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ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning
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ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning

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June 14, 202521m 54s

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🤗 Upvotes: 63 | cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.MA

Authors:
Yu Sun, Xingyu Qian, Weiwen Xu, Hao Zhang, Chenghao Xiao, Long Li, Yu Rong, Wenbing Huang, Qifeng Bai, Tingyang Xu

Title:
ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning

Arxiv:
http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09513v1

Abstract:
Though reasoning-based large language models (LLMs) have excelled in mathematics and programming, their capabilities in knowledge-intensive medical question answering remain underexplored. To address this, we introduce ReasonMed, the largest medical reasoning dataset, comprising 370k high-quality examples distilled from 1.7 million initial reasoning paths generated by various LLMs. ReasonMed is constructed through a \textit{multi-agent verification and refinement process}, where we design an \textit{Error Refiner} to enhance the reasoning paths by identifying and correcting error-prone steps flagged by a verifier. Leveraging ReasonMed, we systematically investigate best practices for training medical reasoning models and find that combining detailed Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning with concise answer summaries yields the most effective fine-tuning strategy. Based on this strategy, we train ReasonMed-7B, which sets a new benchmark for sub-10B models, outperforming the prior best by 4.17\% and even exceeding LLaMA3.1-70B on PubMedQA by 4.60\%.