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New benchmark ClinEnv tests LLMs as simulated physicians

Researchers have introduced ClinEnv, a novel interactive benchmark designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) in simulated clinical settings. This environment presents LLMs with real inpatient admissions, requiring them to act as attending physicians who must gather information sequentially and make irreversible decisions under uncertainty. Unlike static benchmarks, ClinEnv allows models to actively query specialized agents at each stage, enabling a more realistic assessment of both decision-making and information-gathering processes. Initial evaluations across seven models revealed significant gaps, with the strongest performer achieving only a 0.31 decision F1 score, highlighting a critical need for improvement in clinical reasoning and management. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could accelerate the development of more capable AI agents for complex, sequential decision-making tasks in specialized domains like healthcare.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper describing a new benchmark environment for evaluating LLMs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuxing Lu, Yushuhong Lin, Wenqi Shi, J. Ben Tamo, Xukai Zhao, Jinzhuo Wang, May Dongmei Wang ·

    ClinEnv: An Interactive Multi-Stage Long Horizon EHR Environment for Agents

    arXiv:2606.02568v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical practice is not the selection of an answer from enumerated options: a physician gathers heterogeneous information incrementally and commits to sequential, irreversible decisions under uncertainty. Static benchmarks cannot p…

  2. arXiv cs.MA (Multiagent) TIER_1 English(EN) · May Dongmei Wang ·

    ClinEnv: An Interactive Multi-Stage Long Horizon EHR Environment for Agents

    Clinical practice is not the selection of an answer from enumerated options: a physician gathers heterogeneous information incrementally and commits to sequential, irreversible decisions under uncertainty. Static benchmarks cannot probe and existing interactive medical benchmarks…