articleMay 8, 2024GOLD OA

MentaLLaMA: Interpretable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media with Large Language Models

University of Manchester · Wuhan University · +1 more institution

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Abstract

As an integral part of people's daily lives, social media is becoming a rich source for automatic mental health analysis. As traditional discriminative methods bear poor generalization ability and low interpretability, the recent large language models (LLMs) have been explored for interpretable mental health analysis on social media, which aims to provide detailed explanations along with predictions in zero-shot or few-shot settings. The results show that LLMs still achieve unsatisfactory classification performance in a zero-shot/few-shot manner, which further significantly affects the quality of the generated explanations. Domain-specific finetuning is an effective solution, but faces two critical challenges:…

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