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New benchmark ClinTraceBench evaluates LLMs on longitudinal clinical reasoning

A new benchmark, ClinTraceBench, has been developed to evaluate the ability of clinical large language models to reason over longitudinal patient data. The benchmark, derived from MIMIC-IV dialogues, includes nine tasks and a rigorous validation process. Researchers assessed eight different history representation strategies, including retrieval, structured timelines, and agentic memory systems, across four LLM backbones: DeepSeek-V3, GPT-4o mini, Haiku~4.5, and Sonnet~4.6. Key findings indicate that compressed strategies suffer from an "aggregation tax" on multi-visit trends, and agentic memory systems still struggle to recover injected information, suggesting limitations in current methods for preserving longitudinal signals in clinical reasoning. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could drive improvements in LLM capabilities for longitudinal patient data analysis, impacting healthcare AI applications.

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New benchmark ClinTraceBench evaluates LLMs on longitudinal clinical reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Huimin Wang, Zhengyi Zhao, Yutian Zhao ·

    ClinTraceBench: Source-Verifiable Longitudinal Clinical Reasoning over EHR-Derived Dialogues

    arXiv:2609.01111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical LLM assistants must reason over multi-visit patient trajectories, yet whether the compact history representations used to scale them---retrieval, structured timelines, LLM summaries, agentic memory---preserve the longitudin…