Summary of Through the Theory Of Mind’s Eye: Reading Minds with Multimodal Video Large Language Models, by Zhawnen Chen et al.
Through the Theory of Mind’s Eye: Reading Minds with Multimodal Video Large Language Models
by Zhawnen Chen, Tianchun Wang, Yizhou Wang, Michal Kosinski, Xiang Zhang, Yun Fu, Sheng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper explores the ability of large multimodal models to exhibit human-like emotional and social reasoning abilities. Recent studies have shown that these models can demonstrate theory-of-mind (ToM) reasoning capabilities by solving text-based tasks that involve inferring people’s mental states. However, human reasoning in real-world scenarios is often grounded in dynamic scenes across time, which motivates the use of videos as a new medium for examining spatio-temporal ToM reasoning abilities. The authors develop a pipeline for multimodal language models to reason about ToM using video and text inputs, and show how these models can retrieve key frames to answer ToM questions, providing insights into their reasoning processes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Can machines really understand human emotions? Researchers are trying to teach large language models to be more social and emotional. They’ve already shown that these models can figure out what people are thinking and feeling by reading text. But humans don’t just think in words – we also read people’s faces, body language, and actions. So the researchers decided to test their models on videos, where they had to answer questions about characters’ emotions and motivations. They created a special way for the models to process both video and text information, and it worked! The models can now pick out important moments from a video that help them understand what’s going on. |
