From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models

Xinyang Li^*, Siqi Liu^*, Bochao Zou^†, Jiansheng Chen, Huimin Ma^†

University of Science and Technology Beijing
*Indicates Equal Contribution,†Indicates Corresponding Author

## 🏆 Overview This repository provides the code for the paper [ICML 2025] "From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models"

## ⚙️ Installation ``` conda create -n gridtom python=3.12 conda activate gridtom # Please install PyTorch according to your CUDA version. conda install pytorch torchvision torchaudio pytorch-cuda=12.1 -c pytorch -c nvidia pip install -r requirements.txt ``` ## ⚡️ Quick Start ``` chmod 700 *.sh ./init_belief.sh LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B-hf ./init_belief.sh Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct ./evaluate.sh LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B-hf ./evaluate.sh Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct ./save_states.sh LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B-hf ./save_states.sh Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct ./interv_evaluate.sh LLaVA-NeXT-Video-7B-hf ./interv_evaluate.sh Qwen2-VL-7B-Instruct ``` ## 🔎 Citation Please cite the paper and star this repo if you find it interesting/useful, thanks! ```bibtex @article{li2025black, title={From Black Boxes to Transparent Minds: Evaluating and Enhancing the Theory of Mind in Multimodal Large Language Models}, author={Li, Xinyang and Liu, Siqi and Zou, Bochao and Chen, Jiansheng and Ma, Huimin}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.14224}, year={2025} } ``` ## 🌟 Star History