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most citedJMLR: Joint Medical LLM and Retrieval Training for Enhancing Reasoning and Professional Question Answering Capability

11 citations · 35 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

StainFlow: Entity-Stain Tracking and Evidence Linking for Process Rewards in GUI Agents

Haojie Hao, Longkun Hao, Yihang Lou +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a promising approach for improving GUI Agents in long-horizon, stochastic digital environments, but trajectory-level success feedback is too…

cs.CL2026

When Calibration Rankings Reverse: Accuracy-Controlled Evaluation for Fair Comparison of LLMs

Zhichao Yang, Caiqi Zhang, Ruihan Yang +3

Calibration evaluates whether a model confidence aligns with its empirical accuracy. Existing studies often compare the calibration of different large language models using global…

cs.CV2026

Medical thinking with multiple images

Zonghai Yao, Benlu Wang, Yifan Zhang +8

Large language models perform well on many medical QA benchmarks, but real clinical reasoning often requires integrating evidence across multiple images rather than interpreting a…

cs.IR2026

TARSE: Test-Time Adaptation via Retrieval of Skills and Experience for Reasoning Agents

Junda Wang, Zonghai Tao, Hansi Zeng +3

Complex clinical decision making often fails not because a model lacks facts, but because it cannot reliably select and apply the right procedural knowledge and the right prior exa…

cs.AI2025

PRIME: Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Reasoning

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Nguyen Luong Tran +5

Inspired by the dual-process theory of human cognition from \textit{Thinking, Fast and Slow}, we introduce \textbf{PRIME} (Planning and Retrieval-Integrated Memory for Enhanced Rea…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

ChatThero: An LLM-Supported Chatbot for Behavior Change and Therapeutic Support in Addiction Recovery

Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Lingxi Li +3

Substance use disorders (SUDs) affect millions of people, and relapses are common, requiring multi-session treatments. Access to care is limited, which contributes to the challenge…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing LLMs for Identifying and Prioritizing Important Medical Jargons from Electronic Health Record Notes Utilizing Data Augmentation: A Comparative Study

Won Seok Jang, Sharmin Sultana, Zonghai Yao +4

OpenNotes gives patients access to their EHR notes, but dense medical jargon limits comprehension. We evaluate closed-source and open-source LLMs for extracting and prioritizing th…

cs.CL2024

RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Junda Wang +3

This work introduces RARE (Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement), a versatile extension to the mutual reasoning framework (rStar), aimed at enhancing reasoning accuracy and fa…

cs.CL2024

RiTeK: A Dataset for Large Language Models Complex Reasoning over Textual Knowledge Graphs in Medicine

Jiatan Huang, Mingchen Li, Zonghai Yao +8

Answering complex real-world questions in the medical domain often requires accurate retrieval from medical Textual Knowledge Graphs (medical TKGs), as the relational path informat…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

MCQG-SRefine: Multiple Choice Question Generation and Evaluation with Iterative Self-Critique, Correction, and Comparison Feedback

Zonghai Yao, Aditya Parashar, Huixue Zhou +4

Automatic question generation (QG) is essential for AI and NLP, particularly in intelligent tutoring, dialogue systems, and fact verification. Generating multiple-choice questions…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

MedQA-CS: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)-Style Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Clinical Skills

Zonghai Yao, Zihao Zhang, Chaolong Tang +8

Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) in healthcare require advanced clinical skills (CS), yet current benchmarks fail to evaluate these comprehensively. We…

cs.AI2024

UMass-BioNLP at MEDIQA-M3G 2024: DermPrompt -- A Systematic Exploration of Prompt Engineering with GPT-4V for Dermatological Diagnosis

Parth Vashisht, Abhilasha Lodha, Mukta Maddipatla +6

This paper presents our team's participation in the MEDIQA-ClinicalNLP2024 shared task B. We present a novel approach to diagnosing clinical dermatology cases by integrating large…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

ClinicalMamba: A Generative Clinical Language Model on Longitudinal Clinical Notes

Zhichao Yang, Avijit Mitra, Sunjae Kwon +1

The advancement of natural language processing (NLP) systems in healthcare hinges on language model ability to interpret the intricate information contained within clinical notes.…

cs.CL2024★ 11 cited

JMLR: Joint Medical LLM and Retrieval Training for Enhancing Reasoning and Professional Question Answering Capability

Junda Wang, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated a remarkable potential in medical knowledge acquisition and question-answering. However, LLMs can potentially hallucinate and yield f…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

README: Bridging Medical Jargon and Lay Understanding for Patient Education through Data-Centric NLP

Zonghai Yao, Nandyala Siddharth Kantu, Guanghao Wei +6

The advancement in healthcare has shifted focus toward patient-centric approaches, particularly in self-care and patient education, facilitated by access to Electronic Health Recor…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Do Physicians Know How to Prompt? The Need for Automatic Prompt Optimization Help in Clinical Note Generation

Zonghai Yao, Ahmed Jaafar, Beining Wang +2

This study examines the effect of prompt engineering on the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) in clinical note generation. We introduce an Automatic Prompt Optimization (…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Large Language Models are In-context Teachers for Knowledge Reasoning

Jiachen Zhao, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang +1

In this work, we study in-context teaching (ICT), where a teacher provides in-context example rationales to teach a student to reason over unseen cases. Human teachers are usually…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

BioInstruct: Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models for Biomedical Natural Language Processing

Hieu Tran, Zhichao Yang, Zonghai Yao +1

To enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) by introducing a domain-specific instruction dataset and examining its…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

NoteChat: A Dataset of Synthetic Doctor-Patient Conversations Conditioned on Clinical Notes

Junda Wang, Zonghai Yao, Zhichao Yang +5

We introduce NoteChat, a novel cooperative multi-agent framework leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate patient-physician dialogues. NoteChat embodies the principle th…