MINT-LLM

Official codebase for MINT (Multimodal Integrated kNowledge Transfer) from the paper:

Wu, D., Wang, Z., Nguyen, Q., Xu, Z., Wang, K., Multimodal Integrated Knowledge Transfer to Large Language Models through Preference Optimization with Biomedical Applications. arXiv:2505.05736

ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05736

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Public Repository Notes

• Due to privacy and compliance restrictions, the GMDB dataset used in the paper is not publicly released.
• This repository provides training/inference scripts and pretrained checkpoints for reproducibility-oriented experiments.
• Some scripts were originally developed for internal HPC paths and are being progressively refactored into path-configurable public workflows.
• Phenopacket-derived clinical notes can be found at: https://github.com/WGLab/CoT-RAG-LLM-Gene-Prioritization-Disease-Diagnosis/tree/main/dataset

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Repository Structure

• main_scripts/ — main SFT/DPO/ORPO training and inference entry scripts.

• main_scripts/README.md — script catalog and execution guidance.

• utils/ — model loading utilities, seed setup, dataset helpers, and post-processing.

• AutoEvaluator/ — evaluation pipeline and processors.

• MINT-ckpt/ — released language-model checkpoint artifacts.

• MINT-vision-ckpt/ — released vision-language checkpoint artifacts.

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Environment Setup

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

If you need Hugging Face gated model access, set token via environment variable:

export HF_TOKEN=your_token_here

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Example: Inference with vLLM Script

main_scripts/RareDxGPT_inference_vllm.py now supports public-friendly path arguments:

python main_scripts/RareDxGPT_inference_vllm.py \
  --project_root /path/to/MINT-LLM \
  --peft_model_id checkpoints/your_adapter_dir \
  --base_model_path /path/to/base_model \
  --disease bws

Notes:

• --peft_model_id is resolved relative to --project_root.
• --hf_token can be passed explicitly, or omitted if HF_TOKEN is already set.

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Hardware and Runtime

• Original large-scale experiments were run on multi-GPU SLURM clusters (e.g., A100).
• For local inference, adjust model size, batch size, and vLLM settings according to available GPU memory.

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License

This project is released under the license in LICENSE.