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6 claims from 3 papers

1. Medicine › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education

   Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge

   Singhal, Azizi, Tao et al. · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2022

   The paper introduces the MultiMedQA benchmark and a human evaluation framework, tests PaLM and Flan-PaLM, and presents Med-PaLM, which performs encouragingly but remains inferior to clinicians.

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   1. UncheckedFlan-PaLM, using combined prompting strategies, reports top accuracy on all MultiMedQA multiple-choice sets, including 67.6% on MedQA, over 17% above prior best.“Using a combination of prompting strategies, Flan-PaLM achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on every MultiMedQA multiple-choice dataset (MedQA, MedMCQA, PubMedQA, MMLU clinical topics), including 67.6% accuracy on MedQA (US Medical License Exam questions), surpassing prior state-of-the-art by over 17…”
   2. UncheckedMed-PaLM, a language model tuned for medicine, performs encouragingly on medical questions but is still worse than clinicians, according to the paper.“The resulting model, Med-PaLM, performs encouragingly, but remains inferior to clinicians.”
   3. UncheckedThe paper reports that comprehension, knowledge recall and medical reasoning in language models improve with model size and instruction prompt tuning.“We show that comprehension, recall of knowledge, and medical reasoning improve with model scale and instruction prompt tuning, suggesting the potential utility of LLMs in medicine.”

2. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Evaluation of Medium-Sized Language Models in German and English Language

   Peinl and Wirth · International Journal on Natural Language Computing · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“Results show that combining the best answers from different MLMs yielded an overall correct answer rate of 82.7% which is better than the 60.9% of ChatGPT.”
   2. Unchecked“The best MLM achieved 71.8% and has 33B parameters, which highlights the importance of using appropriate training data for fine-tuning rather than solely relying on the number of parameters.”

3. Computer Science › Topic Modeling

   Evaluation of medium-large Language Models at zero-shot closed book generative question answering

   Peinl and Johannes · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“Results show that combining the best answers from different MLMs yielded an overall correct answer rate of 82.7% which is better than the 60.9% of ChatGPT.”