What's worth the effort: Ten-month-old infants infer the value of goals from the costs of actions

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Machine Theory of Mind (2018, background): “This inference resembles the ability of children to jointly reason about agents’ costs and rewards when observing short traces of past behaviour (Jara-Ettinger et al., 2016; Liu et al., 2017).”
Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks (2023, background): “In fact, there are already many reasonable computational models that try to directly capture this ability (e.g. 31; 32; 33; 34; 35; 10), and which put formal skin on decades-old proposals in cognitive science and psychology.”
Theory of mind as inverse reinforcement learning (2019, background): “Using this assumption, even children can infer other people’s preferences [6,7], knowledge [8,9], and moral standing [10–12].”
Incremental Object Learning From Contiguous Views (2019, background): “Other works have developed speciﬁc computational models for children’s cognitive processes (see [30] for a recent example).”