DCH

Quantifying Evidence for Competing Biomedical Hypotheses using Large Language Models and Bayesian Analysis

Science fundamentally depends on the generation and testing of hypotheses, many of them controversial. An explosion in scientific literature has made evaluating hypotheses even within a domain a problem of scale, and risks slowing an already extensive consensus-building process. While this challenge has prompted interest in automated hypothesis evaluation tools, existing methods have not yet proven effective for comparing hypotheses.