MuSeToM：跨六种感官文本线索的心智理论信念修正评测基准

Authors:Chunkit Chan, Kawai Chung, Sze Heng Douglas Kwok, Yuxuan Liu, Yauwai Yim, Tianshi Zheng, Haochen Shi, Qing Zong, Wong Kai Chung, Pak Hin Lau, Calvin Yang, Yifan Gao, Xiaoman Pan, Ginny Wong, Simon See, Yangqiu Song

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Abstract:Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to infer mental states in others, is pivotal for human social cognition. Existing evaluations of ToM in large language models (LLMs) mainly focus on static belief attribution and false-belief reasoning, leaving a critical aspect of social reasoning underexplored: can LLMs decide whether perceptual evidence is sufficient to justify another person's belief revision? To address this gap, we present MuSeToM, a human-validated, text-based benchmark for evaluating epistemic belief revision in ToM reasoning. MuSeToM contains 2,415 instances adapted from BigToM and OpenToM, with textual cues spanning six sensory categories, and tests whether models can determine when a protagonist should revise a belief and infer the resulting updated belief state. Using MuSeToM, we systematically evaluate state-of-the-art LLMs under direct and chain-of-thought prompting, revealing a pronounced dissonance: while models often detect that a belief may change, they struggle to identify the updated belief and frequently over-update on perceptually salient but epistemically insufficient cues.

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From: Chunkit Chan [view email]
[v1] Thu, 12 Nov 2026 11:38:52 UTC (8,533 KB)