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LLMs struggle with Bangla medical visual questions, new dataset shows

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Researchers have developed BanglaMedVQA, a new dataset designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) on medical visual question answering in the Bangla language. Their benchmarking reveals that even leading models like Gemini and GPT-4.1 mini struggle significantly with diagnostic questions in Bangla, highlighting the challenges of low-resource languages in specialized domains. While some open-source models show promise in general categories, they also fail on clinically complex queries, indicating a need for improved evaluation methods and model capabilities. AI

IMPACT Highlights significant limitations of current LLMs in handling specialized medical queries in low-resource languages, indicating a need for improved multilingual and domain-specific reasoning capabilities.

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LLMs struggle with Bangla medical visual questions, new dataset shows

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Md Farhad Alam Bhuiyan ·

    How Good LLMs Are at Answering Bangla Medical Visual Questions? Dataset and Benchmarking

    Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled general-purpose systems to demonstrate promising capabilities in complex reasoning tasks, including those in the medical domain. Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) ha…

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