6 papers
PsychAgent: An Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning Agent for Self-Evolving Psychological Counselor
Yutao Yang, Junsong Li, Qianjun Pan +7
Existing methods for AI psychological counselors predominantly rely on supervised fine-tuning using static dialogue datasets. However, this contrasts with human experts, who contin…
PRMB: Benchmarking Reward Models in Long-Horizon CBT-based Counseling Dialogue
Yougen Zhou, Qin Chen, Ningning Zhou +2
Large language models (LLMs) hold potential for mental healthcare applications, particularly in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based counseling, where reward models play a crit…
PsychEval: A Multi-Session and Multi-Therapy Benchmark for High-Realism AI Psychological Counselor
Qianjun Pan, Junyi Wang, Jie Zhou +10
To develop a reliable AI for psychological assessment, we introduce \texttt{PsychEval}, a multi-session, multi-therapy, and highly realistic benchmark designed to address three key…
Mitigating Strategy Preference Bias in Emotional Support Conversation via Uncertainty Estimations
Yougen Zhou, Qin Chen, Ningning Zhou +3
Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate distress through empathetic dialogue, yet large language models (LLMs) face persistent challenges in delivering effective ESC…
DiaCBT: A Long-Periodic Dialogue Corpus Guided by Cognitive Conceptualization Diagram for CBT-based Psychological Counseling
Yougen Zhou, Ningning Zhou, Qin Chen +3
Psychotherapy reaches only a small fraction of individuals suffering from mental disorders due to social stigma and the limited availability of therapists. Large language models (L…
Enhancing Depression-Diagnosis-Oriented Chat with Psychological State Tracking
Yiyang Gu, Yougen Zhou, Qin Chen +4
Depression-diagnosis-oriented chat aims to guide patients in self-expression to collect key symptoms for depression detection. Recent work focuses on combining task-oriented dialog…