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Language-Informed Synthesis of Rational Agent Models for Grounded Theory-of-Mind Reasoning On-The-Fly
Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Katherine M. Collins +6
Drawing real world social inferences usually requires taking into account information from multiple modalities. Language is a particularly powerful source of information in social…
Belief Attribution as Mental Explanation: The Role of Accuracy, Informativity, and Causality
Lance Ying, Almog Hillel, Ryan Truong +3
A key feature of human theory-of-mind is the ability to attribute beliefs to other agents as mentalistic explanations for their behavior. But given the wide variety of beliefs that…
Understanding Epistemic Language with a Language-augmented Bayesian Theory of Mind
Lance Ying, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Lionel Wong +2
How do people understand and evaluate claims about others' beliefs, even though these beliefs cannot be directly observed? In this paper, we introduce a cognitive model of epistemi…
Dissociating language and thought in large language models
Kyle Mahowald, Anna A. Ivanova, Idan A. Blank +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) have come closest among all models to date to mastering human language, yet opinions about their linguistic and cognitive capabilities remain split. He…