| Challenge: | Current LLMs struggle to consistently provide effective responses to client speeches due to the lack of supervision from high-quality real psycho-counseling data. |
| Approach: | They propose to use a dataset to evaluate therapists' responses to client speeches using a set of professional and comprehensive principles to evaluate their responses. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves an impressive win rate of 87% against GPT-4o. |
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