Reinforcement Learning with Metacognitive Feedback Elicits Faithful Uncertainty Expression in LLMs

arXiv:2606.32032 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-30 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-30

Updated: 2026-10-12

Terminology

• Metacognition — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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