VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Amir Pour
dblp:439/4015
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Knowledge representation and reasoning · 50% Language models and text generation · 50% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
theory of mind |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | On Emergent Social World Models - Evidence for Functional Integration of Theory of Mind and Pragmatic Reasoning in Language Models · ACL (1) 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
functional localization · 1.0causal-mechanistic analysis · 1.0behavioral evaluation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | On Emergent Social World Models - Evidence for Functional Integration of Theory of Mind and Pragmatic Reasoning in Language ModelsabstractThis paper investigates whether LMs recruit shared computational mechanisms for general Theory of Mind (ToM) and language-specific pragmatic reasoning in order to contribute to the general question of whether LMs may be said to have emergent "social world models," i.e., representations of mental states that are repurposed across tasks (the functional integration hypothesis).Using behavioral evaluations and causal-mechanistic experiments via functional localization methods inspired by cognitive neuroscience, we analyze LMs' performance across seven subcategories of ToM abilities (Beaudoin et al., 2020) on a substantially larger localizer dataset than used in prior like-minded work.Results from stringent hypothesis-driven statistical testing offer suggestive evidence for the functional integration hypothesis, indicating that LMs may develop interconnected "social world models" rather than isolated competencies.This work contributes novel ToM localizer data, methodological refinements to functional localization techniques, and empirical insights into the emergence of social cognition in artificial systems. Polina Tsvilodub, Jan-Felix Klumpp, Amir Pour, Jennifer Hu 0001, Michael Franke |
ACL (1) | 3 |