让对话模型更懂人心,提升说服力的推理能力
Think Thrice Before You Speak: Dual knowledge-enhanced Theory-of-Mind Reasoning for Persuasive Agents

- 基于信念-欲望-意图框架,分步推理心理状态
- 在预测欲望、信念和策略上优于GPT-5,最高提升22.8%
- 适合研究对话智能、情感计算与人机交互的学者
说服性对话需要推理对方潜在心理状态,这被称为心智理论(ToM)。然而,现有大模型依赖简单提示策略且缺乏充分的ToM知识,难以捕捉心理状态间的内在依赖,导致表征碎片化与推理不稳定。为此,我们提出基于心智理论的说服性对话(ToM-PD)任务,基于信念-欲望-意图(BDI)框架,显式建模多轮对话中心理状态的时序依赖关系。为促进研究,我们构建了大规模标注数据集ToM-BPD,捕捉细粒度心理状态与对应说服策略。进一步提出Think Thrice Before You Speak(TTBYS)框架,通过融合显式与隐式先验经验,增强大模型对欲望、信念及说服策略的推理能力。实验表明,Qwen3-8B搭配TTBYS在预测欲望、信念和说服策略上分别优于GPT-5 1.20%、22.80%和16.97%。案例研究显示,该方法显著提升推理可解释性与一致性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Persuasive dialogue requires reasoning about others' latent mental states, a capability known as Theory of Mind (ToM). However, due to reliance on simple prompting strategies and insufficient ToM knowledge, existing LLMs often fail to capture the intrinsic dependencies among mental states, leading to fragmented representations and unstable reasoning. To address these challenges, we introduce the ToM-based Persuasive Dialogue (ToM-PD) task, grounded in the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework, which explicitly models the sequential dependencies among mental states in multi-turn dialogues. To facilitate research on this task, we construct a large-scale annotated dataset, ToM-based Broad Persuasive Dialogues (ToM-BPD), capturing fine-grained mental states and corresponding persuasive strategies. We further propose Think Thrice Before You Speak (TTBYS), a knowledge-enhanced stepwise reasoning framework that leverages both explicit and implicit prior experiences to improve LLMs' inference of desires, beliefs, and persuasive strategies. Experimental results demonstrate that Qwen3-8B equipped with TTBYS outperforms GPT-5 by 1.20%, 22.80%, and 16.97% in predicting desires, beliefs, and persuasive strategies, respectively. Case studies further show that our approach enhances interpretability and consistency in reasoning.
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