Psyche-R1: Towards Reliable Psychological LLMs through Unified Empathy, Expertise, and Reasoning

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2508.10848v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Amidst a shortage of qualified mental health professionals, the integration of large language models (LLMs) into psychological applications offers a promising way to alleviate the growing burden of mental health disorders. Recent reasoning-augmented LLMs have achieved remarkable performance in mathematics and programming, while research in the psychological domain has predominantly emphasized emotional support and empathetic dialogue, with limited attention to reasoning mechanisms that are beneficial to generating accurate responses. Therefore, in this paper, we propose \logopsyche\textit{Psyche-R1}, the first Chinese psychological LLM that jointly integrates empathy, psychological expertise, and reasoning, built upon a novel data curatio