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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning

As of 18 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 24 of 24 outbound references and 1 inbound Pith citation observation for arXiv:2507.15788.

A citation records a reference. It does not transfer a finding from one paper to another.

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Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-06-27T17:42:38.122144Z

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Source: arxiv_reference, observed 2026-07-02T23:57:28.219193Z

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

Reference 1

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This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 2

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Observation 1036b7b4-9e7c-4dc5-911d-4c16ed9ec821 · outbound

This paper cites Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models

Reference 3

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This paper cites REINFORCE++: Stabilizing Critic-Free Policy Optimization with Global Advantage Normalization.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning REINFORCE++: Stabilizing Critic-Free Policy Optimization with Global Advantage Normalization

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Observation 1e1dbb0e-a190-4d4b-b6bb-4a1d5eb046ee · outbound

This paper cites Evaluating Large Language Models in Theory of Mind Tasks.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Evaluating Large Language Models in Theory of Mind Tasks

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This paper cites Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

Reference 7

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Observation 007e2f8e-39e2-475c-8829-2f9866b79efa · outbound

This paper cites Do Theory of Mind Benchmarks Need Explicit Human-like Reasoning in Language Models?.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Do Theory of Mind Benchmarks Need Explicit Human-like Reasoning in Language Models?

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Observation cc647f6b-0f7c-41b7-bbc8-412662dd788c · outbound

This paper cites Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback

Reference 10

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Observation e34b3763-d21e-407d-bba4-35096ec82087 · outbound

This paper cites Decompose-ToM: Enhancing Theory of Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models through Simulation and Task Decomposition.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Decompose-ToM: Enhancing Theory of Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models through Simulation and Task Decomposition

Reference 13

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Explore Theory of Mind: Program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Explore Theory of Mind: Program-guided adversarial data generation for theory of mind reasoning

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Clever Hans or Neural Theory of Mind? Stress Testing Social Reasoning in Large Language Models

Reference 17

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This paper cites Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks

Reference 18

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Logic-RL: Unleashing LLM Reasoning with Rule-Based Reinforcement Learning.

Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Logic-RL: Unleashing LLM Reasoning with Rule-Based Reinforcement Learning

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning Unresolved cited work

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning online" 'onlinestring :=

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Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning write newline

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Pith citing papers

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From Shortcuts to Reasoning: Robust Post-Training of Theory of Mind with Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

From Shortcuts to Reasoning: Robust Post-Training of Theory of Mind with Reinforcement Learning Small LLMs Do Not Learn a Generalizable Theory of Mind via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 67

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