MedBrowseComp: Benchmarking Medical Deep Research and Computer Use

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.14963v1
• Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 22:42:33 GMT
• Title: MedBrowseComp: Benchmarking Medical Deep Research and Computer Use
• Authors: Shan Chen, Pedro Moreira, Yuxin Xiao, Sam Schmidgall, Jeremy Warner, Hugo Aerts, Thomas Hartvigsen, Jack Gallifant, Danielle S. Bitterman,
• Abstract summary: MedBrowseComp is a benchmark that systematically tests an agent's ability to retrieve and synthesize medical facts.<n>It contains more than 1,000 human-curated questions that mirror clinical scenarios.<n>Applying MedBrowseComp to frontier agentic systems reveals performance shortfalls as low as ten percent.
• Score: 10.565661515629412
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly envisioned as decision-support tools in clinical practice, yet safe clinical reasoning demands integrating heterogeneous knowledge bases -- trials, primary studies, regulatory documents, and cost data -- under strict accuracy constraints. Existing evaluations often rely on synthetic prompts, reduce the task to single-hop factoid queries, or conflate reasoning with open-ended generation, leaving their real-world utility unclear. To close this gap, we present MedBrowseComp, the first benchmark that systematically tests an agent's ability to reliably retrieve and synthesize multi-hop medical facts from live, domain-specific knowledge bases. MedBrowseComp contains more than 1,000 human-curated questions that mirror clinical scenarios where practitioners must reconcile fragmented or conflicting information to reach an up-to-date conclusion. Applying MedBrowseComp to frontier agentic systems reveals performance shortfalls as low as ten percent, exposing a critical gap between current LLM capabilities and the rigor demanded in clinical settings. MedBrowseComp therefore offers a clear testbed for reliable medical information seeking and sets concrete goals for future model and toolchain upgrades. You can visit our project page at: https://moreirap12.github.io/mbc-browse-app/

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