Recursive LLM Degradation in Biomedical Question Answering: A Cross-Generation Study

arXiv:2609.34257 · cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-28 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-28

Updated: 2026-09-28

Terminology

• Cosine Similarity — 14× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Semantic Similarity — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Perplexity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Adaptation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generative Models — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hallucination — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• Qwen2.5 Technical Report
• PMC-LLaMA: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Medicine
• MEDITRON-70B: Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language Models
• Domain-Specific Language Model Pretraining for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

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