arXiv Machine Learning

Multilingual Lexical Feature Analysis of Spoken Language for Predicting Major Depression Symptom Severity

arXiv AI
1d ago

Interpretable Symptom Vectors for Depression in a Large Language Model

The study investigates how a large language model, Gemma-3-27B-PT, internally represents depressive symptoms. By applying mechanistic interpretability methods to the model’s residual stream, researchers found that symptom groups are geometrically distinct at layer 21, and that projected symptom vectors align with clinician-annotated rankings across mood, somatic, and suicidality dimensions. Additionally, a single depression vector at this layer can differentiate depressive from non-depressive text with an AUC of 0.789, suggesting a potential emotional valence gate for symptom projection.

By Fangyi Zhu, Ajay Subramanian, Allison Constant, Camille Wang, Ravish Gupta, Corey J. Keller
arXiv AI
3d ago

TAMI: Temporally Aligned, Missingness-Aware, and Interpretable Multimodal Fusion for Mental Health Assessment in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

arXiv:2608.30857v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Depression and anxiety in older adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) are frequently underdiagnosed due to limited access to care. Multimodal a...

By Merna Bibars, Bolaji Omofojoye, Allan I. Levey, Rachel Hershenberg, Gari D. Clifford, Hyeokhyen Kwon
arXiv AI
Aug 10

Natural Language Processing Psychometrics

arXiv:2608. 07316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Natural Language Processing (NLP) models predicting mental health outcomes rarely specify what they measure: contextual knowledge, emotional content, or syntactic structure.

By Edoardo Sebastiano De Duro, Emma Franchino, Massimo Stella
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Primary ICD Category Prediction using LLM-based Probing

arXiv:2606. 28798v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Objective: ICD codes are central to reimbursement, research, and population health surveillance, yet automated coding systems often struggle to integrate diagnostic signals from both clinical narratives and structured electronic health record (EHR) variables.

By Chengyuan Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Yao Li, Guanting Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Evidence-Grounded Mapping of Multimodal Human Sensing Psychological Transdiagnostic Dimensions

The study introduces a clinician‑in‑the‑loop benchmark to assess whether large language models can generate evidence‑grounded Brief Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (B‑HiTOP) item profiles from multimodal data, including passive sensing, ecological momentary assessment, and questionnaires. Using the GLOBEM dataset, the authors create 14,592 participant‑day instances aligned to 29 B‑HiTOP items across five spectra, and evaluate evidence compatibility rather than diagnostic accuracy. Two‑stage prediction improves compatibility for EMA and questionnaire evidence but reduces it for passive sensing and combined evidence, yielding more conservative score distributions across models, spectra, and evidence settings.

By Xiyun Hu, Xiangyuan Xue, Yuting Lyu, Hanya Shao, Jingping Nie
arXiv AI
Jul 29

DynaBridge: Dynamic Summary-Guided Cross-Task Multimodal Fusion for DASS-Structured Mental Health Assessment

arXiv:2607. 25679v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal behavioral analysis offers a scalable approach to assessing depression, anxiety, and stress, yet generic fusion models often ignore the psychometric structure of questionnaire labels.

By Shiyu Teng, Haichen Yu, Jiaqing Liu, Hao Sun, Yu Song, Shurong Chai, Ruibo Hou, Lanfen Lin, Yen-Wei Chen