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New PersianMedQA benchmark tests LLMs on bilingual medical reasoning

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Researchers have introduced PersianMedQA, a new benchmark dataset designed to evaluate the medical question-answering capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in both Persian and English. The dataset comprises over 20,000 expert-validated multiple-choice questions from Iranian medical exams, covering 23 specialties. Benchmarking 41 models, the study found that closed-weight general models like GPT-4.1 performed best, while specialized Persian LLMs struggled. The research also highlighted that some medical nuances are lost in translation, making Persian-specific answers crucial. AI

IMPACT This benchmark will drive improvements in LLM performance for low-resource languages and specialized domains like medicine.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Mohammad Javad Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Amirhossein Sheikholselami, Sepehr Karimi, Sepideh Ranjbar Kalahroodi, Heshaam Faili, Azadeh Shakery ·

    PersianMedQA: Evaluating Large Language Models on a Persian-English Bilingual Medical Question Answering Benchmark

    arXiv:2506.00250v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable performance on a wide range of Natural Language Processing (NLP) benchmarks, often surpassing human-level accuracy. However, their reliability in high-stakes domains such as …

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