{
  "id": 7126,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16264v1",
  "title": "Adaptive Theory of Mind for LLM-based Multi-Agent Coordination",
  "summary": "Theory of Mind (ToM) refers to the ability to reason about others' mental states, and higher-order ToM involves considering that others also possess their own ToM. Equipping large language model (LLM)-driven agents with ToM has long been considered to improve their coordination in multiagent collaborative tasks. However, we find that misaligned ToM orders-mismatches in the depth of ToM reasoning between agents-can lead to insufficient or excessive reasoning about others, thereby impairing their ",
  "authors": "Chunjiang Mu, Ya Zeng, Qiaosheng Zhang, Kun Shao, Chen Chu, Hao Guo et al.",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "safety-alignment,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-03-17T08:52:57.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:32:59.166Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/7126",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.16264v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}