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WPG-MoE framework enhances social media depression detection using LLMs · 2 sources tracked

Researchers have developed WPG-MoE, a novel framework utilizing a large language model (LLM) backbone to improve depression detection from social media data. This system employs a weak-prior-guided dense mixture-of-experts approach, allowing users to be routed to specialized experts based on their unique expression of depressive risk. The framework uses privileged information during training to guide routing, while inference relies on a simplified Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) screening. Experiments on both Chinese and English datasets indicate that WPG-MoE surpasses existing methods and demonstrates interpretable routing. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more accurate and personalized AI-driven mental health screening tools by better accounting for individual user expression patterns.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xian Li, Yuanhe Tian, Yang Yang, Guoqing Wang, Yan Song ·

    WPG-MoE: Weak-Prior-Guided Dense Mixture-of-Experts for User-Level Social Media Depression Detection

    arXiv:2607.04350v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online social media posts provide scalable signals for early depression screening, and recent studies mainly improve pre-classification evidence through risk-post selection, symptom grounding, and clinically informed feature constru…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yan Song ·

    WPG-MoE: Weak-Prior-Guided Dense Mixture-of-Experts for User-Level Social Media Depression Detection

    Online social media posts provide scalable signals for early depression screening, and recent studies mainly improve pre-classification evidence through risk-post selection, symptom grounding, and clinically informed feature construction. However, these screening-stage designs of…