Mental-R1: Aligning LLM Reasoning for Mental Health Assessment

arXiv:2606.13176 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-11 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-11

Updated: 2026-10-01

Code: https://github.com/xin-wang18/Mental-R1

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Cognitive Relative Policy Optimization — 1× in this paper
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• Beyond Empathy: Integrating Diagnostic and Therapeutic Reasoning with Large Language Models for Mental Health Counseling
• EmoBench-M: Benchmarking Emotional Intelligence for Multimodal Large Language Models
• REINFORCE++: Stabilizing Critic-Free Policy Optimization with Global Advantage Normalization
• LLM Post-Training: A Deep Dive into Reasoning Large Language Models
• DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Gemma 2: Improving Open Language Models at a Practical Size
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale
• A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

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