@article{japanesechildrensriddlesasabenchmarkform, title = {The Metacognitive Bottleneck: Japanese Riddles Reveal Fundamental Limits of Machine Insight and Self-Evaluation in Reasoning AI}, author = {Masaharu Mizumoto and Dat Nguyen and Zhiheng Han and Jiyuan Fang and Heyuan Guan and Xingfu Li and Naoya Shiraishi and Yo Nakawake and Le Minh Nguyen}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2509.14704}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14704}, }