arXiv AI
Sep 30

MERID: Multimodal Exploration via Recursive Self-Improvement Agents for Major Depression Analysis

MERID is a framework that uses recursive self‑improvement agents to autonomously develop multimodal pipelines for detecting major depressive disorder. It aligns multimodal records with depression targets, jointly modifies representations, fusion, and predictors, and guides revisions through evidence‑guided evolution to validate improvements before inheritance. Experiments on depression benchmarks show MERID outperforms existing multimodal and agent‑based baselines, especially highlighting the importance of acoustic and linguistic cues.

By Lei Liu, Zhaokang Liang, Qingcheng Zeng, Chenda Duan, Lu Mi, Zhen Tan, Tianyu Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 21

Explainable Multimodal Depression Recognition in Clinical Interviews via PHQ-Aligned Symptom Summarization

arXiv:2501. 16106v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal depression recognition for clinical interviews (MDRC) have demonstrated the potential of AI systems by integrating textual, acoustic, and facial cues.

By Wenjie Zheng, Qiming Xie, Jianfei Yu, Yang Wang, Lei Cao, Fei Wang, Shijin Wang, Rui Xia, Chengqing Zong