Masked by Consensus: Disentangling Privileged Knowledge in LLM Correctness (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Recent research suggests large language models encode meta-information about their own outputs. |
| Approach: | They investigate whether large language models possess similar privileged knowledge about answer correctness . they train correctness classifiers on question representations from a model’s hidden states and external models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms peer-model models in factual knowledge tasks, but shows no advantage in math reasoning. |
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