CAMEC: Complexity-Aware Multi-Expert Collaboration for Reliable Chinese Medical Question Answering (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large language models are promising for medical question answering in china, but remain unreliable due to hallucinations, weak factual grounding and difficulty handling clinically complex cases. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines hierarchical medical adaptation with complexity-aware expert routing for reliable Chinese medical QA. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms strong general and medical LLM baselines on four Chinese medical benchmarks. |
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