The Metacognitive Probe: Five Behavioural Calibration Diagnostics for LLMs

arXiv:2605.09844v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Metacognitive Probe is an exploratory five-task, 15-slot diagnostic that decomposes an LLM's confidence behaviour into five behaviourally-distinct dimensions: confidence calibration (T1-CC), epistemic vigilance (T2-EV), knowledge boundary (T3-KB),...