Adaptive Cluster Collaborativeness Boosts LLMs Medical Decision Support Capacity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21159v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 04:21:16 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Cluster Collaborativeness Boosts LLMs Medical Decision Support Capacity
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have proven effective in natural language processing systems.<n>We propose an adaptive cluster collaborativeness methodology involving self-diversity and cross-consistency mechanisms.<n>Our method achieves the accuracy rate up to the publicly official passing score across all disciplines.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The collaborativeness of large language models (LLMs) has proven effective in natural language processing systems, holding considerable promise for healthcare development. However, it lacks explicit component selection rules, necessitating human intervention or clinical-specific validation. Moreover, existing architectures heavily rely on a predefined LLM cluster, where partial LLMs underperform in medical decision support scenarios, invalidating the collaborativeness of LLMs. To this end, we propose an adaptive cluster collaborativeness methodology involving self-diversity and cross-consistency maximization mechanisms to boost LLMs medical decision support capacity. For the self-diversity, we calculate the fuzzy matching value of pairwise outputs within an LLM as its self-diversity value, subsequently prioritizing LLMs with high self-diversity values as cluster components in a training-free manner. For the cross-consistency, we first measure cross-consistency values between the LLM with the highest self-diversity value and others, and then gradually mask out the LLM having the lowest cross-consistency value to eliminate the potential inconsistent output during the collaborative propagation. Extensive experiments on two specialized medical datasets, NEJMQA and MMLU-Pro-health, demonstrate the effectiveness of our method across physician-oriented specialties. For example, on NEJMQA, our method achieves the accuracy rate up to the publicly official passing score across all disciplines, especially achieving ACC of 65.47\% compared to the 56.12\% achieved by GPT-4 on the Obstetrics and Gynecology discipline.

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