Evaluation of Language Models in the Medical Context Under Resource-Constrained Settings

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.16611v2
• Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:10:29 GMT
• Title: Evaluation of Language Models in the Medical Context Under Resource-Constrained Settings
• Authors: Andrea Posada, Daniel Rueckert, Felix Meissen, Philip Müller,
• Abstract summary: We have conducted a comprehensive survey of language models in the medical field. We evaluated a subset of these for medical text classification and conditional text generation. The results reveal remarkable performance across the tasks and evaluated, underscoring the potential of certain models to contain medical knowledge.
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• Abstract: Since the Transformer architecture emerged, language model development has grown, driven by their promising potential. Releasing these models into production requires properly understanding their behavior, particularly in sensitive domains like medicine. Despite this need, the medical literature still lacks practical assessment of pre-trained language models, which are especially valuable in settings where only consumer-grade computational resources are available. To address this gap, we have conducted a comprehensive survey of language models in the medical field and evaluated a subset of these for medical text classification and conditional text generation. The subset includes 53 models with 110 million to 13 billion parameters, spanning the Transformer-based model families and knowledge domains. Different approaches are employed for text classification, including zero-shot learning, enabling tuning without the need to train the model. These approaches are helpful in our target settings, where many users of language models find themselves. The results reveal remarkable performance across the tasks and datasets evaluated, underscoring the potential of certain models to contain medical knowledge, even without domain specialization. This study thus advocates for further exploration of model applications in medical contexts, particularly in computational resource-constrained settings, to benefit a wide range of users. The code is available on https://github.com/anpoc/Language-models-in-medicine.

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