arXiv AI

EmoFSM: A Finite State Machine for Emotional Support Conversation

arXiv:2504. 11837v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emotional support conversation (ESC) aims to alleviate people's emotional distress through effective conversations.

arXiv AI
Jul 17

From Stateless to Situated: Building a Psychological World for LLM-Based Agents

arXiv:2603. 25031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In psychological support and emotional companionship scenarios, the core limitation of large language models (LLMs) lies not merely in response quality, but in their reliance on local next-token prediction, which prevents them from maintaining the temporal continuity, stage awareness, and user consent boundaries required for multi-turn intervention.

By Boning Zhao, Yutong Hu, Xinnuo Li
arXiv AI
Jul 9

EMO-R3: Reflective Reinforcement Learning for Emotional Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 23802v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable progress in visual reasoning and understanding tasks but still struggle to capture the complexity and subjectivity of human emotions.

By Yiyang Fang, Wenke Huang, Pei Fu, Yihao Yang, Kehua Su, Zhenbo Luo, Jian Luan, Mang Ye