Preprint
Jul 2026
MedLLM: An Open Medical Language Model at the Sub-Billion Scale
Across medical benchmarks, MedLLM shows a pattern visible only at sub-billion scale: medical competence does not degrade uniformly under compression but splits by task type and dissociation is masked at 7B, where both capabilities are present, and surfaces only when capacity is scarce.
M. R. Rahman, Asim Ahmed, Mihan Mohagheghzadeh et al.
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