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Satvik Tripathi

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MARC v1: An Open-Source Multi-Agent Framework for Clinical AI Reasoning and Coordination

We present Multi-Agent Reasoning and Coordination (MARC), an open-source framework that replaces monolithic LLM prompting with deterministic multi-agent orchestration for clinical reasoning. MARC coordinates role-specialized agents for extraction, reasoning, answer generation, and evaluation, with explicit context passing and traceable intermediate outputs, enabling stage-wise failure attribution. We additionally introduce a Decomposer module that generates task-specific agent prompts from a plain-language description, eliminating manual prompt engineering. The framework supports both API-based and local CPU-compatible deployments and is entirely configurable via YAML, without code modifications. MARC is designed to be model-agnostic, interpretable, and accessible to clinical domain experts without programming expertise. The full framework is available at https://github.com/Penn-RAIL/MARC-v1.

cs.AI

SPARC-Rad: A Multimodal Benchmark Dataset and Evaluation Pipeline for Spatial and Anatomical Reasoning in Radiology Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly being evaluated for medical imaging, but many available benchmarks emphasize disease classification, report generation, or broad visual question answering rather than the spatial and anatomical reasoning required for radiology. We developed the Spatial Perception and Anatomical Reasoning in Clinical Radiology (SPARC-Rad) Benchmark, a manually curated multimodal benchmark dataset and evaluation pipeline for assessing these capabilities in radiology VLMs. SPARC-Rad includes 300 image-question pairs derived from healthy control imaging studies in The Cancer Imaging Archive (TCIA), spanning CT, MRI, and radiography across the abdomen, chest, breast, neuro, and musculoskeletal categories. Radiology trainees manually designed and annotated questions to evaluate anatomical identification, localization, laterality, regional recognition, device identification, and inter-structure spatial relationships. The evaluation pipeline supports standardized prompting, structured output collection, response normalization, LLM-as-judge grading, human quality review, binary correctness scoring, and subgroup analysis by modality, anatomy, and reasoning type. SPARC-Rad provides a reusable framework for evaluating whether VLMs can provide reasoning for radiologic anatomy as a spatial system, supporting future model development, failure-mode analysis, and pre-deployment assessment.

cs.CV

CheckSupport: A Local LLM-Powered Tool for Automated Manuscript Submission Checklist Selection and Completion

Transparent and standardized reporting is essential for reproducible scientific research, yet adherence to reporting guidelines remains inconsistent because of the manual effort required to select and complete checklists. We present CheckSupport, an open-source, locally deployable system that uses large language models to automate the recommendation of reporting checklists and the evidence-grounded completion of checklists for scientific manuscripts. CheckSupport employs a staged prompting strategy that decomposes reporting workflows into constrained inference tasks, prioritizing faithful extraction over generative text synthesis. All inference is performed locally using instruction-tuned models, preserving data privacy and enabling reproducible, auditable workflows. Evaluated on a corpus of peer-reviewed manuscripts, CheckSupport achieved 90% overall accuracy for checklist recommendations and 88% overall accuracy for item-level completion while operating on CPU-only hardware. On average, the wall-clock time per manuscript was 12.5 seconds, including the checklist recommendation and full checklist completion. These results demonstrate that large language models, when applied as structured inference components, can reduce reporting burden and support more transparent and reproducible scientific reporting across disciplines.

cs.DL

Logic Sketch Prompting (LSP): A Deterministic and Interpretable Prompting Method

Large language models (LLMs) excel at natural language reasoning but remain unreliable on tasks requiring strict rule adherence, determinism, and auditability. Logic Sketch Prompting (LSP) is a lightweight prompting framework that introduces typed variables, deterministic condition evaluators, and a rule based validator that produces traceable and repeatable outputs. Using two pharmacologic logic compliance tasks, we benchmark LSP against zero shot prompting, chain of thought prompting, and concise prompting across three open weight models: Gemma 2, Mistral, and Llama 3. Across both tasks and all models, LSP consistently achieves the highest accuracy (0.83 to 0.89) and F1 score (0.83 to 0.89), substantially outperforming zero shot prompting (0.24 to 0.60), concise prompts (0.16 to 0.30), and chain of thought prompting (0.56 to 0.75). McNemar tests show statistically significant gains for LSP across nearly all comparisons (p < 0.01). These results demonstrate that LSP improves determinism, interpretability, and consistency without sacrificing performance, supporting its use in clinical, regulated, and safety critical decision support systems.

cs.AI

PRECISE Framework: GPT-based Text For Improved Readability, Reliability, and Understandability of Radiology Reports For Patient-Centered Care

This study introduces and evaluates the PRECISE framework, utilizing OpenAI's GPT-4 to enhance patient engagement by providing clearer and more accessible chest X-ray reports at a sixth-grade reading level. The framework was tested on 500 reports, demonstrating significant improvements in readability, reliability, and understandability. Statistical analyses confirmed the effectiveness of the PRECISE approach, highlighting its potential to foster patient-centric care delivery in healthcare decision-making.

cs.CL

EvoSTS Forecasting: Evolutionary Sparse Time-Series Forecasting

In this work, we highlight our novel evolutionary sparse time-series forecasting algorithm also known as EvoSTS. The algorithm attempts to evolutionary prioritize weights of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) Network that best minimize the reconstruction loss of a predicted signal using a learned sparse coded dictionary. In each generation of our evolutionary algorithm, a set number of children with the same initial weights are spawned. Each child undergoes a training step and adjusts their weights on the same data. Due to stochastic back-propagation, the set of children has a variety of weights with different levels of performance. The weights that best minimize the reconstruction loss with a given signal dictionary are passed to the next generation. The predictions from the best-performing weights of the first and last generation are compared. We found improvements while comparing the weights of these two generations. However, due to several confounding parameters and hyperparameter limitations, some of the weights had negligible improvements. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use sparse coding in this way to optimize time series forecasting model weights, such as those of an LSTM network.

cs.NE

Early Diagnostic Prediction of Covid-19 using Gradient-Boosting Machine Model

With the huge spike in the COVID-19 cases across the globe and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test remains a key component for rapid and accurate detection of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In recent months there has been an acute shortage of medical supplies in developing countries, especially a lack of RT-PCR testing resulting in delayed patient care and high infection rates. We present a gradient-boosting machine model that predicts the diagnostics result of SARS-CoV- 2 in an RT-PCR test by utilizing eight binary features. We used the publicly available nationwide dataset released by the Israeli Ministry of Health.

cs.LG