CliMedBench: A Large-Scale Chinese Benchmark for Evaluating Medical Large Language Models in Clinical Scenarios (2024.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Chinese medical large language models (LLMs) are underperforming on this benchmark, especially where medical reasoning and factual consistency are vital. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmark with 14 expert-guided clinical scenarios to assess the medical ability of large language models across 7 pivot dimensions. |
| Outcome: | The proposed benchmark has been validated in several ways. |
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