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ArticleFindings of ACL. EMNLP. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing2024

DALK: Dynamic Co-Augmentation of LLMs and KG to answer Alzheimer's Disease Questions with Scientific Literature.

Dawei Li, Shu Yang, Zhen Tan, Jae Young Baik, Sukwon Yun, Joseph Lee, Aaron Chacko, Bojian Hou, Duy Duong-Tran, Ying Ding and 3 more

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12 citing papers in PubMed.

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13 authors.

Dawei LiSchool of Computing, and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University.
Shu YangUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Zhen TanSchool of Computing, and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University.
Jae Young BaikUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Sukwon YunDepartment of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joseph LeeUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Aaron ChackoUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Bojian HouUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Duy Duong-TranUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Ying DingSchool of Information, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin.
Huan LiuSchool of Computing, and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University.
Li ShenUniversity of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine.
Tianlong ChenDepartment of Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Funding

Technology Identification and Training CoreP30AG073105 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI DEMIRIS, GEORGE, KARLAWISH, JASON H · 2021 to 2025
$21.2M
Ultrascale Machine Learning to Empower Discovery in Alzheimers Disease BiobanksU01AG068057 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Christos Davatzikos, Heng Huang · 2020 to 2026
$20.7M
Artificial Intelligence Strategies for Alzheimer's Disease ResearchU01AG066833 · NIA · CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · PI MOORE, JASON H., RITCHIE, MARYLYN D · 2022 to 2025
$6.7M
Translational big data analytic approaches to advance drug repurposing for Alzheimer's diseaseR01AG071470 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI KIM, DOKYOON, NING, XIA · 2021 to 2025
$3.8M
NIA NIH HHS P30 AG073105NIA NIH HHS R01 AG071470NIA NIH HHS U01 AG066833NIA NIH HHS U01 AG068057
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have achieved promising performances across various applications. Nonetheless, the ongoing challenge of integrating long-tail knowledge continues to impede the seamless adoption of LLMs in specialized domains. In this work, we introduce DALK, a.k.a. Dynamic Co-Augmentation of LLMs and KG, to address this limitation and demonstrate its ability on studying Alzheimer's Disease (AD), a specialized sub-field in biomedicine and a global health priority. With a synergized framework of LLM and KG mutually enhancing each other, we first leverage LLM to construct an evolving AD-specific knowledge graph (KG) sourced from AD-related scientific literature, and then we utilize a coarse-to-fine sampling method with a novel self-aware knowledge retrieval approach to select appropriate knowledge from the KG to augment LLM inference capabilities. The experimental results, conducted on our constructed AD question answering (ADQA) benchmark, underscore the efficacy of DALK. Additionally, we perform a series of detailed analyses that can offer valuable insights and guidelines for the emerging topic of mutually enhancing KG and LLM.

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