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Mind the Ambiguity: Aleatoric Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs for Safe Medical Question Answering

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Main Authors:	Liu, Yaokun, Liu, Yifan, Mbuvi, Phoebe, Li, Zelin, Yao, Ruichen, Lim, Gawon, Wang, Dong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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