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20242026
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16 papers

cs.CL2026

What Do Biomedical NER and Entity Linking Benchmarks Measure? A Corpus-Centric Diagnostic Framework

Robert Leaman, Rezarta Islamaj, Zhiyong Lu

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) and entity linking (EL) strongly depend on annotated corpora, but the utility of these resources for benchmarking is often assumed rather…

cs.CV2026

Rethinking Visual Attribution for Chest X-ray Reasoning in Large Vision Language Models

Guangzhi Xiong, Qiao Jin, Sanchit Sinha +2

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) show promise in medical applications, but their inability to faithfully ground responses in visual evidence raises serious concerns about clini…

cs.AI2026

Entry-level guide to the use of large language models for medical research

Qiao Jin, Nicholas Wan, Robert Leaman +20

Frontier large language models (LLMs), such as GPT-5, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3, Llama 4, and DeepSeek-R1, represent a transformative class of AI tools capable of revolutionizing variou…

cs.CL2026

Supervising the search process produces reliable and generalizable information-seeking agents

Guangzhi Xiong, Qiao Jin, Xiao Wang +9

Large language models (LLMs) are transforming web search by shifting from document ranking to synthesizing answers, and are increasingly deployed as autonomous agentic search syste…

cs.LG2026

Large Language Models Lack Temporal Awareness of Medical Knowledge

Zihan Guan, Qiao Jin, Guangzhi Xiong +6

The existing methods for evaluating the medical knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) are largely based on atemporal examination-style benchmarks, while in reality, medical kno…

cs.CL2026

MedHopQA: A Disease-Centered Multi-Hop Reasoning Benchmark and Evaluation Framework for LLM-Based Biomedical Question Answering

Rezarta Islamaj, Robert Leaman, Joey Chan +13

Evaluating large language models (LLMs) in the biomedical domain requires benchmarks that can distinguish reasoning from pattern matching and remain discriminative as model capabil…