When Less Is More: An Empirical Study of Minimal Responses in Counseling Dialogues and the Behavior of LLMs

arXiv:2608.24080 · cs.CL, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-08-25 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-08-25

Updated: 2026-08-29

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 5× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Verification — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Adaptation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Digital Twin — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Evaluation Dimensions — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Grounding — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Pragmatics — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantization — 1× in this paper · explained in 12 episodes
• alpha — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode

Sources

• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• ChatCounselor: A Large Language Models for Mental Health Support
• EmoStage: A Framework for Accurate Empathetic Response Generation via Perspective-Taking and Phase Recognition
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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