arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-06-30
Reinforcement Learning with Metacognitive Feedback Elicits Faithful Uncertainty Expression in LLMs
Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu, Avi Caciularu, Gal Yona, Idan Szpektor, Arman Cohan
Metacognition is a critical component of intelligence that describes the ability to monitor and regulate one's own cognitive processes. Yet LLMs exhibit systemic deficiencies in key metacognitive faculties: they hallucinate with high confidence, fail to recognize knowledge bounda…