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Study proposes MS-FBI to improve medical MLLM confidence calibration · arXiv paper

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A new study published on arXiv explores the confidence calibration of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in the context of medical Visual Question Answering (VQA). The research identifies a critical issue where MLLMs' expressed confidence often does not correlate with their actual accuracy, posing risks in healthcare settings. To address this, the study introduces a novel method called Multi-Strategy Fusion-Based Interrogation (MS-FBI), which combines interrogation techniques with expert LLM assessment. Experiments show that MS-FBI can reduce the Expected Calibration Error (ECE) by an average of 40%, thereby improving the reliability of MLLMs for AI-assisted diagnosis. AI

IMPACT Enhances the trustworthiness of MLLMs in critical healthcare applications, potentially leading to more reliable AI-assisted diagnosis.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuetian Du, Yucheng Wang, Ming Kong, Tian Liang, Qiang Long, Bingdi Chen, Qiang Zhu ·

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  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Qiang Zhu ·

    Confidence Calibration for Multimodal LLMs: An Empirical Study through Medical VQA

    Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) show great potential in medical tasks, but their elicited confidence often misaligns with actual accuracy, potentially leading to misdiagnosis or overlooking correct advice. This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of the relat…

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