Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical
Problem Solving
Metacognitive Capabilities of LLMs: An Exploration in Mathematical
Problem Solving
Metacognitive knowledge refers to humans' intuitive knowledge of their own thinking and reasoning processes. Today's best LLMs clearly possess some reasoning processes. The paper gives evidence that they also have metacognitive knowledge, including ability to name skills and procedures to apply given a task. We explore this primarily in context …