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Zhining Zhang

5 accepted papers

2026

MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

ICML 2026poster

Effective real-world assistance requires AI agents with robust Theory of Mind (ToM): inferring human mental states from their behavior. Despite recent advances, several key challenges remain, including (1) online inference with robust uncertainty updates over multiple hypotheses; (2) efficient reaso…

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2025

AutoToM: Scaling Model-based Mental Inference via Automated Agent Modeling

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Theory of Mind (ToM), the ability to understand people's minds based on their behavior, is key to developing socially intelligent agents. Current approaches to ToM reasoning either rely on prompting Large Language Models (LLMs), which are prone to systematic errors, or use handcrafted, rigid agent m…

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2025

Embodied Representation Alignment with Mirror Neurons

ICCV 2025poster

Mirror neurons are a class of neurons that activate both when an individual observes an action and when they perform the same action. This mechanism reveals a fundamental interplay between action understanding and embodied execution, suggesting that these two abilities are inherently connected. None…

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