2024/06/19 by Zhawnen Chen, Chen, Zhawnen, Tianchun Wang +11 · 3 citations
Computer Science · Health Professions · Social Sciences · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #Digital Storytelling and Education #Educational Tools and Methods #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Speech and dialogue systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.13763
openalex publication_date 2024/06/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Can large multimodal models have a human-like ability for emotional and social reasoning, and if so, how does it work? Recent research has discovered emergent theory-of-mind (ToM) reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs). LLMs can reason about people's mental states by solving various text-based ToM tasks that ask questions about the actors' ToM (e.g., human belief, desire, intention). However, human reasoning in the wild is often grounded in dynamic scenes across time. Thus, we consider videos a new medium for examining spatio-temporal ToM reasoning ability. Specifically, we ask explicit probing questions about videos with abundant social and emotional reasoning content. We develop a pipeline for multimodal LLM for ToM reasoning using video and text. We also enable explicit ToM reasoning by retrieving key frames for answering a ToM question, which reveals how multimodal LLMs reason about ToM.