Empathetic AI learns to adapt support priorities as conversations evolve

CARE dynamically weights cognitive, affective, and proactive empathy at each dialogue turn to improve response quality.

Chinese Tech
Pengyu Huang · Zhiyuan Han · Wenwen Tong · Hewei Guo · Jiangnan Chen · Sirui Chen · +3 more

University of Science and Technology of China · SenseTime Research · Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Hefei Comprehensive National Science Center · Tongji University

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The authors identify a fundamental mismatch in empathetic reinforcement learning: reward specifications remain fixed while support needs change.

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Context-adaptive empathy rubrics improve reinforcement-learned dialogue systems by changing cognitive, affective, and proactive support priorities as conversations evolve.

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