MAGneT

MAGneT is a synthetic counseling session dataset generated using a novel Multi-Agent framework including: specialized response agents (reflection, questioning, solutions, normalizing, psycho-education), a technique agent, a CBT agent, and a response generation agent. The generations are conditioned on client profiles taken from Lee et al., 2024). Unlike prior single-agent approaches, MAGneT better captures the structure and nuance of real counseling. Empirically, MAGneT substantially outperforms existing methods: experts prefer MAGneT-generated sessions in 77.2% of cases, and sessions generated by MAGneT yield 3.2% higher general counseling skills and 4.3% higher CBT-specific skills on cognitive therapy rating scale (CTRS). A open source Llama3-8B-Instruct model fine-tuned on MAGneT-generated data also outperforms models fine-tuned using baseline synthetic datasets by 6.9% on average on CTRS.

Identifier
Source https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/handle/tudatalib/5072
Related Identifier Cites https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-emnlp.832/
Metadata Access https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/server/oai/openairedata?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de:tudatalib/5072
Provenance
Creator Mandal, Aishik; Chakraborty, Tanmoy; Gurevych, Iryna
Publisher Technische Universität Darmstadt
Contributor Technische Universität Darmstadt
Publication Year 2026
Rights GPL - GNU General Public License 2.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html
OpenAccess true
Contact https://tudatalib.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/docs/en/kontakt/
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/json
Size 10.61 MB
Version 0.1
Discipline Other