3 papers
cs.CV2025
Seeing Culture: A Benchmark for Visual Reasoning and Grounding
Burak Satar, Zhixin Ma, Patrick A. Irawan +4
Multimodal vision-language models (VLMs) have made substantial progress in various tasks that require a combined understanding of visual and textual content, particularly in cultur…
cs.CL2025
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…
cs.CL2025
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…