3 papers
cs.IR2026
TWICE: Modeling the Temporal Evolution of Personalized User Behavior via Event-Driven Agents
Bingrui Jin, Kunyao Lan, Baihan LI +1
User simulators are widely used for data generation, evaluation, and agent-based interaction, but existing approaches often model users as static personas or rely on generic histor…
cs.CL2026
SSR: Can Simulated Patients Learn to Stigmatize Themselves? Modeling Self-Stigma through Internal Monologue
Kunyao Lan, Bingrui Jin, Zichen Zhu +1
Simulating patients with large language models (LLMs) is a promising tool for mental health training, but existing approaches fail to capture a key clinical reality: self-stigma. P…
cs.CL2026
Synthetic or Authentic? Building Mental Patient Simulators from Longitudinal Evidence
Baihan Li, Bingrui Jin, Kunyao Lan +2
Patient simulation is essential for developing and evaluating mental health dialogue systems. As most existing approaches rely on snapshot-style prompts with limited profile inform…