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Rethinking Next-Visit Diagnosis Prediction Beyond Aggregate Metrics: Retrieval--Memory Multi-Agent Adjudication
arXiv:2611.03826v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Next-visit diagnosis prediction forecasts the diagnoses documented at a patient's next encounter, turning retrospective electronic health records into prospective clinical prediction. However, conventional aggregate evaluation obscures its multifaceted nature: distributionally, models must handle variable-size diagnosis sets and long-tailed labels; temporally, they must distinguish persistent, newly recorded, and recurrent diagnoses; and both vary with observed history depth. We introduce an evaluation framework along these dimensions and apply it to rule-based heuristics, LLM-based prompting, retrieval, memory, and multi-agent approaches. This reveals that repeating the last visit outperforms most LLM-based approaches overall despite predicting no new or recurrent diagnoses, and that retrieval and memory exhibit distinct profiles whose relative strengths vary across temporal transitions and backbones. Motivated by this, we propose LONGINUS, a retrieval-memory multi-agent adjudication framework combining evidence retrieved from patient records with structured memory of the patient trajectory. Using cross-view agreement as a reliability heuristic, it preserves shared predictions and adjudicates disagreements without revealing their source. Across MIMIC-III and MIMIC-IV with four LLM backbones, LONGINUS achieves the best transition-specific performance among LLM-based methods in nearly all settings while remaining competitive with them on aggregate metrics.
v1.19.0 - Trace Your Workflows, Layer by Layer
Dify 1.19.0 enhances observability with nested workflow tracing, allowing users to follow execution steps inside Workflow Tools, inspect LLM calls, and maintain context across nested invocations. The release also enables portable app packages via App packages, improves Agent file uploads and previews, introduces Skill Hub automation through CLI commands, and upgrades the bundled plugin daemon to version 0.6.14-local. Key changes include support for format v2 app packages, enhanced security, improved editing workflows, and updated environment variables and API endpoints.
How to Build Proactive, Always-On Agents with the Schedules SDK in Managed Deep Agents
Most proactive agents run on a simple cron. Learn what scheduled runs unlock, from memory to smart triage, and how to add them to Managed Deep Agents.
How to build evidence-grounded agent memory with OpenWiki and Graphs
LangChain used OpenWiki, its open-source wiki compiler, and an evidence graph to build a persistent memory layer that preserves knowledge for agents to reuse across tasks. Learn how.
How LangChain grew self-serve analytics questions 40x by giving its AI agent layered context
LangChain gave its Hex agent layered context, turning self-serve analytics questions from occasional to routine.
How We Built Our Design Agent
How LangChain built Content Studio, an open-source design agent in Slack that makes on-brand videos, graphics and decks, and the harness that powers it.
Context Engineering (Agent Memory) for AI Agents Starts with Retrieval
Agents waste time and context on clumsy searches, oversized results and stale data. Learn the retrieval techniques LangChain's Deep Agents harness uses to get the right context in.
Context Engineering with Deep Agents: How To Remember Without Keeping Everything In Context
Long-running agents degrade as context piles up. Learn how offloading, summarization, skills, subagents, and memory keep your agent's context window focused.