R. Rawassizadeh

Small but Specialized: A Domain-Adapted Retrieval-Augmented LLM Outperforms Frontier Generalists in Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

A small, domain-specialized retrieval-augmented LLM can safely and substantially outperform far larger generalist models on a sensitive pediatric clinical domain, demonstrating that specialization plus citation-grounded retrieval, not scale alone, is a practical path to deployable clinical AI.