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10 papers

cs.CL2026

Steering the Compass: Aligning Dynamic Psychological Counseling Conversations with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Strategies

Zimu Wang, Yiwen Jiang, Xiangyu Zhao +10

Recent advancements in large language models have revolutionized the field of psychological counseling, especially in the context of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). While the s…

cs.CL2026

SDARE-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Conversational Stigma Detection and Response in Dyadic and Group Dialogue

Stephanie Fong, Yiwen Jiang, Zimu Wang +12

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in advice seeking and decision making that may affect social judgements. Despite stigma's profound effects on people and communit…

cs.AI2026

VIBE-Bench: Evaluating Personalized Large Language Models When Profiles Don't Mean Preferences

Yiwen Jiang, Yang Deng, Stephanie Fong +9

Personalized Large Language Models (PLLMs) aim to tailor responses to individual users, where a central challenge is preference reasoning: inferring query-relevant preferences from…

cs.CL2026

AnchorSIPS: A Synthetic Dataset and Evaluation Resource for Evidence-Supported Psychosis-Risk Symptom Measurement

Guilherme C. Oliveira, Stephanie Fong, Zimu Wang +10

Progress on AI for psychosis-risk assessment is limited by a data-access bottleneck. Real clinical interviews are difficult to share because of privacy, governance, and consent con…

cs.SD2026

AudioProcessBench: Benchmark for Identifying Process Errors in Audio-Grounded Reasoning

Xiangyu Zhao, Junyu Yan, Yaling Shen +7

Large audio-language models (LALMs) increasingly use explicit reasoning traces for complex audio understanding, yet the evaluation of reasoning quality remains underexplored. Altho…

cs.AI2026

Herculean: An Agentic Benchmark for Financial Intelligence

Xueqing Peng, Zhuohan Xie, Yupeng Cao +60

As AI agents advance, the central question is no longer whether they can solve isolated financial tasks, but whether their capabilities generalize across complete professional work…

cs.CL2026

Do No Harm: Exposing Hidden Vulnerabilities of LLMs via Persona-based Client Simulation Attack in Psychological Counseling

Qingyang Xu, Yaling Shen, Stephanie Fong +7

The increasing use of large language models (LLMs) in mental healthcare raises safety concerns in high-stakes therapeutic interactions. A key challenge is distinguishing therapeuti…

cs.CL2026

CHiRPE: A Step Towards Real-World Clinical NLP with Clinician-Oriented Model Explanations

Stephanie Fong, Zimu Wang, Guilherme C. Oliveira +9

The medical adoption of NLP tools requires interpretability by end users, yet traditional explainable AI (XAI) methods are misaligned with clinical reasoning and lack clinician inp…

cs.CL2026

PsychEthicsBench: Evaluating Large Language Models Against Australian Mental Health Ethics

Yaling Shen, Stephanie Fong, Yiwen Jiang +9

The increasing integration of large language models (LLMs) into mental health applications necessitates robust frameworks for evaluating professional safety alignment. Current eval…

cs.MM2025

It Hears, It Sees too: Multi-Modal LLM for Depression Detection By Integrating Visual Understanding into Audio Language Models

Xiangyu Zhao, Yaling Shen, Yiwen Jiang +7

Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health disorders globally. In recent years, multi-modal data, such as speech, video, and transcripts, has been increasingly used to d…