In the face of rapidly expanding online medical literature, automated systems for aggregating and summarizing information are becoming increasingly crucial for healthcare professionals and patients. Large Language Models (LLMs), with their advanced generative capabilities, have shown promise in various NLP tasks, and their potential in the healthcare domain, particularly for Closed-Book Generative QnA, is significant. However, the performance of these models in domain-specific tasks such as medical Q&A remains largely unexplored. This study aims to fill this gap by comparing the performance of general and medical-specific distilled LMs for medical Q&A. We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of fine-tuning domain-specific LMs and compare the performance of different families of Language Models. The study will address critical questions about these models' reliability, comparative performance, and effectiveness in the context of medical Q&A. The findings will provide valuable insights into the suitability of different LMs for specific applications in the medical domain.

本研究通过比较一般性和专用于医学问答的精简语言模型的性能，旨在填补这方面的空白，并评估不同语言模型家族的性能，以探讨这些模型在医学问答领域的可靠性、比较性能和有效性，从而为不同语言模型在医学领域的特定应用提供有价值的见解。

MedLM：探索面向医学问答系统的语言模型