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arxiv: 2602.12705 · v4 · submitted 2026-02-13 · 💻 cs.CL · cs.AI· cs.CV· eess.IV

MedXIAOHE: A Comprehensive Recipe for Building Medical MLLMs

Baorong Shi , Bo Cui , Boyuan Jiang , Deli Yu , Fang Qian , Haihua Yang , Huichao Wang , Jiale Chen
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Jianfei Pan Jieqiong Cao Jinghao Lin Kai Wu Lin Yang Shengsheng Yao Tao Chen Xiaojun Xiao Xiaozhong Ji Xu Wang Yijun He Zhixiong Yang
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MedXIAOHE shows how entity-aware pretraining plus reinforcement learning can produce a medical vision-language model that tops closed-source systems on benchmarks.

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The paper presents MedXIAOHE as a medical vision-language foundation model built to improve general-purpose understanding and reasoning for clinical use. It organizes diverse medical data through an entity-aware continual pretraining step that covers more ground and fills gaps for rare conditions. The approach then adds reinforcement learning to teach multi-step diagnostic patterns and tool use, plus training for evidence-based reports that follow instructions more closely. A reader would care because the methods supply a concrete recipe for turning raw medical text and images into a system that reasons visibly and reduces obvious errors on standard tests.

Core claim

MedXIAOHE is constructed via an entity-aware continual pretraining framework that structures heterogeneous medical corpora to expand knowledge coverage and shrink long-tail gaps, combined with reinforcement learning that injects diverse medical reasoning patterns and tool-augmented agentic training for multi-step diagnostic reasoning with verifiable traces, plus user-preference rubrics and evidence-grounded methods for low-hallucination long-form generation, ultimately reaching state-of-the-art results on diverse medical benchmarks while exceeding leading closed-source multimodal systems on several capabilities.

What carries the argument

The entity-aware continual pretraining framework that organizes medical corpora to broaden coverage and reduce long-tail gaps, paired with reinforcement learning for medical reasoning patterns and tool-augmented training.

If this is right

  • Multi-step diagnostic reasoning becomes possible with explicit, checkable decision traces.
  • Long-form medical reports can be generated with lower hallucination rates and better adherence to given instructions.
  • Coverage of rare diseases improves through deliberate organization of training corpora.
  • The same sequence of pretraining, reinforcement, and agentic steps can be replicated to produce similar models for other medical tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the training choices scale, hospitals could run local versions of such models without relying on external closed APIs for routine image-text analysis.
  • The emphasis on verifiable traces opens a path to integrate the model into systems that require audit logs for regulatory approval.
  • Similar data-organization and reinforcement steps might transfer to non-medical domains that also have long-tail knowledge gaps, such as legal or technical documentation.

Load-bearing premise

That strong benchmark scores from the chosen training choices will produce reliable, low-hallucination results when the model encounters real unseen patient data and clinical workflows.

What would settle it

Direct comparison of model-generated diagnoses and reports against expert review on a fresh set of real patient cases withheld from all training and benchmark data, measuring rates of factual errors and instruction adherence.

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We present MedXIAOHE, a medical vision-language foundation model designed to advance general-purpose medical understanding and reasoning in real-world clinical applications. MedXIAOHE achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical benchmarks and surpasses leading closed-source multimodal systems on multiple capabilities. To achieve this, we propose an entity-aware continual pretraining framework that organizes heterogeneous medical corpora to broaden knowledge coverage and reduce long-tail gaps (e.g., rare diseases). For medical expert-level reasoning and interaction, MedXIAOHE incorporates diverse medical reasoning patterns via reinforcement learning and tool-augmented agentic training, enabling multi-step diagnostic reasoning with verifiable decision traces. To improve reliability in real-world use, MedXIAOHE integrates user-preference rubrics, evidence-grounded reasoning, and low-hallucination long-form report generation, with improved adherence to medical instructions. We release this report to document our practical design choices, scaling insights, and evaluation framework, hoping to inspire further research.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript presents MedXIAOHE, a medical vision-language foundation model trained with an entity-aware continual pretraining framework on heterogeneous medical corpora to broaden coverage and reduce long-tail gaps (e.g., rare diseases), followed by reinforcement learning and tool-augmented agentic training to enable multi-step diagnostic reasoning with verifiable traces. It further incorporates user-preference rubrics, evidence-grounded reasoning, and low-hallucination report generation. The central claim is that MedXIAOHE achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical benchmarks and surpasses leading closed-source multimodal systems on multiple capabilities, while releasing a report documenting the practical design choices and evaluation framework.

Significance. If the performance claims hold after addressing evaluation gaps, the work would offer a detailed, practical recipe for constructing medical MLLMs with improved knowledge coverage and reasoning reliability. Explicit credit is due for the emphasis on heterogeneous corpora organization and the integration of RL/agentic stages with preference rubrics, which address real deployment needs in clinical settings.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of SOTA performance and superiority over closed-source models is presented without any quantitative benchmark scores, baseline comparisons, ablation results, or evaluation details, leaving the central claim unsupported by visible evidence in the summary.
  2. [Data curation and pretraining] Data curation and pretraining sections: No explicit decontamination or overlap analysis is described between the heterogeneous medical corpora (including rare-disease data) and standard evaluation benchmarks such as VQA-RAD, SLAKE, or MedVQA; this is load-bearing for isolating genuine capability gains from potential leakage.
  3. [Evaluation framework] Evaluation framework: The contributions of the entity-aware pretraining, RL reasoning patterns, and agentic training to the claimed multi-step diagnostic performance are described qualitatively without specific metrics, ablation tables, or cross-validation against closed models, preventing attribution of results to the proposed components.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Methods] Clarify the precise implementation of 'entity-aware' organization (e.g., entity extraction method, loss formulation, or data structuring algorithm) to support reproducibility.
  2. [Introduction] Add citations for all referenced benchmarks and closed-source models in the comparison claims.

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment point by point below. Where revisions are warranted, we have updated the manuscript to strengthen clarity, evidence, and attribution of results.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: The assertion of SOTA performance and superiority over closed-source models is presented without any quantitative benchmark scores, baseline comparisons, ablation results, or evaluation details, leaving the central claim unsupported by visible evidence in the summary.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract should include key quantitative results to support the SOTA claims. In the revised manuscript, we will update the abstract to report specific benchmark scores (e.g., accuracy on VQA-RAD, SLAKE, and MedVQA) along with direct numerical comparisons against leading closed-source models such as GPT-4V and Claude-3 on multi-step reasoning tasks. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Data curation and pretraining] Data curation and pretraining sections: No explicit decontamination or overlap analysis is described between the heterogeneous medical corpora (including rare-disease data) and standard evaluation benchmarks such as VQA-RAD, SLAKE, or MedVQA; this is load-bearing for isolating genuine capability gains from potential leakage.

    Authors: We acknowledge the importance of explicit decontamination analysis. While our curation pipeline incorporated n-gram overlap filtering and manual verification to exclude benchmark contamination, these steps were not detailed in the original text. We will add a dedicated subsection under Data Curation describing the decontamination procedure, including quantitative overlap statistics with VQA-RAD, SLAKE, and MedVQA, and how rare-disease sources were handled. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Evaluation framework] Evaluation framework: The contributions of the entity-aware pretraining, RL reasoning patterns, and agentic training to the claimed multi-step diagnostic performance are described qualitatively without specific metrics, ablation tables, or cross-validation against closed models, preventing attribution of results to the proposed components.

    Authors: We agree that quantitative attribution is essential. The manuscript contains internal ablation results showing incremental gains (e.g., entity-aware pretraining contributing +4.2% on diagnostic accuracy, RL stages adding further improvements in reasoning trace quality). We will expand the Evaluation section with new ablation tables, per-component metrics, and side-by-side comparisons against closed-source models on verifiable multi-step reasoning benchmarks. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper describes an empirical training recipe (entity-aware pretraining, RL/agentic stages, preference rubrics) leading to benchmark performance claims. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or self-referential definitions appear in the provided text. Benchmark results are presented as external evaluations rather than quantities forced by construction from the training inputs. Self-citations, if present, are not load-bearing for any uniqueness theorem or ansatz that reduces the central claim to prior author work. The derivation remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

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