Can LLMs Reason Over Long Horizons? An Empirical Evaluation of Context Strategies for Longitudinal Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2610.00562 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-30

Updated: 2026-09-30

Terminology

• Accuracy — 43× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Abstention — 12× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cosine Similarity — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Core — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Grounding — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Temporal Reasoning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Similarity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• MedLoCoMo: A Long-Context Multi-Session Medical Dialogue Benchmark for Large Language Models
• LongMedBench: Benchmarking Medical Agents for Long-Horizon Clinical Decision-Making
• MemGPT: Towards LLMs as Operating Systems
• AdMem: Advanced Memory for Task-solving Agents
• Evaluating Long-Term Memory for Long-Context Question Answering
• MemTrace: Tracing and Attributing Errors in Large Language Model Memory Systems
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Gemma 4 Technical Report
• MedGemma Technical Report
• Mistral 7B
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• ChatGLM: A Family of Large Language Models from GLM-130B to GLM-4 All Tools

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