% Key papers for Theory-of-mind social reasoning (scime atlas, https://atlas.scime.ai). Authors are not included: add them from the paper pages. @inproceedings{neurips2018_hybrid_57216, title = {{Hybrid Retrieval-Generation Reinforced Agent for Medical Image Report Generation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2018/poster/11168}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_learning_28376, title = {{Learning through Dialogue Interactions by Asking Questions}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rkE8pVcle}, } @inproceedings{aaai2016_instructable_105203, title = {{Instructable Intelligent Personal Agent}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2016}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/10357}, } @inproceedings{iclr2019_babyai_29146, title = {{BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2019/poster/733}, } @inproceedings{icml2018_machine_36838, title = {{Machine Theory of Mind}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2018}, url = {https://icml.cc/virtual/2018/poster/2159}, } @inproceedings{aaai2019_theory_102688, title = {{Theory of Minds: Understanding Behavior in Groups through Inverse Planning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/4574}, } @inproceedings{aaai2022_fusing_2137, title = {{Fusing Task-Oriented and Open-Domain Dialogues in Conversational Agents}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/11622-fusing-task-oriented-and-open-domain-dialogues-in-conversational-agents/}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_dialogue_28264, title = {{Dialogue Learning With Human-in-the-Loop}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=HJgXCV9xx}, } @inproceedings{iclr2021_watch_30740, title = {{Watch-And-Help: A Challenge for Social Perception and Human-AI Collaboration}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2021/poster/2798}, } @inproceedings{aaai2021_keyword_831, title = {{Keyword-Guided Neural Conversational Model}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/14568-keyword-guided-neural-conversational-model/}, } @inproceedings{aaai2022_valuenet_2934, title = {{ValueNet: A New Dataset for Human Value Driven Dialogue System}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/11183-valuenet-a-new-dataset-for-human-value-driven-dialogue-system/}, } @inproceedings{neurips2019_modeling_58615, title = {{Modeling Conceptual Understanding in Image Reference Games}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2019}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2019/poster/14617}, } @inproceedings{iclr2022_tom2c_30833, title = {{ToM2C: Target-oriented Multi-agent Communication and Cooperation with Theory of Mind}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2022}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2022/poster/6578}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2019_what_15029, title = {{What's to Know? Uncertainty as a Guide to Asking Goal-Oriented Questions}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2019}, } @inproceedings{iclr2017_learning_28355, title = {{Learning to Query, Reason, and Answer Questions On Ambiguous Texts}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2017}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rJ0-tY5xe}, } @inproceedings{aaai2023_help_3822, title = {{Help Me Heal: A Reinforced Polite and Empathetic Mental Health and Legal Counseling Dialogue System for Crime Victims}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26685}, } @inproceedings{neurips2021_baby_62295, title = {{Baby Intuitions Benchmark (BIB): Discerning the goals, preferences, and actions of others}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://nips.cc/virtual/2021/poster/27746}, } @inproceedings{aaai2021_more_1009, title = {{More the Merrier: Towards Multi-Emotion and Intensity Controllable Response Generation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2021}, url = {https://aaai.org/papers/12821-more-the-merrier-towards-multi-emotion-and-intensity-controllable-response-generation/}, } @inproceedings{aaai2023_learning_3990, title = {{Learning Affects Trust: Design Recommendations and Concepts for Teaching Children—and Nearly Anyone—about Conversational Agents}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2023}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26883}, } @inproceedings{cvpr2021_learning_17321, title = {{Learning Triadic Belief Dynamics in Nonverbal Communication From Videos}}, booktitle = {IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)}, year = {2021}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_cooper_5508, title = {{Cooper: Coordinating Specialized Agents towards a Complex Dialogue Goal}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/29739}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_muma_10001, title = {{MuMA-ToM: Multi-modal Multi-Agent Theory of Mind}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/32142}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_neural_6759, title = {{Neural Amortized Inference for Nested Multi-Agent Reasoning}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/27808}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_sotopia_35176, title = {{SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/17897}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_metamind_79615, title = {{MetaMind: Modeling Human Social Thoughts with Metacognitive Multi-Agent Systems}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=rGMaZkn1ve}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_does_8795, title = {{Does Your AI Agent Get You? A Personalizable Framework for Approximating Human Models from Argumentation-based Dialogue Traces}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/33578}, } @inproceedings{neurips2024_logicity_71739, title = {{LogiCity: Advancing Neuro-Symbolic AI with Abstract Urban Simulation}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://neurips.cc/virtual/2024/poster/97738}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_twinmarket_78672, title = {{TwinMarket: A Scalable Behavioral and Social Simulation for Financial Markets}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=h60y6zlPyl}, } @inproceedings{aaai2025_spasca_10627, title = {{SPASCA: Social Presence and Support with Conversational Agent for Persons Living with Dementia}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/35355}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_mindforge_79905, title = {{MindForge: Empowering Embodied Agents with Theory of Mind for Lifelong Cultural Learning}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=u7jtLj46i9}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_dimension_106370, title = {{Dimension-Aware Active Annotation for Aesthetic Perception via Multi-Agent Human–AI Collaboration}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/38677}, } @inproceedings{aaai2024_domain_5739, title = {{Domain Engineering to Represent Human Behavior Using Multi-Agent Planning and Inductive Methodologies}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/30391}, } @inproceedings{icml2026_the_53863, title = {{The Decrypto Benchmark for Multi-Agent Reasoning and Theory of Mind}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=jW0Vcidbbw}, } @inproceedings{neurips2025_plasticity_78418, title = {{Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment}}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)}, year = {2025}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=eOZFqyE9Ok}, } @inproceedings{iclr2026_language_86876, title = {{Language and Experience: A Computational Model of Social Learning in Complex Tasks}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=UxDu3RFuDV}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_freeaskworld_100010, title = {{FreeAskWorld: An Interactive and Closed-Loop Simulator for Human-Centric Embodied AI}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/37061}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_dynamic_108126, title = {{Dynamic Cognitive Planning for Cognitive-Functional Dialogue: A Case Study in Emotional Support Conversation}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40478}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_an_108533, title = {{An Epistemic Perspective on Agent Awareness}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/40885}, } @inproceedings{aaai2026_when_108824, title = {{When Proxy Agents Disagree, Do Humans Mirror? Manipulating Human Behavior in Moral Dilemmas Through Agents}}, booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/41176}, } @inproceedings{iclr2024_enhancing_34506, title = {{Enhancing Human-AI Collaboration Through Logic-Guided Reasoning}}, booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)}, year = {2024}, url = {https://iclr.cc/virtual/2024/poster/18568}, }