arXiv:2603.01241cs.IRcs.AI2026-03被引 5

让医疗推理模型在测试时检索知识与案例,提升决策可靠性。

TARSE: Test-Time Adaptation via Retrieval of Skills and Experience for Reasoning Agents

  • 分离临床技能与过往案例,构建可检索的双资源库。
  • 测试时检索并适配,使推理逻辑更符合临床规范。
  • 适合需高可靠性的医疗AI系统开发者使用。

复杂临床决策失败往往并非因模型缺知识,而是无法在恰当推理步骤中选择并应用正确的程序性知识与先前案例。本文将临床问答建模为智能体问题,引入两类可检索资源:技能(如指南、协议、药理机制等可复用的临床流程)和经验(已验证的推理路径,如思维链解法及其步骤分解)。测试时,智能体从预建库中检索相关技能与经验,进行轻量级测试时适应,以对齐语言模型的中间推理与临床有效逻辑。具体构建了三部分:(i) 基于指南文档的可执行决策规则技能库;(ii) 以步骤级转移为索引的示范推理链经验库;(iii) 步骤感知的检索器,用于选取当前病例最相关的技能与经验项。随后基于检索内容对模型进行适应,减少实例-步骤错配,防止推理滑向无依据捷径。在多个医学问答基准上,性能持续优于强基线RAG方法与仅靠提示的推理策略。结果表明,显式分离并检索临床技能与经验,再于测试时对齐,是实现更可靠的医疗智能体的可行路径。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Complex clinical decision making often fails not because a model lacks facts, but because it cannot reliably select and apply the right procedural knowledge and the right prior example at the right reasoning step. We frame clinical question answering as an agent problem with two explicit, retrievable resources: skills, reusable clinical procedures such as guidelines, protocols, and pharmacologic mechanisms; and experience, verified reasoning trajectories from previously solved cases (e.g., chain-of-thought solutions and their step-level decompositions). At test time, the agent retrieves both relevant skills and experiences from curated libraries and performs lightweight test-time adaptation to align the language model's intermediate reasoning with clinically valid logic. Concretely, we build (i) a skills library from guideline-style documents organized as executable decision rules, (ii) an experience library of exemplar clinical reasoning chains indexed by step-level transitions, and (iii) a step-aware retriever that selects the most useful skill and experience items for the current case. We then adapt the model on the retrieved items to reduce instance-step misalignment and to prevent reasoning from drifting toward unsupported shortcuts. Experiments on medical question-answering benchmarks show consistent gains over strong medical RAG baselines and prompting-only reasoning methods. Our results suggest that explicitly separating and retrieving clinical skills and experience, and then aligning the model at test time, is a practical approach to more reliable medical agents.

医疗AI推理增强测试时适应

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