MentalArena: Self-play Training of Language Models for Diagnosis and Treatment of Mental Health Disorders

Understand

Mental health disorders are one of the most serious diseases in the world.

• Most people with such a disease lack access to adequate care, which highlights the importance of training models for the diagnosis and treatment of mental health disorders.
• However, in the mental health domain, privacy concerns limit the accessibility of personalized treatment data, making it challenging to build powerful models.
• In this paper, we introduce MentalArena, a self-play framework to train language models by generating domain-specific personalized data, where we obtain a better model capable of making a personalized diagnosis and treatment (as a therapist) and providing information (as a patient).