Mind the Perspective: Let's Reason Recursively for Theory of Mind

arXiv:2606.11724 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-10 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-10

Updated: 2026-09-26

Terminology

• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 21× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Theory of Mind — 16× in this paper
• Abstraction — 9× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Axioms — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Theory of Mind (ToM) — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Introspection — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-consistency — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmarking — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Information Asymmetry — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Temporal Belief State Chain — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Large Language Monkeys: Scaling Inference Compute with Repeated Sampling
• Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks

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