Knowledge-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-Shot Psychiatric Data: Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.25186v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:52:41 GMT
• Title: Knowledge-Guided Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Zero-Shot Psychiatric Data: Privacy Preserving Synthetic Data Generation
• Abstract summary: Large language models (LLMs) are steered via Retrieval-Augmented Generation using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5)<n>We conducted experiments using different combinations of knowledge bases to generate privacy-preserving synthetic data.<n> Evaluation was performed on six anxiety-related disorders: specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and panic disorder.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: AI systems in healthcare research have shown potential to increase patient throughput and assist clinicians, yet progress is constrained by limited access to real patient data. To address this issue, we present a zero-shot, knowledge-guided framework for psychiatric tabular data in which large language models (LLMs) are steered via Retrieval-Augmented Generation using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). We conducted experiments using different combinations of knowledge bases to generate privacy-preserving synthetic data. The resulting models were benchmarked against two state-of-the-art deep learning models for synthetic tabular data generation, namely CTGAN and TVAE, both of which rely on real data and therefore entail potential privacy risks. Evaluation was performed on six anxiety-related disorders: specific phobia, social anxiety disorder, agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, separation anxiety disorder, and panic disorder. CTGAN typically achieves the best marginals and multivariate structure, while the knowledge-augmented LLM is competitive on pairwise structure and attains the lowest pairwise error in separation anxiety and social anxiety. An ablation study shows that clinical retrieval reliably improves univariate and pairwise fidelity over a no-retrieval LLM. Privacy analyses indicate that the real data-free LLM yields modest overlaps and a low average linkage risk comparable to CTGAN, whereas TVAE exhibits extensive duplication despite a low k-map score. Overall, grounding an LLM in clinical knowledge enables high-quality, privacy-preserving synthetic psychiatric data when real datasets are unavailable or cannot be shared.

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