Neuro-symbolic reasoning in the consultation room

Clinical reasoning,
open to inspection.

Auscult.ai combines language understanding with structured diagnostic reasoning. Inspect competing diagnoses, the evidence used and what remains to be asked.

Presented by David Loiret — connect on LinkedIn.

From rare diseases to broader differentials.

Both studies build on the reasoning architecture presented in our poster: explicit knowledge, structured evidence and inspectable differentials, adapted through dedicated profiles and mappings. They support adaptability within diagnosis. Different cohorts and scoring paths mean the percentages are not directly comparable.

Rare diseases · poster study

5,349 published cases.

HPO phenotype findings, 10,793 disease concepts, ontology-based native reasoning. ReasoningLayer and LIRICAL used the same case corpus and annotation release.

63.5%ReasoningLayertop-1 accuracy
52.0%LIRICAL 2.4.1top-1 accuracy
+11.5percentage points · paired differenceReported 95% interval: ±1.17 points

Earlier frozen configuration; retrospective published cases. In 74% of cases, the gold diagnosis has ontology annotations citing the case’s own publication. This measures recognition with shared source knowledge; clinical validation remains necessary.

Explore rare-disease results, methods and source controls →
DDXPlus · October 2026

256 synthetic cases.

On 256 synthetic cases, Auscult’s ranking component and Gemini received the same findings and diagnosis names. The primary Gemini comparator also received the same numerical profiles and scoring formula.

88.3%Auscult curated ranker226 / 256
77.7%Gemini + numerical profiles199 / 256
+10.5percentage points · paired difference95% interval: 5.5–15.6 points

Top-1 accuracy on a fixed-evidence ranking task, using the recorded model google/gemini-3.7-flash. This does not test full interviews or isolate the native engine. Internal research on synthetic data; clinical validation is pending.

See all four arms, separate interview results and study limits →
Scientific presentations · 2026

Presented to the research community.

Nature Conference — Redefining Healthcare in the Age of AI

8–10 September 2026 · Paris. David Loiret presented the ReasoningLayer project at the conference, whose programme included sessions at the Sorbonne.

Official Nature Conference page ↗

NeuroSym4MLLM × EXPLAIN’AI

22 June 2026 · LIP6, Sorbonne Université, Paris. The official programme lists David Loiret’s presentation on structured, verifiable and actionable explanations with ReasoningLayer.

Official programme and presentation entry ↗

Conference participation is distinct from journal publication or endorsement. The original poster is accompanied by a current claim review and a correction to its June venue: LIP6, Sorbonne Université in Paris.

Explicit knowledge. Inspectable computation.

The October development revision strengthens evidence admission and source lineage. Targeted checks have passed; complete interviews through this revised stack and independent clinical validation remain ahead.

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A differential you can inspect

Language models structure observations. Native inference links hypotheses to matched and missing evidence; explicit application scoring produces the ranked differential.

02

Knowledge with source lineage

Ontology concepts give findings a shared vocabulary. Curated profiles now carry input locations, document digests and reference lists through inference. Numerical support in the cited publications remains to be verified.

03

Questions guided by gaps

Missing evidence and information-gain estimates guide follow-up questions. Explicit unknowns, conflict checks and abstention rules make the system’s limits visible. Clinical calibration is still needed.

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Configurable patient context

Patient context, knowledge profiles and question policies are explicit inputs that can be adjusted without retraining the language model. A clinical benefit from personalization has not yet been measured.

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Replay that can be checked

Recorded application scores were reconstructed for 18 artificial interview turns on an earlier build. This checks computation from captured state; it does not replay language extraction or the entire stack.

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Evidence boundaries tested

Targeted native and application checks cover evidence admission, conflicting observations and source transport. Passing those checks is engineering evidence, with full-stack and clinical evaluation still to come.

Earlier product demo · 2 min 55 An illustrative consultation showing the interface. This recording predates the October engineering updates.

Walk inside the diagnosis

Explore candidates and evidence in the historical browser model. An interactive illustration of the earlier research.

⬢ Enter the world
Inspect the evidence.
Challenge the assumptions.
The aim of explicit reasoning, applied to clinical research.