Research
Publications
- Formalizing Consciousness: A Comparative Mathematical Analysis of Leading Theories
T. Yan, J. Tsukahara, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, Biological Cybernetics, 2026
Under review
Looks the Same, Moves Differently: How Agent Architecture Shapes Behaviour, Experience, and Outcome in VR
T. Yan, D. Rudrauf, 2026A Hybrid PCM-LLM Architecture for Interpretable and Socially Situated Agents
T. Yan, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, D. Rudrauf, 2026Belief Without Behavior: Measuring the Translation of Theory of Mind into Coordinated Social Action in Vision-Language Models
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
Communications
Conferences
Formalizing Consciousness: A Comparative Mathematical Analysis of Leading Theories
T. Yan, 7th Models of Consciousness Conference (MoC7) (talk), Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 2026Belief Without Behavior: A Sally-Anne-Inspired Benchmark for Testing Theory of Mind Beyond Verbal Report in Vision Language Models
T. Yan, MoC7 (poster), Copenhagen, Denmark, Oct. 2026PCM-LLM: 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 2025Exploring 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 2024Integrated Information Theory (IIT) with Simple Maths
D. Rudrauf, T. Yan, N. Ruet, K. Williford, G. Sergeant-Perthuis, ASSC27 (talk), Tokyo, Japan, July 2024Dualities in G-Spaces May Underly Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness
G. Sergeant-Perthuis, N. Ruet, T. Yan, K. Williford, D. Rudrauf, 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, June 2026Optimal Transport of Hallucinatory Colors
L. X. Zhang, T. Yan, K. Takeda, M. Paganin, Post-ASSC Satellite Symposium (poster), Kyoto, Japan, July 2024