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Pradeep Murugesan, Luoxiao Yang, Xueli Chen, Xinqi Fan
Accurate and responsible medical question answering (QA) is important in healthcare, where complex cases require factual knowledge and nuanced reasoning. Existing medical QA systems, typically based on single-agent architectures and static retrieval, often lack adaptability, persistent memory, and structured decision-making. This work introduces an adaptive memory and reflection (AMR) agentic system, a multi-agent framework in which specialized agents use dedicated memory and reflection-based feedback to retrieve relevant prior cases and improve subsequent reasoning. Complexity assessment routes questions through solo, collaborative, or escalated workflows, while consensus and ethical overseer modules support reasoning consolidation and output review. Evaluation on MedQA and MedMCQA demonstrates strong performance compared with several baselines. Ablation studies show that combining agent-specific memory, reflection, and external retrieval yields the strongest performance. These findings highlight the potential of structured memory and feedback for developing more trustworthy medical agents. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/mm-air/AMR-Agent.
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@article{murugesan2026adaptive,
title = {Adaptive Memory and Reflection Multi-Agent System for Medical Question Answering},
author = {Pradeep Murugesan and Luoxiao Yang and Xueli Chen and Xinqi Fan},
year = {2026},
abstract = {Accurate and responsible medical question answering (QA) is important in healthcare, where complex cases require factual knowledge and nuanced reasoning. Existing medical QA systems, typically based on single-agent architectures and static retrieval, often lack adaptability, persistent memory, and structured decision-making. This work introduces an adaptive memory and reflection (AMR) agentic system, a multi-agent framework in which specialized agents use dedicated memory and reflection-based fe},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19029},
keywords = {cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.MA},
eprint = {2608.19029},
archiveprefix = {arXiv},
}
{}