A 10-year-old CNN beats frontier LLMs at skin cancer diagnosis
sungam · hn · 2026-10-26
The Lynch Lab published a comparison showing that a decade-old classical CNN outperforms today's frontier LLMs on skin cancer diagnosis. A pointed reminder that purpose-trained small models can still beat general-purpose LLMs on specialized medical imaging tasks.
More from Models
- OpenAI enterprise price cuts spark debate as users cite quota frustration and churn — teortaxesTex · 2026-10-26
- How MoEdernColBERT stays tiny: 2-of-8 experts plus hash embeddings — tomaarsen · 2026-10-26
- Why tiny encoders hold up: multi-vector retrieval trades storage for quality — tomaarsen · 2026-10-26
- How to run MoEdernColBERT with Sentence Transformers MultiVectorEncoder — tomaarsen · 2026-10-26
- VAGOsolutions releases MoE retrievers as small as 1.5M parameters, Apache 2.0 — tomaarsen · 2026-10-26
- Claude Max user reports weekly limits appear to have been at least halved — msedek · 2026-10-26