NegotiationToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind on Negotiation Surrounding
<|reference_start|>NegotiationToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind on Negotiation Surrounding: Large Language Models (LLMs) have sparked substantial interest and debate concerning their potential emergence of Theory of Mind (ToM) ability. Theory of mind evaluations currently focuses on testing models using machine-generated data or game settings prone to shortcuts and spurious correlations, which lacks evaluation of machine ToM ability in real-world human interaction scenarios. This poses a pressing demand to develop new real-world scenario benchmarks. We introduce NegotiationToM, a new benchmark designed to stress-test machine ToM in real-world negotiation surrounding covered multi-dimensional mental states (i.e., desires, beliefs, and intentions). Our benchmark builds upon the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) agent modeling theory and conducts the necessary empirical experiments to evaluate large language models. Our findings demonstrate that NegotiationToM is challenging for state-of-the-art LLMs, as they consistently perform significantly worse than humans, even when employing the chain-of-thought (CoT) method.<|reference_end|>
@article{chan2024negotiationtom:,
    title={NegotiationToM: A Benchmark for Stress-testing Machine Theory of Mind on
  Negotiation Surrounding},
    author={Chunkit Chan, Cheng Jiayang, Yauwai Yim, Zheye Deng, Wei Fan, Haoran
  Li, Xin Liu, Hongming Zhang, Weiqi Wang, Yangqiu Song},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.13627},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2404.13627},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}