SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE

Aligning with Lived Experience: Heterogeneous Benefits of Fine Tuning in Mental Health Support Generation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

As access to professional mental healthcare remains limited, many individuals turn to online platforms such as Reddit to seek peer support situated within human lived experience. However, a significant portion of such queries go unanswered, presenting an opportunity for using Large Language Models (LLMs) to fill this gap. While LLMs have demonstrated strong performance on clinical benchmarks, their ability to generate lived-experience informed and community-aligned peer support is underexplored. Addressing this gap, we introduce the COmmunity-centered Peer Engaged Support (COPES) dataset and a

Read original source ↗ Open in workspace

recordType

paper

region

Global