Reasoning with large language models for medical question answering.

Journal: Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
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Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To investigate approaches of reasoning with large language models (LLMs) and to propose a new prompting approach, ensemble reasoning, to improve medical question answering performance with refined reasoning and reduced inconsistency.

Authors

  • Mary M Lucas
    College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
  • Justin Yang
    Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, United States.
  • Jon K Pomeroy
    College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, United States.
  • Christopher C Yang
    Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA.