Selective Deficits in LLM Mental Self-Modeling in a Behavior-Based Test of Theory of Mind

arXiv:2603.26089 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2026-03-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-03-27

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Trace — 14× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Theory of Mind — 13× in this paper
• Reasoning Traces — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Cognitive Load — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Metacognition — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• AI Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Theory of Mind (ToM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Re-evaluating Theory of Mind evaluation in large language models
• Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks

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