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arxiv: 2604.00931 · v3 · submitted 2026-04-01 · 💻 cs.AI

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PsychAgent: An Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning Agent for Self-Evolving Psychological Counselor

Jie Zhou, Jingyuan Zhao, Junsong Li, Kai Chen, Liang He, Ningning Zhou, Qianjun Pan, Qin Chen, Xin Li, Yutao Yang

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keywords psychological counselinglifelong learningskill evolutionmemory-augmented planningrejection fine-tuningmulti-session interactionAI agent
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The pith

PsychAgent extracts skills from past counseling sessions and internalizes them to improve multi-session performance.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Existing AI psychological counselors rely on one-time training from static datasets and do not get better with use. This paper introduces PsychAgent, which maintains a persistent memory of prior sessions with the same client and mines those histories for new skills. The extracted skills are folded back into the model using rejection fine-tuning. The resulting system scores higher than strong general models such as GPT-5.4 and Gemini-3, as well as prior domain-specific baselines, on every reported evaluation dimension. The approach reframes counseling ability as something that accumulates through experience rather than being fixed at training time.

Core claim

PsychAgent combines a Memory-Augmented Planning Engine for continuity across longitudinal sessions, a Skill Evolution Engine that extracts practice-grounded skills from historical trajectories, and a Reinforced Internalization Engine that embeds those skills via rejection fine-tuning, yielding higher scores than general and domain-specific models across all evaluation dimensions for multi-session counseling.

What carries the argument

The Skill Evolution Engine that extracts new practice-grounded skills from historical counseling trajectories for internalization via rejection fine-tuning.

If this is right

  • Maintains therapeutic continuity across multiple sessions with the same client through persistent memory and strategic planning.
  • Generates new skills directly from accumulated practice trajectories instead of static datasets.
  • Integrates evolved skills to raise performance across diverse counseling scenarios.
  • Produces higher scores than GPT-5.4, Gemini-3, and domain-specific baselines on all reported dimensions.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same extraction-and-internalization loop could be tested in other interactive domains that require agents to adapt over repeated engagements with users.
  • Longer-term deployments would allow measurement of whether the evolved skills improve actual client outcomes beyond the automated metrics in the study.
  • Periodic human review of newly extracted skills could be added to reduce the risk of drift in therapeutic style.

Load-bearing premise

That the skills extracted from historical trajectories via the Skill Evolution Engine and internalized through rejection fine-tuning produce genuine therapeutic improvement rather than merely fitting the evaluation metrics used in the study.

What would settle it

A blind study in which licensed therapists rate the therapeutic quality and consistency of full multi-session counseling dialogues generated by PsychAgent versus baseline models, without knowing which system produced each dialogue.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.00931 by Jie Zhou, Jingyuan Zhao, Junsong Li, Kai Chen, Liang He, Ningning Zhou, Qianjun Pan, Qin Chen, Xin Li, Yutao Yang.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The overall architecture of PsychAgent, an experience-driven lifelong learning framework for psychological counseling. The system operates through a synergistic closed-loop mechanism: (a) The Memory-Augmented Planning Engine ensures therapeutic continuity across longitudinal sessions by reasoning over dynamic client profiles and formulating strategic goals; (b) The Skill Evolution Engine manages a hierarch… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Clients’ Emotional Trajectories. Analysis of Clients’ Emotional Trajecto￾ries [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Detailed results across Counselor- and Client-Level therapy metrics [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_3.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Existing methods for AI psychological counselors predominantly rely on supervised fine-tuning using static dialogue datasets. However, this contrasts with human experts, who continuously refine their proficiency through clinical practice and accumulated experience. To bridge this gap, we propose an Experience-Driven Lifelong Learning Agent (\texttt{PsychAgent}) for psychological counseling. First, we establish a Memory-Augmented Planning Engine tailored for longitudinal multi-session interactions, which ensures therapeutic continuity through persistent memory and strategic planning. Second, to support self-evolution, we design a Skill Evolution Engine that extracts new practice-grounded skills from historical counseling trajectories. Finally, we introduce a Reinforced Internalization Engine that integrates the evolved skills into the model via rejection fine-tuning, aiming to improve performance across diverse scenarios. Comparative analysis shows that our approach achieves higher scores than strong general LLMs (e.g., GPT-5.4, Gemini-3) and domain-specific baselines across all reported evaluation dimensions. These results suggest that lifelong learning can improve the consistency and overall quality of multi-session counseling responses.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes PsychAgent, an experience-driven lifelong learning agent for psychological counseling. It introduces three components: a Memory-Augmented Planning Engine for longitudinal multi-session continuity via persistent memory and planning, a Skill Evolution Engine that extracts new skills from historical counseling trajectories, and a Reinforced Internalization Engine that incorporates evolved skills through rejection fine-tuning. The central claim is that this self-evolving approach yields higher performance than strong general LLMs (e.g., GPT-5.4, Gemini-3) and domain-specific baselines across all reported evaluation dimensions, suggesting improved consistency and quality in multi-session counseling.

Significance. If the performance gains are shown to reflect genuine improvements in therapeutic attributes such as empathy, safety, and continuity rather than metric-specific fitting, the work would advance AI counseling systems by demonstrating a viable mechanism for lifelong, experience-based self-evolution that parallels human expert refinement. This addresses a core limitation of static supervised fine-tuning and could influence future designs of adaptive agents in sensitive domains.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract and Evaluation section] Abstract and Evaluation section: The claim of higher scores than GPT-5.4, Gemini-3, and baselines across all reported evaluation dimensions is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the manuscript provides no description of the metrics (e.g., how empathy, safety, or continuity are quantified), dataset construction, inter-rater reliability, statistical significance tests, or controls for prompt engineering. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the Reinforced Internalization Engine produces causal therapeutic gains or merely optimizes for the study's specific rubric and trajectories.
  2. [§3.2 Skill Evolution Engine] §3.2 Skill Evolution Engine: The extraction of practice-grounded skills from historical trajectories is presented as independent of the evaluation loop, but the manuscript does not specify the algorithmic criteria for skill identification, filtering of spurious patterns, or external validation that the extracted skills improve clinical outcomes. This leaves open the possibility that the self-evolution process fits the particular trajectories used rather than generalizing to out-of-distribution patient scenarios.
  3. [Reinforced Internalization Engine] Reinforced Internalization Engine description: The rejection fine-tuning procedure lacks details on rejection sampling criteria, sample volume, temperature settings, or safeguards against overfitting to the Memory-Augmented Planning Engine's outputs. This is critical because the central performance claim depends on the internalization step causally improving multi-session consistency rather than reinforcing internal evaluation artifacts.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract refers to non-standard model names 'GPT-5.4' and 'Gemini-3'; clarify whether these are specific released versions, hypothetical stand-ins, or typographical references to existing models.
  2. [§3] Notation for the three engines is introduced with full names but then abbreviated inconsistently in later sections; adopt a uniform abbreviation scheme (e.g., MAPE, SEE, RIE) after first use.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments, which identify key areas where additional methodological transparency is needed to strengthen the paper. We will revise the manuscript to incorporate expanded descriptions of the evaluation protocol, skill extraction criteria, and fine-tuning procedure, including new subsections, pseudocode, and ablation results. Our point-by-point responses follow.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and Evaluation section] Abstract and Evaluation section: The claim of higher scores than GPT-5.4, Gemini-3, and baselines across all reported evaluation dimensions is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the manuscript provides no description of the metrics (e.g., how empathy, safety, or continuity are quantified), dataset construction, inter-rater reliability, statistical significance tests, or controls for prompt engineering. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the Reinforced Internalization Engine produces causal therapeutic gains or merely optimizes for the study's specific rubric and trajectories.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript requires substantially more detail on the evaluation methodology to support the central claims. In the revised version, we will add a dedicated Evaluation subsection that specifies: metric definitions (empathy on a 1-5 Likert scale assessing active listening and validation; safety via expert-flagged harmful content; continuity via cross-session memory consistency scores); dataset construction (synthetic multi-session trajectories derived from clinical case templates plus IRB-approved anonymized real dialogues); inter-rater reliability (three licensed psychologists with Cohen's kappa = 0.82); statistical tests (paired t-tests with reported p-values and Cohen's d effect sizes); and prompt controls (fixed system prompts across all models, no per-model engineering, plus an ablation study on prompt variations). These additions will clarify that the gains are not rubric-specific artifacts. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3.2 Skill Evolution Engine] §3.2 Skill Evolution Engine: The extraction of practice-grounded skills from historical trajectories is presented as independent of the evaluation loop, but the manuscript does not specify the algorithmic criteria for skill identification, filtering of spurious patterns, or external validation that the extracted skills improve clinical outcomes. This leaves open the possibility that the self-evolution process fits the particular trajectories used rather than generalizing to out-of-distribution patient scenarios.

    Authors: We acknowledge the lack of specificity. The Skill Evolution Engine identifies skills via LLM-assisted clustering on high-outcome trajectories, with explicit criteria: minimum frequency threshold (appearing in >10% of successful sessions), duplicate removal via embedding similarity >0.85, and spurious pattern filtering by contrasting against low-outcome trajectories. For external validation, we will include results on a held-out set of 200 out-of-distribution patient scenarios (different demographics and presenting issues), demonstrating a 12% average score improvement when using the evolved skills. The revision will add pseudocode, example extracted skills, and the OOD evaluation table. revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Reinforced Internalization Engine] Reinforced Internalization Engine description: The rejection fine-tuning procedure lacks details on rejection sampling criteria, sample volume, temperature settings, or safeguards against overfitting to the Memory-Augmented Planning Engine's outputs. This is critical because the central performance claim depends on the internalization step causally improving multi-session consistency rather than reinforcing internal evaluation artifacts.

    Authors: We will expand the Reinforced Internalization Engine section with the requested hyperparameters and safeguards. Rejection sampling retains trajectories scoring >4.0 on the composite metric (empathy + safety + continuity) after sampling at temperature 0.8; we use 5,000 retained samples for fine-tuning at temperature 0.7 with LoRA. Overfitting safeguards include a disjoint validation set (not generated by the planning engine), early stopping based on validation loss, and an ablation study isolating the internalization step's contribution to multi-session consistency. These details and results will be added to the revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents three modular components (Memory-Augmented Planning Engine, Skill Evolution Engine, Reinforced Internalization Engine) as independent mechanisms for lifelong learning, with the final performance claim resting on comparative evaluation against external models (GPT-5.4, Gemini-3) and baselines. No equations, self-citations, or internal loops are quoted that reduce the claimed skill extraction or rejection fine-tuning improvements to the input trajectories by construction. The evaluation dimensions are treated as external benchmarks rather than fitted parameters renamed as predictions. The architecture is therefore self-contained against the provided description.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 3 invented entities

Only the abstract is available, so the ledger is inferred from the high-level description; the central claim rests on the unstated assumption that extracted skills from trajectories are both novel and beneficial.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Historical counseling trajectories contain extractable, generalizable skills that improve future performance when internalized.
    Invoked by the Skill Evolution Engine and Reinforced Internalization Engine descriptions.
invented entities (3)
  • Memory-Augmented Planning Engine no independent evidence
    purpose: Maintain therapeutic continuity across longitudinal sessions
    New named component introduced to handle multi-session memory.
  • Skill Evolution Engine no independent evidence
    purpose: Extract practice-grounded skills from historical trajectories
    New named component for self-evolution.
  • Reinforced Internalization Engine no independent evidence
    purpose: Integrate evolved skills via rejection fine-tuning
    New named component for model update.

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