MedINST: Meta Dataset of Biomedical Instructions
Wenhan Han, Meng Fang, Zihan Zhang, Yu Yin, Zirui Song, Ling Chen, Mykola Pechenizkiy, Qingyu Chen
Abstract
The integration of large language model (LLM) techniques in the field of medical analysis has brought about significant advancements, yet the scarcity of large, diverse, and well-annotated datasets remains a major challenge. Medical data and tasks, which vary in format, size, and other parameters, require extensive preprocessing and standardization for effective use in training LLMs. To address these challenges, we introduce MedINST, the Meta Dataset of Biomedical Instructions, a novel multi-domain, multi-task instructional meta-dataset. MedINST comprises 133 biomedical NLP tasks and over 7 million training samples, making it the most comprehensive biomedical instruction dataset to date. Using MedINST as the meta dataset, we curate MedINST32, a challenging benchmark with different task difficulties aiming to evaluate LLMs’ generalization ability. We fine-tune several LLMs on MedINST and evaluate on MedINST32, showcasing enhanced cross-task generalization.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{han-etal-2024-medinst,
title = "{M}ed{INST}: Meta Dataset of Biomedical Instructions",
author = "Han, Wenhan and
Fang, Meng and
Zhang, Zihan and
Yin, Yu and
Song, Zirui and
Chen, Ling and
Pechenizkiy, Mykola and
Chen, Qingyu",
editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser and
Bansal, Mohit and
Chen, Yun-Nung",
booktitle = "Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024",
month = nov,
year = "2024",
address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.482/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.findings-emnlp.482",
pages = "8221--8240"
}