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This paper presents a system for the CLPsych
2026 Shared Task on longitudinal mental
health modeling from social media timelines,

grounded in the MIND framework (Atzil-
Slonim, 2025). MIND conceptualizes mental

health as evolving self-states defined by Affect,

Behavior, Cognition, and Desire (ABCD), pro-
viding a structured lens on mental health trajec-
tories. The system centers on a theory-explicit

prompting framework for structured sequence

summarization (Task 3.1) and recurrent dy-
namic signature extraction (Task 3.2), encoding

the full ABCD taxonomy directly into the LLM

prompt to ensure clinically grounded, inter-
pretable outputs. A three-stage pipeline infers

a direction-of-change label per sequence, pro-
duces structured ABCD summaries with few-
shot exemplar augmentation, and aggregates

these summaries to derive cross-individual re-
current patterns. The system ranks first on

deterioration-related recurrent signatures and

second overall, achieving the top Fit and Speci-
ficity scores in Task 3.2, demonstrating the ben-
efits of explicit clinical grounding for concep-
tual accuracy.

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Theory-Explicit Prompting for MIND Self-States: Hierarchical LLMs and Dynamic Signature Extraction in Mental Health Timelines

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This paper describes the StateOfMIND team
submission to Task 1 of the CLPsych 2026

shared task on identifying adaptive and mal-
adaptive psychological self-states in social me-
dia posts. For each post, the task requires

systems to predict which fine-grained subele-
ments of a self-state are expressed (Task 1.1)

and to rate how strongly adaptive and maladap-
tive states are present (Task 1.2). We address

both subtasks with a retrieval-augmented in-
context learning ensemble of two open-weight

LLMs, Qwen3.5-27B and Mistral-Small-3.2-

24B-Instruct. Our approach combines label-
aware retrieval of in-context examples, a three-
prompt decomposition targeting adaptive con-
tent and the Affect element, and subtask-
specific ensemble rules that favor precision for

subelement classification and recall for pres-
ence rating. Our best submissions rank 2nd

of 17 teams on Task 1.1 (Macro F1 = 0.441)
and 5th of 17 teams on Task 1.2 (RMSE =

0.994), with ablations showing retrieval and en-
sembling as the largest drivers of performance.

Self-State Identification with Retrieved In-Context Examples and Open-Weight LLMs

We describe the Meronym Labs system for
the CLPsych 2026 shared task. Our approach
uses retrieval-augmented in-context learning
with frozen LLMs throughout, requiring no
fine-tuning. Tasks 1 and 2 use a single
Qwen 3.5 27B call per post/timeline with static
and dynamically retrieved examples. Task 3.1
uses a five-agent agentic pipeline including

rule-based agents for change type and direc-
tion, LLM agents for dynamics extraction

and summary writing, and a validator all aug-
mented with NLI-based candidate re-ranking

and iterative contradiction reduction. The sys-
tem ranked 1st on Task 1.2 (RMSE 0.917)

and Task 3.1 (score rank average 4.00), 3rd
on Task 1.1 (F1 0.420), and 8th on Task 2
(F1 0.466).

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