University Medicine Essen — Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Francois Beaulieu

Publications

2026

Less Finetuning, Better Retrieval: Rethinking LLM Adaptation for Biomedical Retrievers via Synthetic Data and Model Merging Sameh Khattab, Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Osman Alperen Koraş, Amin Dada, Julian Friedrich, François Beaulieu, Paul Vozila, Jens Kleesiek arXiv

2025

A Modular Approach for Clinical SLMs Driven by Synthetic Data with Pre-Instruction Tuning, Model Merging, and Clinical-Tasks Alignment Jean-Philippe Corbeil, Amin Dada, Jean-Michel Attendu, Asma Ben Abacha, Alessandro Sordoni, Lucas Caccia, François Beaulieu, Thomas Lin, Jens Kleesiek, Paul Vozila Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)