Research Highlight 1: Guideline-Supervised Clinical Agents
2026.03 — 2026.08Guideline-as-Oracle: Ophthalmic Telephone Triage · First-author manuscript under review at AAAI
- Data & training: Developed a guideline-to-dialogue pipeline to address the cost of annotating multi-turn clinical conversations, converting a 70-row ophthalmic rule table into 3,000 training dialogues with rule-derived urgency labels. Performed full-parameter SFT of a 9B model using class resampling and nurse-role token supervision, and investigated Outcome GRPO as an exploratory post-training approach.
- Evaluation: Relative to the base 9B model, improved agreement from 61.7% to 74.1% and emergency recall from 9.5% to 69.0% on 201 internal rule-reference cases; checked robustness with a second training seed and patient simulator.
This reference also informed development and model selection, so these results measure internal policy conformance rather than held-out clinical generalization.