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论文提出评估框架:LLM 智能体生成医疗运营决策权重需先审计

On the possibilities and limitations of LLM-based multi-agent systems for multi-criteria decision-making in healthcare operations management

精选理由

把多个 LLM 智能体当利益相关方给医疗排班打分这招能用,但论文用实验证明讨论会抹平分歧、选项顺序会带偏结果,想真拿来做决策前得先跑这套审计方法。

arXiv 论文提出一个框架,用于评估 LLM 多智能体系统在医疗运营多准则决策中生成的偏好权重是否可靠。实验以门诊预约排班为场景,让智能体显式评分为等待时间、工作量和成本赋权,结果发现显式偏好随诊所运营条件变化、因角色而异,但智能体间讨论会抹平差异,简单平均反而保留差异。通过急诊室配置的成对选择测隐式偏好时,结果主要取决于选项呈现顺序,加入上下文信息的统计模型对预测新对比对帮助有限。作者据此构建鲁棒加权优化模型,发现多数情况下其选择的排班方案不同于用平均偏好权重的结果,主张 LLM 偏好在作为优化权重前需经过此类审计。

原文 · arXiv cs.AI

On the possibilities and limitations of LLM-based multi-agent systems for multi-criteria decision-making in healthcare operations management

Multi-criteria models for healthcare operations need weights that express how stakeholders trade off patient waiting time, provider workload, and operating cost, but these weights are difficult to quantify. Teams of large language model (LLM) agents, each prompted to represent a stakeholder, have been used to supply them. We propose a framework for assessing the reliability of LLM-generated preferences as inputs to multi-objective optimization and quantifying how their uncertainty affects decisions. We study explicit preferences by asking agents to rate the importance of the criteria in an outpatient appointment scheduling problem, and implicit preferences by inferring trade-offs from the agents' pairwise choices between emergency department configurations. The computational experiments show that the explicit preferences respond to the clinic's operating conditions and differ across roles, but deliberation among the agents can erase these differences, whereas simple averaging preserves them. The pairwise choices used to reveal the agents' implicit preferences depend largely on which option is presented first, and we find limited evidence that a statistical model using contextual information alongside presentation order predicts the agents' choices on new comparison pairs better than a model using presentation order alone. We then formulate robust weighted-sum optimization models to account for preference uncertainty. In most cases, these models select different schedules or configurations from those obtained using average preference weights. These results indicate that LLM-generated preferences need an audit of this kind before they are used as optimization weights in healthcare decision support.