arXiv:2507. 02950v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) may support counseling training, yet evidence from Japanese-language interactions and automated quality ratings remains limited.
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LLM companions are deployed at scale in personally consequential settings, yet poorly evaluated. Existing benchmarks use hand-authored scenarios and prompted simulators, aggregate empathy into one score, and overlook judge biases such as same-family favoritism and scale drift.
arXiv:2608. 02046v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM companions are deployed at scale in personally consequential settings, yet poorly evaluated.
arXiv:2607. 25667v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Psychotherapists need repeated training and supervision by experts; however, scalability is problematic.
arXiv:2606. 30887v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models show promise for mental health support, yet therapeutic quality improves only when evaluation functions as an actionable control signal rather than a passive metric.
arXiv:2608. 07499v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The development and benchmarking of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Motivational Interviewing (MI) counsellors now often rely on LLM-based simulated clients.
arXiv:2607. 08257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown strong performance on isolated psychiatric tasks, including dialogue, diagnosis, and treatment planning, yet existing benchmarks rarely simulate complete psychiatric clinical encounters.