3 papers
cs.CL2026
Low Perplexity is Repetition: A One-Dimensional Self-Conditioning Attractor in Continuous Diffusion LMs
Shuai Zhang, Zijie Chen, Hongliang He +2
Continuous diffusion language models such as ELF report record-low generative perplexity (Gen-PPL). We find a catch: these models repeat far more than human text, and Gen-PPL rewar…
cs.CL2025
The Expressions of Depression and Anxiety in Chinese Psycho-counseling: Usage of First-person Singular Pronoun and Negative Emotional Words
Lizhi Ma, Tong Zhao, Shuai Zhang +7
This study explores the relationship between linguistic expressions and psychological states of depression and anxiety within Chinese psycho-counseling interactions, focusing speci…
cs.CL2024
Understanding the Therapeutic Relationship between Counselors and Clients in Online Text-based Counseling using LLMs
Anqi Li, Yu Lu, Nirui Song +3
Robust therapeutic relationships between counselors and clients are fundamental to counseling effectiveness. The assessment of therapeutic alliance is well-established in tradition…