| Challenge: | Large language models produce fluent judgments for clinical natural language inference, yet fail when the decision requires the correct inferential schema rather than surface matching. |
| Approach: | They propose a compartmentalised agentic framework that routes each premise–statement pair to a reasoning family and applies a specialised solver with explicit verification and targeted refinement. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves mean accuracy from 23% with direct prompting to 57%, with the largest gains on structurally demanding reasoning types. |
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