@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-costom, title = "{C}o{ST}o{M}: Causal-oriented Steering for Intrinsic Theory-of-Mind Alignment in Large Language Models", author = "Li, Mengfan and Shi, Xuanhua and Deng, Yang", editor = "Liakata, Maria and Moreira, Viviane P. and Zhang, Jiajun and Jurgens, David", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)", month = jul, year = "2026", address = "San Diego, California, United States", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl/2026.acl-long.421/", pages = "9302--9317", ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6" }