4 papers
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…
CAMI: A Counselor Agent Supporting Motivational Interviewing through State Inference and Topic Exploration
Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +5
Conversational counselor agents have become essential tools for addressing the rising demand for scalable and accessible mental health support. This paper introduces CAMI, a novel…
Consistent Client Simulation for Motivational Interviewing-based Counseling
Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +7
Simulating human clients in mental health counseling is crucial for training and evaluating counselors (both human or simulated) in a scalable manner. Nevertheless, past research o…
Speaker Verification in Agent-Generated Conversations
Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +2
The recent success of large language models (LLMs) has attracted widespread interest to develop role-playing conversational agents personalized to the characteristics and styles of…