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MedProb: Probing Internal Representations of Vision-Language Models for Medical Question Answering

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 3, 2026 · UTC

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is often assumed to require medical fine-tuning, large models, or complex multi-agent pipelines. We revisit this assumption with \textbf{MedProb}, a lightweight probing framework that predicts multiple-choice Med-VQA answers from frozen VLM representations without free-text generation. Across PATH-VQA, SLAKE, and VQA-RAD, MedProb recovers substantially more answer-relevant signal than prompting and performs stronger than medical VLMs and agentic systems. Probing also reduces the apparent gap between small and large models compared to prompting, sugge

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