MedCare: Advancing Medical LLMs through Decoupling Clinical Alignment and Knowledge Aggregation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.17484v3
• Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 06:04:54 GMT
• Title: MedCare: Advancing Medical LLMs through Decoupling Clinical Alignment and Knowledge Aggregation
• Authors: Yusheng Liao, Shuyang Jiang, Zhe Chen, Yanfeng Wang, Yu Wang,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have shown substantial progress in natural language understanding and generation, proving valuable especially in the medical field. Previous approaches either ignore the latter task or focus on a minority of tasks and hence lose generalization. This pipeline employs a Knowledge Aggregator and a Noise aggregator to encode diverse knowledge in the first stage and filter out detrimental information. Various model sizes of MedCare (1.8B, 7B, 14B) all demonstrate significant improvements over existing models with similar model sizes.
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• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown substantial progress in natural language understanding and generation, proving valuable especially in the medical field. Despite advancements, challenges persist due to the complexity and diversity inherent in medical tasks, which can be categorized as knowledge-intensive tasks and alignment-required tasks. Previous approaches either ignore the latter task or focus on a minority of tasks and hence lose generalization. To address these drawbacks, we propose a progressive fine-tuning pipeline. This pipeline employs a Knowledge Aggregator and a Noise aggregator to encode diverse knowledge in the first stage and filter out detrimental information. In the second stage, we drop the Noise Aggregator to avoid the interference of suboptimal representation and leverage an additional alignment module optimized towards an orthogonal direction to the knowledge space to mitigate knowledge forgetting. Based on this two-stage paradigm, we proposed a Medical LLM through decoupling Clinical Alignment and Knowledge Aggregation (MedCare), which is designed to achieve state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on over 20 medical tasks, as well as SOTA results on specific medical alignment tasks. Various model sizes of MedCare (1.8B, 7B, 14B) all demonstrate significant improvements over existing models with similar model sizes.

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