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Knows the Facts, Misses the Plot: LLMs’ Knowledge–Reasoning Split in Clinical NLI

TL;DR for operators A model that can answer clinical fact-checking questions is not necessarily a model that can reason clinically. That is the inconvenient result of The Knowledge-Reasoning Dissociation: Fundamental Limitations of LLMs in Clinical Natural Language Inference, which introduces CTNLI, a controlled clinical NLI benchmark paired with Ground Knowledge and Meta-Level Reasoning Verification probes.1 ...

August 18, 2025 · 19 min · Zelina