Clinical care changes every day. Can the AI agents supporting it change with it?
That question sits at the heart of self-evolving LLM agents in healthcare. These systems aim to do more than run a fixed workflow. They update memory, tools, prompts or coordination strategies based on experience, so future tasks benefit from what came before.
Promising as that sounds, the hard part is comparing these systems across papers. One system stores reflections for later use. Another revises its prompts. A third changes how multiple agents work together. Each reflects a different kind of adaptation, yet much of it still gets grouped under the same term.
To bring more clarity to that space, our work ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ: ๐ ๐๐ข๐ฑ-๐๐ข๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐๐ฑ๐จ๐ง๐จ๐ฆ๐ฒ ๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ฅ๐-๐๐ฏ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐จ๐ซ ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ญ๐ก๐๐๐ซ๐ introduces a structured framework that organizes self-evolution across six dimensions: Tools, Memory, Context, Policy, Multi-Agent Coordination and Reasoning. Each dimension includes decision trees with graded levels, from static behavior to deeper persistent change. That makes it easier to see not just whether a system adapts but where and how strongly.
We applied this framework to 18 representative healthcare agent papers. Most systems show some form of adaptation but it tends to concentrate in memory rather than deeper changes to tools, policy or reasoning. Memory evolution appeared most often. Prompt self-revision showed up in roughly a third of systems. Tool-selection evolution and learned coordination remained uncommon. Formal policy optimization and reasoning-mechanism evolution did not appear in the reviewed set.
The takeaway is not that the field lacks ambition, but that most adaptation today still lives in a narrow slice of what self-evolution could mean. We hope this taxonomy helps researchers and practitioners compare systems more clearly and build adaptive clinical AI with greater rigor.
Read the paper here:
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