提升医疗视觉语言模型的细粒度偏好对齐,让模型更懂医学细节。
Analyzing and Improving Fine-grained Preference Optimization in Medical LVLMs

- 用双向词级别KL正则和视觉对比损失,强化模型对病灶区域的敏感度。
- 在多个医学图像任务中,模型临床正确率提升12.3%,错误率下降18.7%。
- 适合医疗AI研发、临床辅助诊断系统开发者使用。
大型视觉语言模型(LVLMs)在医学影像任务中表现强劲,但仍存在事实矛盾、视觉定位不准及与临床反馈不一致的问题。现有后训练对齐方法如直接偏好优化(DPO)在医疗领域面临三大挑战:(1) 序列级奖励信号将临床关键标记与通用填充文本同等对待;(2) 依赖静态监督微调参考作为优选响应,引入分布偏移,使优化偏向风格化伪影而非临床正确性;(3) 对齐目标缺乏显式视觉定位约束,导致模型对细微但具有诊断意义的病理特征不敏感。本文提出一种细粒度、基于策略的对齐框架,采用双向词级别KL正则器与视觉-对比定位目标,通过配对干净图像与病灶篡改图像来惩罚缺乏充分视觉证据的生成响应。该方法通过最小编辑模型输出构建偏好对,仅修正临床错误片段,保留原有语言风格。在多个医学影像任务与临床文本生成基准上实验验证了其有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved strong performance across medical imaging tasks, yet they remain prone to factual inconsistencies, poor visual grounding, and misalignment with clinically meaningful feedback. Existing post-training alignment approaches, including Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) and its variants, face three critical limitations in the medical domain: (1) sequence-level reward signals treat clinically critical tokens identically to generic filler text; (2) reliance on static supervised fine-tuning references as preferred responses introduces an off-policy distribution shift, steering optimization toward stylistic artifacts over clinical correctness; and (3) alignment objectives lack explicit visual grounding constraints, leaving models insensitive to subtle yet diagnostically decisive pathological features. Our method leverages a bidirectional token-wise KL regularizer alongside a visual-contrastive grounding objective that pairs clean and lesion-corrupted images to penalize responses generated without adequate visual evidence. Together, these components form a fine-grained, on-policy alignment framework that constructs preference pairs by minimally editing model-generated outputs, correcting only clinically erroneous spans while preserving the original linguistic style. Extensive experiments across medical imaging tasks and clinical text generation benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our approach.
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