Summary of Unveiling Performance Challenges Of Large Language Models in Low-resource Healthcare: a Demographic Fairness Perspective, by Yue Zhou et al.
Unveiling Performance Challenges of Large Language Models in Low-Resource Healthcare: A Demographic Fairness Perspective
by Yue Zhou, Barbara Di Eugenio, Lu Cheng
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Nov 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 This study examines the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in real-world healthcare tasks, specifically evaluating their demographic fairness. The researchers tested state-of-the-art LLMs with three learning frameworks across six diverse healthcare tasks, revealing significant challenges and persistent fairness issues across demographic groups. They also found mixed results when providing explicit demographic information to LLMs, while the models’ ability to infer demographic details raises concerns about biased health predictions. Furthermore, utilizing LLMs as autonomous agents with access to up-date guidelines did not guarantee performance improvement. The findings highlight the critical limitations of LLMs in healthcare fairness and emphasize the need for specialized research in this area. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study looks at how well big language models can do real-world tasks related to healthcare, like diagnosing patients or suggesting treatments. The researchers tested these models on six different healthcare tasks and found that they have some major limitations when it comes to being fair to people of different backgrounds. They also found that even when given more information about a patient’s demographics, the models didn’t always make better predictions. This study shows that we need to do more research to make sure language models are used fairly in healthcare. |
