Aligning with Lived Experience: Heterogeneous Benefits of Fine Tuning in Mental Health Support Generation
Middle author, Georgia Institute of Technology. Introduces the COPES dataset and a three-axis evaluation of LLM peer-support alignment with lived experience and community perspectives. Post-training (SFT/DPO) improves Strategy Alignment and Emotion & Tone, heterogeneously across subreddits. DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2609.21075.