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Intelligent autonomous agents hold much potential for the domain of cyber-security. However, due to many state-of-the-art approaches relying on uninterpretable black-box models, there is growing demand for methods that offer stakeholders…

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How can agents learn internal models that veridically represent interactions with the real world is a largely open question. As machine learning is moving towards representations containing not just observational but also interventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Hamza Keurti , Hsiao-Ru Pan , Michel Besserve , Benjamin F. Grewe , Bernhard Schölkopf

Existing dynamic Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmarks mostly place language models in a passive role: the model reads a sequence of connected scenarios and reports what people believe, feel, intend, and do as these states change. In real social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Zhichao Liang , Satoshi Nakamura

Social learning is widely observed in many species. Less experienced agents copy successful behaviors, exhibited by more experienced individuals. Nevertheless, the dynamical mechanisms behind this process remain largely unknown. Here we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-02-08 Carlos Calvo Tapia , Ivan Y. Tyukin , Valeriy A. Makarov Slizneva

While recent studies explore Large Language Models' (LLMs) performance on Theory of Mind (ToM) reasoning tasks, research on ToM abilities that require more nuanced social context is limited, such as white lies. We introduce TactfulToM, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yiwei Liu , Emma Jane Pretty , Jiahao Huang , Saku Sugawara

Large Language models are revolutionizing the conversational recommender systems through their impressive capabilities in instruction comprehension, reasoning, and human interaction. A core factor underlying effective recommendation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Mengfan Li , Xuanhua Shi , Yang Deng

Human motion and behaviour in crowded spaces is influenced by several factors, such as the dynamics of other moving agents in the scene, as well as the static elements that might be perceived as points of attraction or obstacles. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Federico Bartoli , Giuseppe Lisanti , Lamberto Ballan , Alberto Del Bimbo

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is the study of multi-agent interactions in a shared environment. Communication for cooperation is a fundamental construct for sharing information in partially observable environments. Cooperative Multi-Agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Nancirose Piazza , Vahid Behzadan

As large language models evolve, there is growing anticipation that they will emulate human-like Theory of Mind (ToM) to assist with routine tasks. However, existing methods for evaluating machine ToM focus primarily on unimodal models and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Xinyang Li , Siqi Liu , Bochao Zou , Jiansheng Chen , Huimin Ma

The ability of humans and animals to quickly adapt to novel tasks is difficult to reconcile with the standard paradigm of learning by slow synaptic weight modification. Here we show that fixed-weight neural networks can learn to generate…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-26 Christian Klos , Yaroslav Felipe Kalle Kossio , Sven Goedeke , Aditya Gilra , Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer

While humans naturally develop theory of mind (ToM), the capability to understand other people's mental states and beliefs, state-of-the-art large language models (LLMs) underperform on simple ToM benchmarks. We posit that we can extend our…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Chani Jung , Dongkwan Kim , Jiho Jin , Jiseon Kim , Yeon Seonwoo , Yejin Choi , Alice Oh , Hyunwoo Kim

Although artificial intelligence (AI) has become deeply integrated into various stages of the research workflow and achieved remarkable advancements, academic rebuttal remains a significant and underexplored challenge. This is because…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Zhitao He , Zongwei Lyu , Yi R Fung

Theory of mind (ToM) enables AI systems to infer agents' hidden goals and mental states, but existing approaches focus mainly on small human understandable gridworld spaces. We introduce HiVAE, a hierarchical variational architecture that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Nigel Doering , Rahath Malladi , Arshia Sangwan , David Danks , Tauhidur Rahman

Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance across natural language reasoning tasks, yet their reasoning processes remain brittle and difficult to interpret. Prompting techniques like Chain-of-Thought (CoT) enhance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Samir Abdaljalil , Hasan Kurban , Khalid Qaraqe , Erchin Serpedin

Datasets used for emotion recognition tasks typically contain overt cues that can be used in predicting the emotions expressed in a text. However, one challenge is that texts sometimes contain covert contextual cues that are rich in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Gerard Christopher Yeo , Kokil Jaidka

The trajectory prediction is significant for the decision-making of autonomous driving vehicles. In this paper, we propose a model to predict the trajectories of target agents around an autonomous vehicle. The main idea of our method is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Zhixiong Nan , He Zhang , Shitao Chen , Nanning Zheng

Much of model-based reinforcement learning involves learning a model of an agent's world, and training an agent to leverage this model to perform a task more efficiently. While these models are demonstrably useful for agents, every…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-11-01 C. Daniel Freeman , Luke Metz , David Ha

Value learning is a crucial aspect of safe and ethical AI. This is primarily pursued by methods inferring human values from behaviour. However, humans care about much more than we are able to demonstrate through our actions. Consequently,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Paul de Font-Reaulx

Intuitive psychology is a pillar of common-sense reasoning. The replication of this reasoning in machine intelligence is an important stepping-stone on the way to human-like artificial intelligence. Several recent tasks and benchmarks for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Tomer Ullman

We introduce Masked Trajectory Models (MTM) as a generic abstraction for sequential decision making. MTM takes a trajectory, such as a state-action sequence, and aims to reconstruct the trajectory conditioned on random subsets of the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Philipp Wu , Arjun Majumdar , Kevin Stone , Yixin Lin , Igor Mordatch , Pieter Abbeel , Aravind Rajeswaran