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Aug 2026
Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models on Anesthesiology Board-Style Questions: Benchmark Study
RAG-based LLM systems improved performance on anesthesiology board-style questions, but gains depended strongly on retrieval design, and reasoning-oriented models demonstrated that multistep reasoning can, in some settings, compensate for larger parameter scale.
Nguyen Quang Phuong, S. Ruan, Pei-fu Chen
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