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most citedLanguage Models Represent Beliefs of Self and Others

1 citations · 1 across the 3 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CV2026

RL Teaches VLMs Where to Attend but Not How to Perceive

Ziqian Zhang, Junjie Liao, Zhining Zhang +1

Although reinforcement learning (RL) effectively trains Vision-Language Model (VLM) agents, the mechanisms behind these capability gains are poorly understood. Across four diverse…

cs.AI2026

MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

Shunchi Zhang, Jin Lu, Chuanyang Jin +3

Effective real-world assistance requires AI agents with robust Theory of Mind (ToM): inferring human mental states from their behavior. Despite recent advances, several key challen…

cs.CL2026

Neural Synchrony Between Socially Interacting Language Models

Zhining Zhang, Wentao Zhu, Chi Han +2

Neuroscience has uncovered a fundamental mechanism of our social nature: human brain activity becomes synchronized with others in many social contexts involving interaction. Tradit…

cs.AI2025

Embodied Representation Alignment with Mirror Neurons

Wentao Zhu, Zhining Zhang, Yuwei Ren +3

Mirror neurons are a class of neurons that activate both when an individual observes an action and when they perform the same action. This mechanism reveals a fundamental interplay…

cs.AI2025

AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling

Zhining Zhang, Chuanyang Jin, Mung Yao Jia +2

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to understand people's minds based on their behavior, is key to developing socially intelligent agents. Current approaches to ToM reasoning either…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Language Models Represent Beliefs of Self and Others

Wentao Zhu, Zhining Zhang, Yizhou Wang

Understanding and attributing mental states, known as Theory of Mind (ToM), emerges as a fundamental capability for human social reasoning. While Large Language Models (LLMs) appea…