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medAlpaca

LLM finetuned for medical question answering

Project last updated:09/07/23

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Why we included this project

medAlpaca is a practical starting point for teams that want a medical question-answering model without training one from scratch. It ships LLaMA-based models fine-tuned on biomedical sources like flashcards, wikis, USMLE self-assessments, and medical dialogue data, along with the training scripts and memory benchmarks needed to reproduce or extend them. The LoRA and 8-bit training paths are especially useful if you plan to adapt the approach to your own clinical or educational text on a single GPU. Researchers and developers prototyping medical chatbots will find both ready weights and a clear recipe for domain fine-tuning in one place, plus the Medical Meadow dataset collection used to build it.

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