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LLMs improve Theory-of-Mind reasoning with explicit if-then rules · 1 source tracked

Researchers have developed a method to improve Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning in large language models by generating explicit if-then rules that connect perception, belief, and action. Using Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), they trained models like Qwen2.5 and Llama 3 on ToM benchmarks, finding that this rule-based approach surpasses other methods such as prompting and supervised fine-tuning. Furthermore, rules generated by larger models demonstrated transferable knowledge, enhancing the performance of smaller models like GPT-4o mini. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to LLMs that better understand and predict human behavior, improving applications in areas like human-robot interaction and personalized AI assistants.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for improving LLM reasoning capabilities. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Soyoung Oh, Nursulu Sagimbayeva, Nicholas Jennings, Paulina Hussein, Mehwish Alam, Vera Demberg ·

    Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

    arXiv:2610.19796v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In Theory-of-Mind (ToM) reasoning, large language models may correctly infer the agent's mental state but fail to use that inference when predicting or judging the agent's subsequent actions. In this work, we investigate whether e…