The paper proposes the ISE framework to evaluate LLM agents' epistemic humility under knowledge conflicts
Proposes the ISE framework to evaluate the epistemic humility of LLM agents under knowledge conflicts
- arXiv
- 2610.12360
- Published
- Layer
- Application layer
- Setting
- AI Agent
- Evaluated models
- Nemotron-Orchestrator-8B, Claude Sonnet 4.6, GPT-5 and others5
AbstractISE trajectory evaluations show that high task accuracy across four agents does not correspond to higher cognitive humility.
What the authors want to test is not whether the agent's final answer is correct, but whether, when a knowledge conflict arises, it recognizes the gap in its trajectory, performs bounded tool follow-up, and writes the unresolved uncertainty to the user.