PolicyEvol-Agent: Evolving Policy via Environment Perception and Self-Awareness with Theory of Mind

Yajie Yu, Yue Feng
4/20/2025
cs.AIcs.LG

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Abstract

Multi-agents has exhibited significant intelligence in real-word simulations with Large language models (LLMs) due to the capabilities of social cognition and knowledge retrieval. However, existing research on agents equipped with effective cognition chains including reasoning, planning, decision-making and reflecting remains limited, especially in the dynamically interactive scenarios. In addition, unlike human, prompt-based responses face challenges in psychological state perception and empirical calibration during uncertain gaming process, which can inevitably lead to cognition bias. In light of above, we introduce PolicyEvol-Agent, a comprehensive LLM-empowered framework characterized by systematically acquiring intentions of others and adaptively optimizing irrational strategies for continual enhancement. Specifically, PolicyEvol-Agent first obtains reflective expertise patterns and then integrates a range of cognitive operations with Theory of Mind alongside internal and external perspectives. Simulation results, outperforming RL-based models and agent-based methods, demonstrate the superiority of PolicyEvol-Agent for final gaming victory. Moreover, the policy evolution mechanism reveals the effectiveness of dynamic guideline adjustments in both automatic and human evaluation.

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@article{yu2025policyevolagent,
  title  = {PolicyEvol-Agent: Evolving Policy via Environment Perception and Self-Awareness with Theory of Mind},
  author = {Yajie Yu and Yue Feng},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2504.15313},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15313v1}
}

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