Who Sees What, Who Pays the Cost? Teaching Agents to See Through Others’ Eyes
TL;DR A new study probes whether you can teach perspective‑taking to ReAct‑style LLM agents by feeding them structured examples distilled from a symbolic planner: optimal goal paths (G‑type), information‑seeking paths (E‑type), and local contrastive decisions (L‑type). The punchline: agents became decent at common‑ground filtering (what the other party can see) but remained brittle at imagining occluded space and pricing the cost of asking vs. exploring. In business terms, they’re good at “don’t recommend what the customer can’t see,” but still bad at “should I go find out more before I act—and is it worth it?” ...