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ArticleAMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science2024

Local Large Language Models for Complex Structured Tasks.

V K Cody Bumgardner, Aaron Mullen, Samuel E Armstrong, Caylin Hickey, Victor Marek, Jeff Talbert

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Article in AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science proceedings. AMIA Joint Summits on Translational Science, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors.

V K Cody BumgardnerUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Aaron MullenUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Samuel E ArmstrongUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Caylin HickeyUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Victor MarekUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Jeff TalbertUniversity of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

Funding

Kentucky Center for Clinical and Translational ScienceUL1TR001998 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI HARTMANN, KATHERINE E, KERN, PHILIP A · 2016 to 2025
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NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR001998
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper introduces an approach that combines the language reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) with the benefits of local training to tackle complex language tasks. The authors demonstrate their approach by extracting structured condition codes from pathology reports. The proposed approach utilizes local, fine-tuned LLMs to respond to specific generative instructions and provide structured outputs. Over 150k uncurated surgical pathology reports containing gross descriptions, final diagnoses, and condition codes were used. Different model architectures were trained and evaluated, including LLaMA, BERT, and LongFormer. The results show that the LLaMA-based models significantly outperform BERT-style models across all evaluated metrics. LLaMA models performed especially well with large datasets, demonstrating their ability to handle complex, multi-label tasks. Overall, this work presents an effective approach for utilizing LLMs to perform structured generative tasks on domain-specific language in the medical domain.

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PMID38827047
PMCPMC11141822

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