Option-Aware Retrieval and Task-Specific VLM Adaptation for Medical VQA

arXiv:2609.15530 · cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV · Submitted 2026-09-14 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.CV

Submitted: 2026-09-14

Updated: 2026-09-14

Journal ref: MedReason @MICCAI 2026 - Benchmarking Medical MLLM Reasoning under Domain Shift, Sep 2026, Strasbourg, France

Code: https://github.com/Kirscher/MedReason2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

Accuracy — 32× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Adaptation — 15× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Grounding — 5× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Ablation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Visual Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) — 2× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
Cooperation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
LoRA Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
LoRA Adapters — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
Multimodal Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes

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