Generalist embedding models are better at short-context clinical semantic search than specialized embedding models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.01943v2
• Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 09:51:09 GMT
• Title: Generalist embedding models are better at short-context clinical semantic search than specialized embedding models
• Authors: Jean-Baptiste Excoffier, Tom Roehr, Alexei Figueroa, Jens-Michalis Papaioannou, Keno Bressem, Matthieu Ortala
• Abstract summary: We construct a dataset based on the ICD-10-CM code descriptions and their easily reproducible rephrasing. We benchmarked existing embedding models, either generalist or specialized in the clinical domain, in a semantic search task. Results showed that generalist models performed better than clinical models, suggesting that existing clinical specialized models are more sensitive to small changes in input that confuse them.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The increasing use of tools and solutions based on Large Language Models (LLMs) for various tasks in the medical domain has become a prominent trend. Their use in this highly critical and sensitive domain has thus raised important questions about their robustness, especially in response to variations in input, and the reliability of the generated outputs. This study addresses these questions by constructing a textual dataset based on the ICD-10-CM code descriptions, widely used in US hospitals and containing many clinical terms, and their easily reproducible rephrasing. We then benchmarked existing embedding models, either generalist or specialized in the clinical domain, in a semantic search task where the goal was to correctly match the rephrased text to the original description. Our results showed that generalist models performed better than clinical models, suggesting that existing clinical specialized models are more sensitive to small changes in input that confuse them. The highlighted problem of specialized models may be due to the fact that they have not been trained on sufficient data, and in particular on datasets that are not diverse enough to have a reliable global language understanding, which is still necessary for accurate handling of medical documents.

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