resource · 2023
BenCao (formerly HuaTuo)
arXiv
BenCao (formerly HuaTuo) is a resource in the TCM LLM catalog (Awesome-TCM-LLM), dated 2023. It is maintained alongside the GitHub list of Traditional Chinese Medicine large language models.
BenCao, first called HuaTuo, is an instruction-tuned medical model from HIT SCIR, trained with Chinese medical knowledge. The 2023 paper is HuaTuo. The same group later published a knowledge-tuning paper in ACM TKDD in February 2025.