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AI systems improve self-harm risk screening with adaptive multi-agent LLMs

Researchers have developed a new statistical framework for multi-agent LLM systems used in critical applications like self-harm risk assessment. This framework, structured as a directed acyclic graph (DAG), offers adaptive decision-making to improve reliability over traditional methods. It incorporates tighter confidence bounds for individual agents and a bandit-based sampling strategy that adjusts to input difficulty, leading to a significant reduction in false positives. AI

IMPACT Improves precision in safety-critical LLM applications by reducing false positives without sacrificing recall.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new statistical framework for multi-agent LLM systems.

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AI systems improve self-harm risk screening with adaptive multi-agent LLMs

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Meghana Karnam, Ananya Joshi ·

    Reliable Self-Harm Risk Screening via Adaptive Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    arXiv:2604.22154v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Emerging AI systems in behavioral health and psychiatry use multi-step or multi-agent LLM pipelines for tasks like assessing self-harm risk and screening for depression. However, common evaluation approaches, like LLM-as-a-judge, do…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Ananya Joshi ·

    Reliable Self-Harm Risk Screening via Adaptive Multi-Agent LLM Systems

    Emerging AI systems in behavioral health and psychiatry use multi-step or multi-agent LLM pipelines for tasks like assessing self-harm risk and screening for depression. However, common evaluation approaches, like LLM-as-a-judge, do not indicate when a decision is reliable or how…