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most citedAre LLMs effective psychological assessors? Leveraging adaptive RAG for interpretable mental health screening through psychometric practice

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cs.CL2026

The Changing Geometry of Grammar: Dimensionality and Neighborhood Reorganization across Transformer Layers

Samuele Vallisa, Federico Ravenda, Claudio Palominos +5

Transformer representations describe trajectories through high-dimensional vector spaces, which are shaped dynamically as tokens incorporate relational context across layers. Such…

stat.ML2025

A general framework for adaptive nonparametric dimensionality reduction

Antonio Di Noia, Federico Ravenda, Antonietta Mira

Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task in modern data science. Several projection methods specifically tailored to take into account the non-linearity of the data via local…

cs.CL2025

Navigating through the hidden embedding space: steering LLMs to improve mental health assessment

Federico Ravenda, Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Andrea Raballo +1

The rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) is transforming AI, opening new opportunities in sensitive and high-impact areas such as Mental Health (MH). Yet, despite these…

cs.IR2025

Zero-Shot and Efficient Clarification Need Prediction in Conversational Search

Lili Lu, Chuan Meng, Federico Ravenda +2

Clarification need prediction (CNP) is a key task in conversational search, aiming to predict whether to ask a clarifying question or give an answer to the current user query. Howe…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Are LLMs effective psychological assessors? Leveraging adaptive RAG for interpretable mental health screening through psychometric practice

Federico Ravenda, Seyed Ali Bahrainian, Andrea Raballo +2

In psychological practices, standardized questionnaires serve as essential tools for assessing mental health through structured, clinically-validated questions (i.e., items). While…

cs.HC2024

The Emotional Spectrum of LLMs: Leveraging Empathy and Emotion-Based Markers for Mental Health Support

Alessandro De Grandi, Federico Ravenda, Andrea Raballo +1

The increasing demand for mental health services has highlighted the need for innovative solutions, particularly in the realm of psychological conversational AI, where the availabi…