Research
International conferences
PCM-LLMs: Bridging Non-Verbal Consciousness Modeling and Language Processing to Make Intelligent Social Virtual Agents Closer to Human Beings
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, ASSC28 (poster), Crete, Greece, July 2025Dualities in Homogeneous Spaces May Underly Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness
G. Sergeant-Perthuis, N. Ruet, T. Yan, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, ASSC27 (poster), Tokyo, Japan, July 2024Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with Simple Maths
D. Rudrauf, T. Yan, N. Ruet, K. Williford, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, ASSC27 (talk), Tokyo, Japan, July 2024Exploring how the geometry of the representation space influences curiosity-based exploration
N. Ruet, T. Yan, D. Ognibene, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, ASSC27 (poster), Tokyo, Japan, July 2024
Workshops
Minds Without Bodies: How VLMs Fail at Embodied Social Reasoning
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, D. Rudrauf, 1st Workshop on Computational Psychology (poster), ENS Paris-Saclay, France, 2026Optimal control on hallucinatory colors
X. Zhang, T. Yan, K. Takeda, M. Paganin, Post-ASSC Satellite Symposium (poster), Kyoto, Japan, July 2024
Under review
Formalizing Consciousness: A Comparative Mathematical Analysis of Leading Theories
T. Yan, J. Tsukahara, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, 2026A Hybrid PCM-LLM Architecture for Interpretable and Socially Situated Agents
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, D. Rudrauf, 2026
Preprints
Integrating Machine Consciousness Simulation and LLMs Toward Verbal and Non-Verbal General Intelligence in Artificial Agents
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, K Williford, D. Rudrauf, 2025PCM-LLMs: A Hybrid Architecture to Enhance Human-like Social Intelligence in Virtual Agents
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, D. Rudrauf, 2025Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with Simple Maths
G. Sergeant-Perthuis, T. Yan, N. Ruet, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, 2024