Augmented non-hallucinating large language models as medical information curators

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Abstract

Reliably processing and interlinking medical information has been recognized as a critical foundation to the digital transformation of medical workflows, and despite the development of medical ontologies, the optimization of these has been a major bottleneck to digital medicine. The advent of large language models has brought great excitement, and maybe a solution to the medicines’ ‘communication problem’ is in sight, but how can the known weaknesses of these models, such as hallucination and non-determinism, be tempered? Retrieval Augmented Generation, particularly through knowledge graphs, is an automated approach that can deliver structured reasoning and a model of truth alongside LLMs, relevant to information structuring and therefore also to decision support.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number100
Journal npj digital medicine
Volume7
Issue number1
Early online date23 Apr 2024
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2024
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-1997-1689/work/169175791