What Do LLMs Know About Alzheimer's Disease? Fine-Tuning, Probing, and Data Synthesis for AD Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.11177v1
• Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:12:31 GMT
• Title: What Do LLMs Know About Alzheimer's Disease? Fine-Tuning, Probing, and Data Synthesis for AD Detection
• Authors: Lei Jiang, Yue Zhou, Natalie Parde,
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong transfer capabilities across domains.<n>We investigate how task-relevant information is encoded within its internal representations.<n>We train a sequence-to-sequence model to generate structurally consistent and diagnostically informative synthetic samples.
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• Abstract: Reliable early detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is challenging, particularly due to limited availability of labeled data. While large language models (LLMs) have shown strong transfer capabilities across domains, adapting them to the AD domain through supervised fine-tuning remains largely unexplored. In this work, we fine-tune an LLM for AD detection and investigate how task-relevant information is encoded within its internal representations. We employ probing techniques to analyze intermediate activations across transformer layers, and we observe that, after fine-tuning, the probing values of specific words and special markers change substantially, indicating that these elements assume a crucial role in the model's improved detection performance. Guided by this insight, we design a curated set of task-aware special markers and train a sequence-to-sequence model as a data-synthesis tool that leverages these markers to generate structurally consistent and diagnostically informative synthetic samples. We evaluate the synthesized data both intrinsically and by incorporating it into downstream training pipelines.

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