Supervised Learning and Large Language Model Benchmarks on Mental Health Datasets: Cognitive Distortions and Suicidal Risks in Chinese Social Media

Kavli Affiliate: Dan Luo

| First 5 Authors: Hongzhi Qi, Qing Zhao, Changwei Song, Wei Zhai, Dan Luo

| Summary:

In the realm of social media, users frequently convey personal sentiments,
with some potentially indicating cognitive distortions or suicidal tendencies.
Timely recognition of such signs is pivotal for effective interventions. In
response, we introduce two novel annotated datasets from Chinese social media,
focused on cognitive distortions and suicidal risk classification. We propose a
comprehensive benchmark using both supervised learning and large language
models, especially from the GPT series, to evaluate performance on these
datasets. To assess the capabilities of the large language models, we employed
three strategies: zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning. Furthermore, we deeply
explored and analyzed the performance of these large language models from a
psychological perspective, shedding light on their strengths and limitations in
identifying and understanding complex human emotions. Our evaluations
underscore a performance difference between the two approaches, with the models
often challenged by subtle category distinctions. While GPT-4 consistently
delivered strong results, GPT-3.5 showed marked improvement in suicide risk
classification after fine-tuning. This research is groundbreaking in its
evaluation of large language models for Chinese social media tasks,
accentuating the models’ potential in psychological contexts. All datasets and
code are made available.

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