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AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 286/10

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ESC-Skills: Discovering and Self-Evolving Skills for Emotional Support Conversations

ESC-Skills introduces a novel framework for emotional support conversation systems that moves beyond end-to-end generation to create interpretable, executable skills. The system discovers support interventions from successful and failed dialogues, organizes them into a skills bank with applicability conditions and risk assessments, then self-improves through multi-profile simulations and systematic failure analysis.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 116/10

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TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent

Researchers introduce TEA-Bench, the first interactive benchmark for evaluating how external tools improve emotional support conversation (ESC) systems. Testing nine LLMs reveals that tool augmentation reduces hallucination and improves support quality, but effectiveness depends heavily on model capacity—stronger models leverage tools more effectively than weaker ones.