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New MedRealMM benchmark evaluates LLMs on real-world multimodal medical consultations

Researchers have introduced MedRealMM, a new multimodal benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in real-world online medical consultations. Unlike previous benchmarks that often use synthetic data or omit visual information, MedRealMM utilizes de-identified patient-doctor interactions from a Chinese internet hospital, incorporating both text and medical images. The benchmark employs a framework to identify challenging clinical moments and assesses LLM responses against physician-refined rubrics, revealing that current frontier models still struggle with safety-sensitive error avoidance despite their capabilities. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive improvements in AI safety and reasoning for medical applications, pushing models to better handle real-world clinical complexities.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new academic paper introducing a benchmark dataset for evaluating AI models.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Runhan Shi, Quan Zhou, Yuqian Xu, Shuai Yang, Xin Wu, Zitong Zhou, Hui Liu, Bin Cha, Zheming Wang, Liya Li, Wei Wei, Haoyuan Hu, Jun Xu ·

    MedRealMM: A Real-World Multimodal Benchmark for Chinese Online Medical Consultation

    arXiv:2607.09142v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in online medical consultation, yet existing benchmarks remain poorly aligned with real clinical practice. Many rely on synthetic conversations or patient simulators, omit patie…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jun Xu ·

    MedRealMM: A Real-World Multimodal Benchmark for Chinese Online Medical Consultation

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in online medical consultation, yet existing benchmarks remain poorly aligned with real clinical practice. Many rely on synthetic conversations or patient simulators, omit patient-uploaded medical images, or evaluate open-end…