ClinAlign: Scaling Healthcare Alignment from Clinician Preference (2026.findings-acl)
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Shiwei Lyu, Xidong Wang, Hao Zhu, Lei Liu, Chaohe Zhang, Jian Wang, Jinjie Gu, Benyou Wang, Yue Shen
| Challenge: | Existing methods for aligning open-ended outputs with fine-grained clinician preferences are weakly grounded in professional guidelines. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework to align large language models' outputs with fine-grained clinician preferences . they propose 119 broadly reusable, clinically grounded principles organized by clinical dimensions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing models on HealthBench-Hard and Deepseek-R1 and o3. |
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