Social Cognitive AI (SCAI) Lab

Research

Multimodal Theory of Mind Reasoning
Multimodal Theory of Mind Reasoning

Reasoning about people’s mental states based on their behaviors observed from multimodal inputs.
Automated ToM reasoning (NeurIPS 2025) (Spotlight)
Multimodal Multiagent ToM (AAAI 2025) (Oral)
Multimodal ToM QA (ACL 2024) (Outstanding Paper Award)

Multimodal Embodied Assistance
Multimodal Embodied Assistance

Assisting humans with physical actions and verbal communication in complex embodied settings.
Goal-Oriented Mental Alignment (IROS 2024)
Neurally-guided Online Probabilistic Assistance (ICRA 2023)
Watch-And-Help (ICLR 2021)

Learning from Human Feedback
Learning from Human Feedback

Learning human preferences from rich human feedback.
Reinforcement Learning from Human Interaction (RLHI) (arxiv preprint)
Pragmatic Feature Preferences (ICML 2024)
Graph-based Active Reward Learning (ICML 2022)

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SimWorld
SimWorld

A World Simulator for Scaling Photorealistic Multi-Agent Interactions

NeurIPS 2023 Tutorial on Language Models Meet World Models
NeurIPS 2023 Tutorial on Language Models Meet World Models

This tutorial aims to summarize and present a unified view of connecting WMs and LMs and highlight the various opportunities for improved machine reasoning and planning based on (or even beyond) large LMs through world modeling.

VirtualHome 2 (VirtualHome-Social)
VirtualHome 2 (VirtualHome-Social)

An open-sourced mulit-agent household embodied simulator.