Model and Task-Aware Test-Time Scaling Strategies for Large Language and Vision-Language Models in Medicine: Evaluation Study

Gyutaek Oh   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Seoyeon Kim   ³ ;   Sangjoon Park   ^{2, 4, 5, 6 *} , MD, PhD ;   Byung-Hoon Kim   ^{1, 2, 7, 8 *} , MD, PhD

¹ Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

² Yonsei Institute for Digital Health, Seoul, Republic of Korea

³ College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁴ Department of Radiation Oncology, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁵ Heavy Ion Therapy Research Institute, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁶ Yonsei Cancer Center, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

⁸ Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

*these authors contributed equally