Small open-source medical model learns to defer to doctors when uncertain

A developer trained a small open-source medical QA model to abstain when confidence is below 90%, deferring to a doctor instead. Errors in the model's independent answers dropped from 46 to 13.

2026-10-28 ~ 2026-10-28 · 2 related posts

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