Table 4 The comparison of Me-LLaMA models and existing open source medical LLMs

From: Medical foundation large language models for comprehensive text analysis and beyond

Model

Backbone

Model size

Biomedical literature

Clinical notes

Continual pre-training (# of tokens)

Instruction tuning (# of instructions)

Evaluation tasks

Release date

MedAlpaca3

LLaMA

7/13B

✓

✗

-

160 K

QA

04/14/2023

ChatDoctor12

LLaMA2

7B

✓

✗

-

100 K

QA

05/24/2023

AlpaCare28

LLaMA

7/13B

✓

✗

-

52 K

QA, Summarization

10/23/2023

Clinical LLaMA11

LLaMA

7B

✗

✓

-

-

Classification

07/06/2023

Meditron10

LLaMA2

7/70B

✓

✗

48B

-

QA

11/27/2023

PMC-LLaMA2

LLaMA

7/13B

✓

✗

79B

514 K

QA

04/27/2023

Me-LLaMA

LLaMA2

13/70B

✓

✓

129B

214 K

QA, NER, RE, Classification, Summarization, NLI, Medical Diagnosis

06/05/2024