5 papers
When Chatbots Accommodate: What AI Companions Optimize for in Vulnerable Conversations
Minh Duc Chu, Yifan Wu, Zhiyi Chen +2
Millions turn to AI companion chatbots during loneliness, grief, and personal crises. How these companion platforms respond in such moments can shape the trajectory of a user's vul…
Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions
Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46
This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…
CounselBench: A Large-Scale Expert Evaluation and Adversarial Benchmarking of Large Language Models in Mental Health Question Answering
Yahan Li, Jifan Yao, John Bosco S. Bunyi +3
Medical question answering (QA) benchmarks often focus on multiple-choice or fact-based tasks, leaving open-ended answers to real patient questions underexplored. This gap is parti…
CounselReflect: A Toolkit for Auditing Mental-Health Dialogues
Yahan Li, Chaohao Du, Zeyang Li +5
Mental-health support is increasingly mediated by conversational systems (e.g., LLM-based tools), but users often lack structured ways to audit the quality and potential risks of t…
MED-COPILOT: A Medical Assistant Powered by GraphRAG and Similar Patient Case Retrieval
Shuheng Chen, Namratha Patil, Haonan Pan +4
Clinical decision-making requires synthesizing heterogeneous evidence, including patient histories, clinical guidelines, and trajectories of comparable cases. While large language…