AI RESEARCH

Synthetic or Authentic? Building Mental Patient Simulators from Longitudinal Evidence

arXiv CS.CL

ArXi:2603.22704v1 Announce Type: new Patient simulation is essential for developing and evaluating mental health dialogue systems. As most existing approaches rely on snapshot-style prompts with limited profile information, homogeneous behaviors and incoherent disease progression in multi-turn interactions have become key chellenges.