BioMistral: A Collection of Open-Source Pretrained Large Language Models for Medical Domains

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility in recent years, offering potential applications across specialized domains such as healthcare and medicine.Despite the availability of various open-source LLMs tailored for health contexts, adapting general-purpose LLMs to the medical domain presents significant challenges.In this paper, we introduce BioMistral, an open-source LLM tailored for the biomedical domain, utilizing Mistral as its foundation model and further pre-trained on PubMed Central.We conduct a comprehensive evaluation of BioMistral on a benchmark comprising 10 established medical question-answering (QA) tasks in English.We also explore lightweight models obtained through…

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  Agence Nationale de la Recherche

  Award: ANR-23-IAS1-0005
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  Grand Équipement National De Calcul Intensif