Reinforcement Learning for Evidence-Seeking Diagnostic Reasoning with Large Language Models

arXiv:2607.02983v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent reasoning-centric Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides, yet they predominantly operate on a passive-inference pattern that assumes complete information. In contrast, real-world clinical intelligence is inherently an iterative investigative process requiring strategic evidence acquisition. To bridge this gap, we formalize medical diagnosis as an Iterative Evidence-Seeking Task. We leverage Reinforcement Learning with Ver...