An Automatic Evaluation Framework for Multi-turn Medical Consultations Capabilities of Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.02077v1
• Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 09:24:48 GMT
• Title: An Automatic Evaluation Framework for Multi-turn Medical Consultations Capabilities of Large Language Models
• Authors: Yusheng Liao, Yutong Meng, Hongcheng Liu, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Wang
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations, leading to overly confident but incorrect judgments. This paper introduces an automated evaluation framework that assesses the practical capabilities of LLMs as virtual doctors during multi-turn consultations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved significant success in interacting with human. However, recent studies have revealed that these models often suffer from hallucinations, leading to overly confident but incorrect judgments. This limits their application in the medical domain, where tasks require the utmost accuracy. This paper introduces an automated evaluation framework that assesses the practical capabilities of LLMs as virtual doctors during multi-turn consultations. Consultation tasks are designed to require LLMs to be aware of what they do not know, to inquire about missing medical information from patients, and to ultimately make diagnoses. To evaluate the performance of LLMs for these tasks, a benchmark is proposed by reformulating medical multiple-choice questions from the United States Medical Licensing Examinations (USMLE), and comprehensive evaluation metrics are developed and evaluated on three constructed test sets. A medical consultation training set is further constructed to improve the consultation ability of LLMs. The results of the experiments show that fine-tuning with the training set can alleviate hallucinations and improve LLMs' performance on the proposed benchmark. Extensive experiments and ablation studies are conducted to validate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed framework.

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