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cs.CL2026

MIThinker: A Plug-and-Play Policy-Optimized Thinker For Motivational Interviewing Counseling

Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +2

Reasoning large language models (LLMs) have recently made much progress in complex problem-solving, leveraging internal reasoning (or thought) to guide their solution generation. H…

cs.CL2026

DialToM: A Theory of Mind Benchmark for Forecasting State-Driven Dialogue Trajectories

Neemesh Yadav, Palakorn Achananuparp, Jing Jiang +1

We introduce DialToM, an annotated Theory of Mind (ToM) benchmark built from naturalistic human-human dialogues using a multiple-choice evaluation framework. Concurrent with recent…

cs.CL2026

On Reasoning Behind Next Occupation Recommendation

Shan Dong, Palakorn Achananuparp, Hieu Hien Mai +3

In this work, we develop a novel reasoning approach to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in future occupation prediction. In this approach, a reason generator…

cs.CL2026

MHSafeEval: Role-Aware Interaction-Level Evaluation of Mental Health Safety in Large Language Models

Suhyun Lee, Palakorn Achananuparp, Neemesh Yadav +2

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly explored as scalable tools for mental health counseling, yet evaluating their safety remains challenging due to the interactional and…

cs.CL2025

A Multi-Stage Framework with Taxonomy-Guided Reasoning for Occupation Classification Using Large Language Models

Palakorn Achananuparp, Ee-Peng Lim, Yao Lu

Automatically annotating job data with standardized occupations from taxonomies, known as occupation classification, is crucial for labor market analysis. However, this task is oft…

cs.CL2025

Effects of Theory of Mind and Prosocial Beliefs on Steering Human-Aligned Behaviors of LLMs in Ultimatum Games

Neemesh Yadav, Yihuai Lan, Palakorn Achananuparp +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown potential in simulating human behaviors and performing theory-of-mind (ToM) reasoning, crucial for complex social interactions. We investiga…