Towards Efficient and Robust Linguistic Emotion Diagnosis for Mental Health via Multi-Agent Instruction Refinement
School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University(计算机科学与技术学院,西安交通大学);Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore(Saw Swee Hock 公共卫生学院,新加坡国立大学)
Jian Zhang, Zhangqi Wang, Zhiyuan Wang, Weiping Fu, Yu He, Haiping Zhu, Qika Lin, Jun Liu
Linguistic expressions of emotions such as depression, anxiety, and trauma-related states are pervasive in clinical notes, counseling dialogues, and online mental health communities, and accurate recognition of these emotions is essential for clinical triage, risk assessment, and timely intervention. Although large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong generalization ability in emotion analysis tasks, their diagnostic reliability in high-stakes, context-intensive medical settings remains highly sensitive to prompt design. Moreover, existing methods face two key challenges: emotional comorbidity, in which multiple intertwined emotional states complicate prediction, and inefficient exploration of clinically relevant cues. To address these challenges, we propose APOLO (Automated Prompt Optimization for Linguistic Emotion Diagnosis), a framework that systematically explores a broader and finer-grained prompt space to improve diagnostic efficiency and robustness. APOLO formulates instruction refinement as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process and adopts a multi-agent collaboration mechanism involving Planner, Teacher, Critic, Student, and Target roles. Within this closed-loop framework, the Planner defines an optimization trajectory, while the Teacher-Critic-Student agents iteratively refine prompts to enhance reasoning stability and effectiveness, and the Target agent determines whether to continue optimization based on performance evaluation. Experimental results show that APOLO consistently improves diagnostic accuracy and robustness across domain-specific and stratified benchmarks, demonstrating a scalable and generalizable paradigm for trustworthy LLM applications in mental healthcare.
Can Artificial Intelligence Support Healthcare and Mental Health Through Early Cyberbullying Detection ? The Impact of Emotion-Aware AI on Proactive Online Safety
Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick(新不伦瑞克大学计算机科学学院);Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University(东北大学库里计算机科学学院)
An Offline Mobile Conversational Agent for Mental Health Support: Learning from Emotional Dialogues and Psychological Texts with Student-Centered Evaluation
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal(电子工程与计算机科学系,比哈尔印度科学教育与研究中心)
A Safety-Gated Multimodal AI Backend for Mental-Health Support: Hierarchical State Representation, Conservative Risk Fusion, and Controlled Generation in Anian
Linguistic Comparison of AI- and Human-Written Responses to Online Mental Health Queries
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(Siebel计算与数据科学学院,格拉inger工程学院,伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Department of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(心理学系,文理学院,伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology(交互计算学院,计算机学院,佐治亚理工学院)
Mental Models of Autonomy and Sentience Shape Reactions to AI
Sentience Institute(意识研究所);Missouri University of Science and Technology(密苏里科技大学);Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences(人类认知与脑科学Max Planck研究所);Stanford University(斯坦福大学);University of Chicago(芝加哥大学)
Mapping Caregiver Needs to AI Chatbot Design: Strengths and Gaps in Mental Health Support for Alzheimer's and Dementia Caregivers
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign(伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校);Indiana University Indianapolis(印第安纳大学印第安纳波利斯分校);University of Massachusetts Amherst(马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校)
Bridging Modalities: Knowledge Distillation and Masked Training for Translating Multi-Modal Emotion Recognition to Uni-Modal, Speech-Only Emotion Recognition
Feeling Machines: Ethics, Culture, and the Rise of Emotional AI
Fraunhofer IPK(弗劳恩霍夫生产系统与设计技术研究所);TU Berlin(柏林工业大学);Université Sorbonne Paris Nord(索邦巴黎北大学);University of Augsburg(奥格斯堡大学);EM Lyon Business School(里昂商学院);EPITA(法国巴黎计算机及自动化学院);Università di Pisa(比萨大学);University of Bamberg(班贝格大学);Universidad Central de Venezuela(委内瑞拉中央大学);RWTH Aachen University(亚琛工业大学);Harz University of Applied Sciences(哈茨应用技术大学);University of Passau(帕绍大学);SCAI, Sorbonne Université(索邦大学人工智能中心);University of Hamburg(汉堡大学);Osnabrueck University(奥斯纳布吕克大学);ICM, LIP6 UMR 7606 CNRS(法国国家科学研究中心皮埃尔和玛丽居里大学计算机科学实验室);Sorbonne Université(索邦大学)