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most citedMentaLLaMA: Interpretable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media with Large Language Models

153 citations · 730 across the 26 of their papers we have counts for

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26 papers

cs.CL2026

Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations

Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Zhaoming Chen +8

We present an overview of PsyDefDetect, the shared task on detecting levels of psychological defense mechanisms in emotional support dialogues, co-located with BioNLP@ACL 2026. Gro…

cs.CV2026

SiMing-Bench: Evaluating Procedural Correctness from Continuous Interactions in Clinical Skill Videos

Xiyang Huang, Jiawei Lin, Keying Wu +9

Current video benchmarks for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) focus on event recognition, temporal ordering, and long-context recall, but overlook a harder capability requi…

cs.CL2025

MiraMind: Benchmarking Reliable Mental Health Reasoning beyond Answer Accuracy

Mengxi Xiao, Kailai Yang, Pengde Zhao +12

Mental-health reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is an evidence-constrained judgment problem: models must transform limited, subjective, and often ambiguous evidence into…

cs.CL2025

Natural Language Processing for Cardiology: A Narrative Review

Kailai Yang, Yan Leng, Xin Zhang +5

Cardiovascular diseases are becoming increasingly prevalent in modern society, with a profound impact on global health and well-being. These Cardiovascular disorders are complex an…

cs.CL2025

Exploring Safety Alignment Evaluation of LLMs in Chinese Mental Health Dialogues via LLM-as-Judge

Yunna Cai, Fan Wang, Haowei Wang +5

Evaluating the safety alignment of LLM responses in high-risk mental health dialogues is particularly difficult due to missing gold-standard answers and the ethically sensitive nat…

cs.CL2025

MMAFFBen: A Multilingual and Multimodal Affective Analysis Benchmark for Evaluating LLMs and VLMs

Zhiwei Liu, Lingfei Qian, Qianqian Xie +3

Large language models and vision-language models (which we jointly call LMs) have transformed NLP and CV, demonstrating remarkable potential across various fields. However, their c…

cs.CL2025

Sigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models

Zhenghao Lin, Zihao Tang, Xiao Liu +31

We introduce Sigma, an efficient large language model specialized for the system domain, empowered by a novel architecture including DiffQKV attention, and pre-trained on our metic…

cs.CL2025

Rumor Detection by Multi-task Suffix Learning based on Time-series Dual Sentiments

Zhiwei Liu, Kailai Yang, Eduard Hovy +1

The widespread dissemination of rumors on social media has a significant impact on people's lives, potentially leading to public panic and fear. Rumors often evoke specific sentime…

cs.CL2024★ 4 cited

FMDLlama: Financial Misinformation Detection based on Large Language Models

Zhiwei Liu, Xin Zhang, Kailai Yang +3

The emergence of social media has made the spread of misinformation easier. In the financial domain, the accuracy of information is crucial for various aspects of financial market,…

cs.CL2024

Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation

Kailai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Qianqian Xie +3

Recent advancements in large language model alignment leverage token-level supervisions to perform fine-grained preference optimization. However, existing token-level alignment met…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

RAEmoLLM: Retrieval Augmented LLMs for Cross-Domain Misinformation Detection Using In-Context Learning Based on Emotional Information

Zhiwei Liu, Kailai Yang, Qianqian Xie +3

Misinformation is prevalent in various fields such as education, politics, health, etc., causing significant harm to society. However, current methods for cross-domain misinformati…

cs.CL2024

MetaAligner: Towards Generalizable Multi-Objective Alignment of Language Models

Kailai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Qianqian Xie +3

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) focus on aligning to heterogeneous human expectations and values via multi-objective preference alignment. However, existing met…

cs.CL2024★ 5 cited

ConspEmoLLM: Conspiracy Theory Detection Using an Emotion-Based Large Language Model

Zhiwei Liu, Boyang Liu, Paul Thompson +2

The internet has brought both benefits and harms to society. A prime example of the latter is misinformation, including conspiracy theories, which flood the web. Recent advances in…

cs.HC2024★ 20 cited

HealMe: Harnessing Cognitive Reframing in Large Language Models for Psychotherapy

Mengxi Xiao, Qianqian Xie, Ziyan Kuang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) can play a vital role in psychotherapy by adeptly handling the crucial task of cognitive reframing and overcoming challenges such as shame, distrust, t…

cs.CL2024★ 21 cited

FinBen: A Holistic Financial Benchmark for Large Language Models

Qianqian Xie, Weiguang Han, Zhengyu Chen +31

LLMs have transformed NLP and shown promise in various fields, yet their potential in finance is underexplored due to a lack of comprehensive evaluation benchmarks, the rapid devel…

cs.CL2024★ 74 cited

EmoLLMs: A Series of Emotional Large Language Models and Annotation Tools for Comprehensive Affective Analysis

Zhiwei Liu, Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang +2

Sentiment analysis and emotion detection are important research topics in natural language processing (NLP) and benefit many downstream tasks. With the widespread application of LL…

cs.CL2024★ 37 cited

Large Language Models in Mental Health Care: a Scoping Review

Yining Hua, Fenglin Liu, Kailai Yang +9

Objectieve:This review aims to deliver a comprehensive analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) utilization in mental health care, evaluating their effectiveness, identifying chall…

cs.CL2023★ 11 cited

Rethinking Large Language Models in Mental Health Applications

Shaoxiong Ji, Tianlin Zhang, Kailai Yang +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become valuable assets in mental health, showing promise in both classification tasks and counseling applications. This paper offers a perspective…

cs.CL2023★ 60 cited

Emotion Detection for Misinformation: A Review

Zhiwei Liu, Tianlin Zhang, Kailai Yang +3

With the advent of social media, an increasing number of netizens are sharing and reading posts and news online. However, the huge volumes of misinformation (e.g., fake news and ru…

cs.CL2023★ 153 cited

MentaLLaMA: Interpretable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media with Large Language Models

Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Ziyan Kuang +3

With the development of web technology, social media texts are becoming a rich source for automatic mental health analysis. As traditional discriminative methods bear the problem o…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

A Bipartite Graph is All We Need for Enhancing Emotional Reasoning with Commonsense Knowledge

Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Shaoxiong Ji +1

The context-aware emotional reasoning ability of AI systems, especially in conversations, is of vital importance in applications such as online opinion mining from social media and…

cs.CL2023★ 22 cited

Disentangled Variational Autoencoder for Emotion Recognition in Conversations

Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou

In Emotion Recognition in Conversations (ERC), the emotions of target utterances are closely dependent on their context. Therefore, existing works train the model to generate the r…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Domain-specific Continued Pretraining of Language Models for Capturing Long Context in Mental Health

Shaoxiong Ji, Tianlin Zhang, Kailai Yang +3

Pretrained language models have been used in various natural language processing applications. In the mental health domain, domain-specific language models are pretrained and relea…

cs.CL2023★ 86 cited

Emotion fusion for mental illness detection from social media: A survey

Tianlin Zhang, Kailai Yang, Shaoxiong Ji +1

Mental illnesses are one of the most prevalent public health problems worldwide, which negatively influence people's lives and society's health. With the increasing popularity of s…