Summary of Medadapter: Efficient Test-time Adaptation Of Large Language Models Towards Medical Reasoning, by Wenqi Shi et al.
MedAdapter: Efficient Test-Time Adaptation of Large Language Models towards Medical Reasoning
by Wenqi Shi, Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, Haotian Sun, Hang Wu, Carl Yang, May D. Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This research proposes a novel approach called MedAdapter, which efficiently adapts large language models (LLMs) for biomedical applications without requiring extensive computational resources or data sharing. Unlike traditional fine-tuning methods, MedAdapter only fine-tunes a small adapter model to rank candidate solutions generated by LLMs, achieving average performance improvements of 25.48% and 11.31%, respectively. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of MedAdapter for both white-box and black-box LLMs in biomedical reasoning tasks, making it a flexible and complementary solution to existing adaptation methods. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: Scientists are trying to use super-powerful language models to help doctors and researchers make better decisions. But these models are huge and private, so adapting them for medical uses is tricky. The authors of this paper created a new tool called MedAdapter that can adapt the language models without making them share their secrets or using too much computer power. This tool works really well and could be useful for lots of different tasks in medicine. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning
