Adaptive Reasoning and Acting in Medical Language Agents
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Abstract (arXiv)
This paper presents an innovative large language model (LLM) agent framework for enhancing diagnostic accuracy in simulated clinical environments using the AgentClinic benchmark. The proposed automatic correction enables doctor agents to iteratively refine their reasoning and actions following incorrect diagnoses, fostering improved decision-making over time. Experiments show that the implementation of the adaptive LLM-based doctor agents achieve correct diagnoses through dynamic interactions with simulated patients. The evaluations highlight the capacity of autonomous agents to adapt and improve in complex medical scenarios. Future enhancements will focus on refining the algorithm and expanding its applicability across a wider range of tasks and different large language models.
Key facts. Cited by 9 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Clinical and biomedical applications, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 5 of its 8 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 13 Oct 2024.
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- 2024AgentClinic: a multimodal agent benchmark to evaluate AI in simulated clinical environmentscited by 215
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 7; 2026: 2.
9 papers.
- 2025A Survey of LLM-based Agents in Medicine: How far are we from Baymax?cited by 84
- 2026A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agentscited by 47
- 2025ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoningcited by 26
- 2025AUTOCT: Automating Interpretable Clinical Trial Prediction with LLM Agentscited by 9
- 2025MedSentry: Understanding and Mitigating Safety Risks in Medical LLM Multi-Agent Systemscited by 8
- 2025Generative AI for Healthcare: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Perspectivescited by 3
- 2025Knowledge-Augmented Long-CoT Generation for Complex Biomolecular Reasoningcited by 2
- 2025Surgical AI Copilot: Energy-Based Fourier Gradient Low-Rank Adaptation for Surgical LLM Agent Reasoning and Planningcited by 1
- 2026Modeling Clinical Concern Trajectories in Language Model Agentscited by 0
- 2026Modeling Clinical Concern Trajectories in Language Model Agents30 Apr 2026
- 2026A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents18 Jan 2026
- 2025Knowledge-Augmented Long-CoT Generation for Complex Biomolecular Reasoning11 Nov 2025
- 2025Generative AI for Healthcare: Fundamentals, Challenges, and Perspectives28 Oct 2025
- 2025ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning11 Jun 2025
- 2025AUTOCT: Automating Interpretable Clinical Trial Prediction with LLM Agents4 Jun 2025
- 2025MedSentry: Understanding and Mitigating Safety Risks in Medical LLM Multi-Agent Systems27 May 2025
- 2025Surgical AI Copilot: Energy-Based Fourier Gradient Low-Rank Adaptation for Surgical LLM Agent Reasoning and Planning12 Mar 2025
- 2025A Survey of LLM-based Agents in Medicine: How far are we from Baymax?16 Feb 2025
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