Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficiency with Signal Detection Theory
Do LLMs Know What They Know? Measuring Metacognitive Efficiency with Signal Detection Theory explores A new evaluation framework using signal detection theory to measure LLM metacognitive efficiency, revealing which models truly know what they don't know.. Commercial viability score: 7/10 in LLM Evaluation.
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