LIACS Thesis Repository
These webpages contain theses and reports by students affiliated with the various bachelor and master programmes offered at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science
(LIACS),
the computer science and artificial intelligence department of Leiden University.
The following thesis was written by a student who graduated in 2025-2026 from the Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence programme at Leiden University.
Thesis details
| Title | Thinking Deliberately or Thinking Too Much? Investigating the Tradeoff Between Theory-of-Mind Performance of Agentic-LLMs Using Mental State Modeling and Model Expenses |
| Student | Liem, K. (Katherine) |
| Programme | Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence |
| Year | 2025-2026 |
| Supervisors | Meer, dr. M. (Michiel) van der L.C. Froma (second supervisor) |
| Thesis | Open Thesis PDF |
Citation details
Liem, K. (Katherine), Thinking Deliberately or Thinking Too Much? Investigating the Tradeoff Between Theory-of-Mind Performance of Agentic-LLMs Using Mental State Modeling and Model Expenses, Thesis Bachelor Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, LIACS, Leiden University, 2026.