MedCoach: Enhancing Medical Reasoning in LLMs via Knowledge Graph-Augmented Chain-of-Thought Distillation (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for training specialized reasoning models for the medical domain are limited due to the scarcity of high-quality, large-scale Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that introduces a dedicated coach role to guide the student model through question decomposition. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework smooths the learning curve in medical reasoning by facilitating domain adaptation before advancing to complex long-chain reasoning. |
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