Latent Decision Flow Rewards for Clinical Guideline Reasoning
arXiv:2610.38709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical practice guidelines encode evidence-based recommendations as conditional decision flows, which makes them a natural source of process supervision for training reasoning models. Two properties of clinical reasoning make this supervision difficult to use. A decision flow consistent with a guideline does not by itself determine the correct answer for a given patient, which we call the path--answer gap, and several valid decision flows can…