MedMeta C
AI benchmark · Biomedicine
- Publisher
- Paper Arxiv
- Domains
- Biomedicine Healthcare
- Tier
- C why
- Snapshot
What is MedMeta?
Large language models (LLMs) have saturated standard medical benchmarks that test factual recall, yet their ability to perform higher-order reasoning, such as synthesizing evidence from multiple sources, remains critically under-explored. To address this gap, we introduce MedMeta, the first benchmark designed to evaluate an LLM's ability to generate conclusions from medical meta-analyses using only the abstracts of cited studies. MedMeta comprises 81 meta-analyses from PubMed (2018--2025) and evaluates models using two distinct workflows: a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Golden-RAG) setting with ground-truth abstracts, and a Parametric-only approach relying on internal knowledge. Our evaluation framework is validated by a well-structured analysis showing our LLM-as-a-judge protocol strongly aligns with human expert ratings, as evidenced by high Pearson's r correlation (0.81) and Bland-Altman analysis revealing negligible systematic bias, establishing it as a reliable proxy for scalable evaluation. Our findings underscore the critical importance of information grounding: the Golden-RAG workflow consistently and significantly outperforms the Parametric-only approach across models. In contrast, the benefits of domain-specific fine-tuning are marginal and largely neutralized when external material is provided. Furthermore, stress tests show that all models, regardless of architecture, fail to identify and reject negated evidence, highlighting a critical vulnerability in current RAG systems. Notably, even under ideal RAG conditions, current LLMs achieve only slightly above-average performance (~2.7/5.0). MedMeta provides a challenging new benchmark for evidence synthesis and demonstrates that for clinical applications, developing robust RAG systems is a more promising direction than model specialization alone.
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