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New benchmark suite LongCounsel-8 aims to improve longitudinal depression tracking

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Researchers have introduced LongCounsel-8, a new benchmark suite designed to improve the tracking of depression over multiple counseling sessions. The suite comprises three datasets with a total of 7,749 five-session counseling trajectories, grounded in realistic client profiles and depression patterns. Experiments using LongCounsel-8 revealed that current depression tracking methods struggle with accurately identifying worsening trajectories and that increased session history can sometimes decrease prediction accuracy for trends. AI

IMPACT This benchmark could lead to more accurate AI-driven mental health monitoring and support systems.

RANK_REASON The item is a research paper introducing a new benchmark suite for a specific AI task. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New benchmark suite LongCounsel-8 aims to improve longitudinal depression tracking

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiayi Li, Zhaomin Wu, Bingsheng He ·

    LongCounsel-8: A Benchmark Suite for Longitudinal Depression Tracking from Multi-Session Counseling Dialogues

    arXiv:2609.03507v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tracking depression from multi-session counseling dialogues requires estimating both current symptom severity and how it changes across sessions. Yet progress on this task is constrained by the scarcity of longitudinal counseling …

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