Lightweight Clinical Decision Support System using QLoRA-Fine-Tuned LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.03406v1
• Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 10:31:54 GMT
• Title: Lightweight Clinical Decision Support System using QLoRA-Fine-Tuned LLMs and Retrieval-Augmented Generation
• Authors: Mohammad Shoaib Ansari, Mohd Sohail Ali Khan, Shubham Revankar, Aditya Varma, Anil S. Mokhade,
• Abstract summary: This research paper investigates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare.<n>We focus on enhancing medical decision support through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrated with hospital-specific data and fine-tuning using Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA)<n>We touch on the ethical considerations-patient privacy, data security, and the need for rigorous clinical validation-as well as the practical challenges of integrating such systems into real-world healthcare.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: This research paper investigates the application of Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare, specifically focusing on enhancing medical decision support through Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrated with hospital-specific data and fine-tuning using Quantized Low-Rank Adaptation (QLoRA). The system utilizes Llama 3.2-3B-Instruct as its foundation model. By embedding and retrieving context-relevant healthcare information, the system significantly improves response accuracy. QLoRA facilitates notable parameter efficiency and memory optimization, preserving the integrity of medical information through specialized quantization techniques. Our research also shows that our model performs relatively well on various medical benchmarks, indicating that it can be used to make basic medical suggestions. This paper details the system's technical components, including its architecture, quantization methods, and key healthcare applications such as enhanced disease prediction from patient symptoms and medical history, treatment suggestions, and efficient summarization of complex medical reports. We touch on the ethical considerations-patient privacy, data security, and the need for rigorous clinical validation-as well as the practical challenges of integrating such systems into real-world healthcare workflows. Furthermore, the lightweight quantized weights ensure scalability and ease of deployment even in low-resource hospital environments. Finally, the paper concludes with an analysis of the broader impact of LLMs on healthcare and outlines future directions for LLMs in medical settings.

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