The paper formalizes cognitive atrophy as a distinct process-level measure, introduces the Cognitive Atrophy Bench benchmark from 1,576 human counseling conversations, and reports moderate-to-high atrophy-aligned behaviors across five LLMs.
Position: Beyond assistance–reimagining llms as ethical and adaptive co-creators in mental health care
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TheraJudge, trained via preference optimization on human annotations, reaches high clinician agreement (ICC 0.87-0.95) and, when used by TheraAgent, raises human-rated therapeutic quality by 0.43 points on a 5-point scale with 94% recovery of low-quality responses.
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Towards Understanding and Measuring COGNITIVE ATROPHY in LLM Behaviour
The paper formalizes cognitive atrophy as a distinct process-level measure, introduces the Cognitive Atrophy Bench benchmark from 1,576 human counseling conversations, and reports moderate-to-high atrophy-aligned behaviors across five LLMs.
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Training Therapeutic Judges and Multi-Agent Systems for Human-Aligned Mental Health Support
TheraJudge, trained via preference optimization on human annotations, reaches high clinician agreement (ICC 0.87-0.95) and, when used by TheraAgent, raises human-rated therapeutic quality by 0.43 points on a 5-point scale with 94% recovery of low-quality responses.