Samuel Recht
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Samuel Recht
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Cognitive scientist @ Oxford. Studying attention, metacognition and curiosity / learning.
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like a metacognitive evaluation? in my understanding metacog is at best weird, but more likely just not even present in most if not all LLMs. they don't do anything like "decide when more context is needed" anything like we do.

not an LLM expert but i do know abt metacog!

arxiv.org/abs/2504.14045
Metacognition and Uncertainty Communication in Humans and Large Language Models
Metacognition, the capacity to monitor and evaluate one's own knowledge and performance, is foundational to human decision-making, learning, and communication. As large language models (LLMs) become i...
arxiv.org
June 10, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Thanks a lot, Marlene! 🙂
January 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM