30

Updated: 2026-08-30

Code: https://github.com/Beikewzh/sic-benchmarks

Terminology

• Benchmark — 43× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 37× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 11× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Core — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fidelity — 8× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 7× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Embeddings — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Provenance — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Evaluation Dimensions — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Iterative Refinement — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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