Meta-cognitive agents via fusion of cognitive architectures and LLMs

Fuse cognitive architectures such as ACT-R, Soar, or Sigma with large language models to develop meta-cognitive agents capable of self-monitoring, evaluation, and adaptive adjustment of reasoning and learning.

Background

The review describes proposals to augment cognitive architectures with LLMs for embodied agents and general intelligence. The authors explicitly mark as open the development of meta-cognitive agents through such fusion.

References

Open research questions remain around how Neuro-Symbolic AI can integrate symbolic reasoning with meta-reinforcement learning for complex decision-making, fuse cognitive architectures with LLMs to develop meta-cognitive agents, leverage LLMs to enhance instance-based learning through meta-cognitive signals, create adaptive meta-cognitive frameworks for real-time conflict resolution, combine modular and agency approaches to build meta-cognitive AI systems aligned with the Common Model of Cognition, improve few-shot learning with cognitive architectures for meta-cognitive awareness, and develop Neuro-Symbolic generative networks that replicate human-like meta-cognitive processes.

Neuro-Symbolic AI in 2024: A Systematic Review (2501.05435 - Colelough et al., 9 Jan 2025) in Section 4.6 Meta-Cognition