Paper · arXiv 2408.06142
Med42-v2: A Suite of Clinical LLMs
Clément Christophe, Praveen K Kanithi, Tathagata Raha, Shadab Khan, Marco AF Pimentel
Med42-v2 enhances Llama3 with clinical data to improve performance in healthcare settings, outperforming generic models across medical benchmarks.
Abstract
Med42-v2 introduces a suite of clinical large language models (LLMs) designed to address the limitations of generic models in healthcare settings. These models are built on Llama3 architecture and fine-tuned using specialized clinical data. They underwent multi-stage preference alignment to effectively respond to natural prompts. While generic models are often preference-aligned to avoid answering clinical queries as a precaution, Med42-v2 is specifically trained to overcome this limitation, enabling its use in clinical settings. Med42-v2 models demonstrate superior performance compared to the original Llama3 models in both 8B and 70B parameter configurations and GPT-4 across various medical benchmarks. These LLMs are developed to understand clinical queries, perform reasoning tasks, and provide valuable assistance in clinical environments. The models are now publicly available at https://huggingface.co/m42-health{https://huggingface.co/m42-health}.