Iryna Gurevych

From Symptom Networks to Conversation Networks: A Cross-Sectional Study Mapping the Topology of Suicide-Related Clinical Dialogue

ODRA: Synthesizing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions with Structured Chain-Of-Thought and Dynamic Patient Resistance

ODRA is introduced, a novel framework for synthesizing therapy dialogues through a Chain-of-Thought (CoT) strategy grounded in foundational CBT guidelines, which significantly outperforms existing methods across therapeutic skills, CBT alignment, and patient behavioral fidelity.

Sparse Autoencoders Encode Both Concepts and Functions: The Downstream Geometry of Feature Effects

FEGA is introduced, an unsupervised framework that removes the same active SAE feature across contexts and analyzes the resulting cloud of logit changes, showing that a feature can be interpretable and causally relevant without providing a stable direction for steering.

Graph2Counsel: Clinically Grounded Synthetic Counseling Dialogue Generation from Client Psychological Graphs

Graph2Counsel is introduced, a framework for generating synthetic counseling sessions grounded in Client Psychological Graphs that encode relationships among clients'thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and Therapy-Eval is introduced, a multi-turn evaluation framework, and the effectiveness of the fine-tuned model in rea...

MAGneT: Coordinated Multi-Agent Generation of Synthetic Multi-Turn Mental Health Counseling Sessions

The growing demand for scalable psychological counseling highlights the need for high-quality, privacy-compliant data, yet such data remains scarce. Here we introduce MAGneT, a novel multi-agent framework for synthetic psychological counseling session generation that decomposes counselor response generation into coordi...