Closing the gap between open-source and commercial large language models for medical evidence summarization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.00588v1
• Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 05:03:01 GMT
• Title: Closing the gap between open-source and commercial large language models for medical evidence summarization
• Authors: Gongbo Zhang, Qiao Jin, Yiliang Zhou, Song Wang, Betina R. Idnay, Yiming Luo, Elizabeth Park, Jordan G. Nestor, Matthew E. Spotnitz, Ali Soroush, Thomas Campion, Zhiyong Lu, Chunhua Weng, Yifan Peng,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise in summarizing medical evidence. Most recent studies focus on the application of proprietary LLMs. While open-source LLMs allow better transparency and customization, their performance falls short compared to proprietary ones.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) hold great promise in summarizing medical evidence. Most recent studies focus on the application of proprietary LLMs. Using proprietary LLMs introduces multiple risk factors, including a lack of transparency and vendor dependency. While open-source LLMs allow better transparency and customization, their performance falls short compared to proprietary ones. In this study, we investigated to what extent fine-tuning open-source LLMs can further improve their performance in summarizing medical evidence. Utilizing a benchmark dataset, MedReview, consisting of 8,161 pairs of systematic reviews and summaries, we fine-tuned three broadly-used, open-sourced LLMs, namely PRIMERA, LongT5, and Llama-2. Overall, the fine-tuned LLMs obtained an increase of 9.89 in ROUGE-L (95% confidence interval: 8.94-10.81), 13.21 in METEOR score (95% confidence interval: 12.05-14.37), and 15.82 in CHRF score (95% confidence interval: 13.89-16.44). The performance of fine-tuned LongT5 is close to GPT-3.5 with zero-shot settings. Furthermore, smaller fine-tuned models sometimes even demonstrated superior performance compared to larger zero-shot models. The above trends of improvement were also manifested in both human and GPT4-simulated evaluations. Our results can be applied to guide model selection for tasks demanding particular domain knowledge, such as medical evidence summarization.

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