Summary of Medbench: a Comprehensive, Standardized, and Reliable Benchmarking System For Evaluating Chinese Medical Large Language Models, by Mianxin Liu et al.
MedBench: A Comprehensive, Standardized, and Reliable Benchmarking System for Evaluating Chinese Medical Large Language Models
by Mianxin Liu, Jinru Ding, Jie Xu, Weiguo Hu, Xiaoyang Li, Lifeng Zhu, Zhian Bai, Xiaoming Shi, Benyou Wang, Haitao Song, Pengfei Liu, Xiaofan Zhang, Shanshan Wang, Kang Li, Haofen Wang, Tong Ruan, Xuanjing Huang, Xin Sun, Shaoting Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 24 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper proposes a standardized benchmarking system, called MedBench, for evaluating medical large language models (LLMs) in the Chinese context. The authors argue that establishing an accessible evaluation process is crucial to ensure the efficacy of these models before real-world deployment. MedBench consists of a comprehensive dataset covering 43 clinical specialties and performs multi-facet evaluation on LLMs. The system also provides a standardized, cloud-based infrastructure for automated evaluation and implements dynamic mechanisms to prevent shortcut learning. The authors demonstrate the effectiveness of MedBench by applying it to popular general and medical LLMs, observing unbiased and reproducible evaluation results that align with medical professionals’ perspectives. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a special system called MedBench to help us evaluate how well medical AI models are doing. These models need to be tested before they’re used in real hospitals or clinics. The problem is that there wasn’t a good way to do this, especially for Chinese medical models. The researchers made a big dataset with questions covering many different medical specialties and tested the models on it. They also created a special computer system that can automatically test the models and make sure they’re not just memorizing answers. This helps us trust the results more. The authors show that their system works by testing popular AI models, and the results match what doctors think is correct. |
