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9 papers

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

Chatbot To Help Patients Understand Their Health

Won Seok Jang, Hieu Tran, Manav Mistry +7

Patients must possess the knowledge necessary to actively participate in their care. We present NoteAid-Chatbot, a conversational AI that promotes patient understanding via a novel…

cs.CL2025

Exploiting Tree Structure for Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Hong Yu

Reinforcement learning improves LLM reasoning, yet sparse delayed reward over long sequences makes token-level credit assignment the key bottleneck. We study the verifiable-reward…

cs.CL2025

MedReadCtrl: Personalizing medical text generation with readability-controlled instruction learning

Hieu Tran, Zonghai Yao, Won Seok Jang +4

Generative AI has demonstrated strong potential in healthcare, from clinical decision support to patient-facing chatbots that improve outcomes. A critical challenge for deployment…

cs.CL2025

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.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…