MedBayes-Lite: Teaching Medical AI to know when it's unsure

Kari Jaaskelainen

21 Nov 2025 — 1 min read

Medical AI is powerful, but it can sound more certain than it should. MedBayes-Lite is a lightweight add-on that helps transformer models say "I'm unsure" when cases are ambiguous, with no retraining and under 3% extra parameters.

Calibrated embeddings: Monte Carlo dropout captures what the model doesn’t know (epistemic uncertainty).
Uncertainty-weighted attention: Less reliable tokens influence the answer less.
Confidence-guided decisions: Risk-aware rules route uncertain cases to human review.

Across MedQA, PubMedQA, and MIMIC-III, the method improved calibration and trustworthiness, cutting overconfidence by 32–48%. In simulated clinical workflows, flagging low-confidence outputs could avert up to 41% of diagnostic errors by sending them to clinicians.

Why it matters: safer, more interpretable decision support that knows when to pause. Note: this is research, not a medical device, and is meant to assist—not replace—clinicians.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16625v1

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16625v1

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