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Confidence Freeze: Early Success Induces a Metastable Decoupling of Metacognition and Behaviour

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Main Authors:	Zhang, Zhipeng, He, Hongshun
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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