H. Bernard

Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know II? A Fully Behavioral, Non-Cognitive Measure of Epistemic Honesty

This work introduces the Epistemic Honesty Quotient (EHQ), which reports three observable sub-scores across two operational axes (epistemic restraint and substantive-answer calibration), and constructs EHQ-3000, a 3,000-question benchmark spanning Fabricated Entity, Post-Cutoff Event, Hyper-Niche True, and Context-Cond...