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Wilson describe tests of language models playing repeated hide-and-seek against algorithmic opponents. They distinguish adapting play or predicting actions from tracking an opponent’s beliefs—the opponent’s inferred knowledge or intentions. The model-specific results are not interchangeable: Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct made better predictions when given the opponent’s type and parameter settings, but predictions were less accurate when it had to infer the opponent from interaction history. GPT-5.4 made better predictions and choices when supplied with correct opponent beliefs; deeper explicit belief reports and self-generated memory did not consistently improve forecasting from history. The authors’ abstract suggests that using supplied belief information may be easier than inferring it autonomously in these tests. 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