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.

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• agents
• multimodal
• benchmarks