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  1. GroupToM-Bench: Benchmarking Group Theory of Mind and Nonlinear Social Emergence in MLLMs

    Jun 2, 2026Weidong Tang, Jierui Li, Yueling Hou +7Theory of MindMultimodal Model Evaluation

    1Xidian University · 2National University of Singapore · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China +1

  2. A formal definition and meta-model for a machine theory of mind

    Jun 2, 2026Fabio CuzzolinTheory of Mind

    Institure for AI, Data Analysis and Systems (AIDAS) School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics Oxford Brookes University

  3. MindClaw: Closed-Loop Embodied Mental-State Reasoning for Precision Intervention

    May 31, 2026Ruoxuan Zhang, Qiaoqiao Wan, Zhengguang Wang +4Theory of MindAssistive Robotics

    Jilin University · Microsoft Asia · National Taiwan University

  4. MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

    May 29, 2026Shunchi Zhang, Jin Lu, Chuanyang Jin +3Self-Supervised LearningTheory of Mind

    Johns Hopkins University · Peking University

  5. Dreaming Of Others: Latent Teammate Modeling In World Models For Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 29, 2026Tomas Leroy-StoneMulti-Agent CoordinationTheory of Mind

  6. UserHarness: Harnessing User Minds for Stronger Agent Theory-of-Mind

    May 26, 2026Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Heng JiTheory of MindLLM Agent Evaluation

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  7. OmniToM: Benchmarking Theory of Mind in LLMs via Explicit Belief Modeling

    May 25, 2026Adam Bawatneh, Sagar Sapkota, Amrit Singh Bedi +2LLM EvaluationTheory of Mind

    University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

  8. Think Thrice Before You Speak: Dual knowledge-enhanced Theory-of-Mind Reasoning for Persuasive Agents

    May 21, 2026Minghui Ma, Bin Guo, Runze Yang +7Theory of MindConversational Agents

    Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China · Peking University, Beijing, China · Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China

  9. OSCToM: RL-Guided Adversarial Generation for High-Order Theory of Mind

    May 19, 2026Sharmin Sultana Srishty, Kazi Mahathir Rahman, Malaika Parizat Sakkhi +2Cognitive ModelingTheory of Mind

    Department of Computer Science BRAC University

  10. Beyond the Cartesian Illusion: Testing Two-Stage Multi-Modal Theory of Mind under Perceptual Bottlenecks

    May 18, 2026Yajing Zhou, Xiangyu KongAudio-Visual UnderstandingVisual Spatial Reasoning

    College of Computer Science, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, No.55 Taihang Road, Changping District, Beijing, 102206, China

  11. What Do You Think I Think? Accounting for Human Beliefs Using Second-Order Theory of Mind

    May 12, 2026Patrick Callaghan, Reid Simmons, Henny AdmoniTheory of Mind

    Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

  12. EnactToM: An Evolving Benchmark for Functional Theory of Mind in Embodied Agents

    May 11, 2026Gurusha Juneja, Dylan Lu, Saaket Agashe +7Multi-Agent CoordinationTheory of Mind

    University of California, Santa Barbara · 2King’s College London · 3Cisco Research

  13. MOTOR-Bench: A Real-world Dataset and Multi-agent Framework for Zero-shot Human Mental State Understanding

    May 10, 2026Xiaoyu Yuan, Niklas Heikkala, Tiina Törmänen +3Theory of MindAI Agent Benchmarks

    University of Oulu

  14. Evaluating Generative Models as Interactive Emergent Representations of Human-Like Collaborative Behavior

    May 5, 2026Shinas Shaji, Teena Chakkalayil Hassan, Sebastian Houben +1Multi-Agent LLM SystemsTheory of Mind

    Institute of AI and Autonomous Systems (A2S), Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Grantham-Allee 20, Sankt Augustin, 53757, Germany. · 3Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information SystemsMay (IAIS), Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, 53757, Germany. · 2Division for Systems and Control, Chalmers University of Technology, Chalmersplatsen 1, Gothenburg, 41296, Sweden.

  15. SOTOPIA-TOM: Evaluating Privacy and Information Management in Multi-Agent Interaction with Theory of Mind

    May 4, 2026Yashwanth YS, Ruichen Wang, Shihua Zeng +4Multi-Agent CoordinationTheory of Mind

    Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA · Fujitsu Research of America, Pittsburgh, USA

  16. Does Theory of Mind Improvement Really Benefit Human-AI Interactions? Empirical Findings from Interactive Evaluations

    Apr 28, 2026Nanxu Gong, Zixin Chen, Haotian Li +5LLM EvaluationTheory of Mind

    Arizona State University · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Microsoft Research Asia +1

  17. StoryTR: Narrative-Centric Video Temporal Retrieval with Theory of Mind Reasoning

    Apr 25, 2026Xuanyue Zhong, Yuqiang Xie, Guanqun Bi +2Temporal Video GroundingVideo Understanding

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · SkyReels, Skywork AI · Independent Researcher

  18. Don't Make the LLM Read the Graph: Make the Graph Think

    Apr 24, 2026Yuqi Sun, Tianqin Meng, George Liu +4Multi-Agent CoordinationGame-Playing Agents

    Mindoverflow · University of Waterloo · Carnegie Mellon University +4

  19. DialToM: A Theory of Mind Benchmark for Forecasting State-Driven Dialogue Trajectories

    Apr 22, 2026Neemesh Yadav, Palakorn Achananuparp, Jing Jiang +1LLM EvaluationTheory of Mind

    Singapore Management University · Australian National University

  20. PDDL-Mind: Large Language Models are Capable on Belief Reasoning with Reliable State Tracking

    Apr 20, 2026Wang Bill Zhu, Qiutong Tony Yi, Robin Jia +1Theory of MindNeuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    University of Southern California

  21. Learning Dynamic Belief Graphs for Theory-of-mind Reasoning

    Mar 20, 2026Ruxiao Chen, Xilei Zhao, Thomas J. Cova +2Computational Cognitive ModelingLLM Reasoning with Graphs

    Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA · Civil and Coastal Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA · School of the Environment, Society & Sustainability, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA +1

  22. CoMMET: A Psychologically Grounded Benchmark for Evaluating Theory of Mind in Multimodal LLMs

    Mar 12, 2026Ruirui Chen, Weifeng Jiang, Chengwei Qin +3Moral Reasoning in Language ModelsTheory of Mind

    Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) and 2Centre for Frontier AI Research (CFAR), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  23. LLMs and their Limited Theory of Mind: Evaluating Mental State Annotations in Situated Dialogue

    Sep 2, 2025Katharine Kowalyshyn, Matthias ScheutzLLM EvaluationTheory of Mind

    Department of Computer Science Tufts University