Aligning LLMs with Biomedical Knowledge using Balanced Fine-Tuning
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arXiv:2511.21075v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Engineering LLMs to accelerate life sciences research requires a robust alignment with biomedical knowledge. We observe that biomedical text exhibits a fundamentally different uncertainty structure from general text: dense low-confidence runs encode epistemic knowledge gaps (dense causal chains, rare entities) rather than the sparse aleatoric stylistic variation typical of general text. Based on this discovery, we propose Balanced Fine-Tuning (BFT), a dual-scale post-training method that combines group-normalized token reweighting with
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2511.21075v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Engineering LLMs to accelerate life sciences research requires a robust alignment with biomedical knowledge.
- We observe that biomedical text exhibits a fundamentally different uncertainty structure from general text: dense low-confidence runs encode epistemic knowledge gaps (dense causal chains, rare entities) rather than the sparse aleatoric stylistic variation typical of general text.
- Based on this discovery, we propose Balanced Fine-Tuning (BFT), a dual-scale post-training method that combines group-normalized token reweighting with
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