AI RESEARCH
Infusing Theory of Mind into Socially Intelligent LLM Agents
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2509.22887v2 Announce Type: replace Theory of Mind (ToM)-an understanding of the mental states of others-is a key aspect of human social intelligence, yet, chatbots and LLM-based social agents do not typically integrate it. In this work, we nstrate that LLMs that explicitly use ToM get better at dialogue, achieving goals effectively. After showing that simply prompting models to generate mental states between dialogue turns already provides significant benefit, we further