Papers by Zhonghao Shi
Can Large Language Models Infer Human Actions and Motives? Evaluation in Social Prediction and Inspection Games (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Game theory provides a framework for studying human behaviors through incentivized games that simulate social situations. |
| Approach: | They used two validated games from the cognitive science literature to study how well several recent open- and closed-source LLMs predict player actions with underlying human motives. |
| Outcome: | The results show that state-of-the-art LLMs can achieve accuracy close to human levels in predicting players’ actions with underlying human motives in SPGs, but failed to recognize statistical patterns in players’ action. |