3 papers
cs.HC2026
Why It Hurts: Identifying the Drivers of Negative Thoughts in Emotional Support Conversations
Hainiu Xu, Zhaoyue Sun, Hanqi Yan +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for emotional support tasks, such as negative thought reframing. This task relies on modifying cognitive appraisals, the subjecti…
cs.AI2026
CAREBench: Evaluating LLMs' Emotion Understanding by Assessing Cognitive Appraisal Reasoning
Zhaoyue Sun, Hainiu Xu, Andero Uusberg +3
Emotion understanding is a core capability for LLMs to interact effectively with humans, yet existing evaluation paradigms rely on discrete emotion label prediction and fail to cap…
cs.CL2024
Calibrating LLMs with Preference Optimization on Thought Trees for Generating Rationale in Science Question Scoring
Jiazheng Li, Hainiu Xu, Zhaoyue Sun +4
Generating rationales that justify scoring decisions has been a promising way to facilitate explainability in automated scoring systems. However, existing methods do not match the…