arXiv:2603.17191cs.CLcs.LG2026-03

用专精表格的大模型,少样本预测阿尔茨海默病,结果更准更可解释。

Tabular LLMs for Interpretable Few-Shot Alzheimer's Disease Prediction with Multimodal Biomedical Data

  • 基于TableGPT2构建表格专用大模型,用提示词方式处理生物标志物数据。
  • 在小样本下优于传统机器学习,在缺失数据下仍保持稳定性能。
  • 生成符合医学知识的结构化推理,适合临床决策系统迭代使用。

阿尔茨海默病(AD)的精准诊断需处理表格式生物标志物数据,但此类数据常规模小且不完整,深度学习模型往往难以超越传统方法。预训练大语言模型(LLMs)具备少样本泛化、结构化推理和可解释输出能力,为临床预测带来范式转变。我们提出TAP-GPT——一种基于TableGPT2并针对少样本AD分类微调的表格专用大模型框架,采用表格提示而非纯文本输入。在四个源自ADNI的数据集上评估,涵盖QT-PAD生物标志物及区域水平的结构磁共振成像、淀粉样蛋白PET和τ-PET数据,用于二分类任务。在多模态与单模态设置下,TAP-GPT均优于其基础模型,并在少样本条件下超越传统机器学习基线,同时与最先进通用大模型相当。我们发现特征选择可缓解高维输入下的性能退化,且TAP-GPT在模拟与真实缺失数据下无需插补即可保持稳定表现。此外,模型生成的推理具有模态感知性,与已知的AD生物学机制一致,且在自我反思下表现出更强稳定性,支持其在多智能体系统中的迭代应用。据我们所知,这是首个系统性将表格专用大模型应用于多模态生物标志物驱动的AD预测工作,证明了预训练模型能有效解决结构化临床预测任务,并为表格大模型驱动的多智能体临床辅助决策系统奠定基础。源代码已在GitHub公开:https://github.com/sophie-kearney/TAP-GPT。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) requires handling tabular biomarker data, yet such data are often small and incomplete, where deep learning models frequently fail to outperform classical methods. Pretrained large language models (LLMs) offer few-shot generalization, structured reasoning, and interpretable outputs, providing a powerful paradigm shift for clinical prediction. We propose TAP-GPT Tabular Alzheimer's Prediction GPT, a domain-adapted tabular LLM framework built on TableGPT2 and fine-tuned for few-shot AD classification using tabular prompts rather than plain texts. We evaluate TAP-GPT across four ADNI-derived datasets, including QT-PAD biomarkers and region-level structural MRI, amyloid PET, and tau PET for binary AD classification. Across multimodal and unimodal settings, TAP-GPT improves upon its backbone models and outperforms traditional machine learning baselines in the few-shot setting while remaining competitive with state-of-the-art general-purpose LLMs. We show that feature selection mitigates degradation in high-dimensional inputs and that TAP-GPT maintains stable performance under simulated and real-world missingness without imputation. Additionally, TAP-GPT produces structured, modality-aware reasoning aligned with established AD biology and shows greater stability under self-reflection, supporting its use in iterative multi-agent systems. To our knowledge, this is the first systematic application of a tabular-specialized LLM to multimodal biomarker-based AD prediction, demonstrating that such pretrained models can effectively address structured clinical prediction tasks and laying the foundation for tabular LLM-driven multi-agent clinical decision-support systems. The source code is publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/sophie-kearney/TAP-GPT.

阿尔茨海默病表格大模型少样本学习可解释性

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