SocialR1-8B is a social reasoning model built on Qwen3-8B, trained with trajectory-level reinforcement learning (GRPO) using the Social-R1 framework. It enhances Theory-of-Mind (ToM) and social inference capabilities by aligning reasoning processes with the Social Information Processing (SIP) theory.

📄 Paper: Social-R1: Enhancing Social Reasoning in LLMs through Trajectory-Level Reinforcement Learning

Highlights

🧠 SIP-Guided Reasoning: Enforces stage-consistent social inference — Cue Encoding → Cue Interpretation → Goal Clarification → Response Generation
🎯 Multi-Dimensional Reward: Combines structural reward, content reward, inference efficiency, and format reward with curriculum-style weighting
📊 Strong Performance: Matches or outperforms substantially larger baselines across static MCQ benchmarks, open-ended generation (FanToM), and interactive settings (SOTOPIA)

Usage

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

model_name = "Jincenzi/SocialR1-8B"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name)
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained(model_name, torch_dtype="auto", device_map="auto")

messages = [
    {"role": "user", "content": "You should first think about the reasoning process in the mind and then provide with the answer.The reasoning process and answer are enclosed within <think> </think> and <Answer> </Answer> tags, respectively."}
]
text = tokenizer.apply_chat_template(messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True)
inputs = tokenizer([text], return_tensors="pt").to(model.device)
outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=2048)
print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True))

Training Details

Base Model: Qwen3-8B
Training Method: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)
Training Steps: 600
Hardware: 8× NVIDIA A100 (80GB)
Reward Design: SIP structural reward ($R_\text{struct}$) + SIP content reward ($R_\text{cont}$) + inference efficiency ($R_\text{len}$) + format reward ($R_\text{fmt}$)

Evaluation

SocialR1-8B is evaluated across three complementary settings:

Static MCQ: ToMBench, ToMBench-Hard, SocialIQA, SimpleToM, EmoBench, MotiveBench, Hi-ToM, TactfulToM
Open-ended Generation: FanToM
Interactive Social Intelligence: SOTOPIA

Related Resources

Resource	Link
Paper	arXiv:2603.09249
SocialR1-4B	Jincenzi/SocialR1-4B

Citation

BibTeX

@inproceedings{wu2026socialr1,
  title={Social-R1: Enhancing Social Reasoning in LLMs through Trajectory-Level Reinforcement Learning},
  author={Wu, Jincenzi and Lei, Yuxuan and Lian, Jianxun and Huang, Yitian and Zhou, Lexin and Li, Haotian and Yang, Deng and Xie, Xing and Meng, Helen},
  booktitle={Arxiv},
  year={2026}
}

Contact

For questions or discussions, please contact jincenziwu@gmail.com.