Papers by Cameron Robert Jones
Language Statistics and False Belief Reasoning: Evidence from 41 Open-Weight LMs (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | a recent study on mental state reasoning in language models relies on a relatively small sample of closed-source LMs. |
| Approach: | They replicate and extend published work on false belief task by assessing LM mental state reasoning behavior across 41 open-weight models. |
| Outcome: | The results show that large LMs show higher sensitivity and predictive power . they also show that humans and LM models show a bias towards attributing false beliefs . |