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| license: mit |
| tags: |
| - text-generation |
| - dialogue-modeling |
| - mental-health |
| - therapy |
| - empathetic-ai |
| datasets: |
| - samdak93/EmpathicConversations |
| language: |
| - en |
| model-index: |
| - name: Solacia |
| results: [] |
| base_model: |
| - openai-community/gpt2 |
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| # Solacia: An Empathic AI Therapy Assistant |
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| **Solacia** is a fine-tuned language model designed to provide supportive, emotionally aware responses in therapeutic or self-help conversations. It is built using a curated dataset of real-world mental health dialogue scenarios aimed at simulating the empathy and insight of a human counselor. |
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| ## Model Details |
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| - **Model Name**: Solacia |
| - **Author**: [samdak93](https://huggingface.co/samdak93) |
| - **Language**: English |
| - **License**: MIT |
| - **Base Model**: *[gpt2]* |
| - **Training Dataset**: [EmpathicConversations](https://huggingface.co/datasets/samdak93/EmpathicConversations) |
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| ## Use Cases |
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| - Mental health support (non-diagnostic) |
| - Journaling companions |
| - Emotional support bots |
| - Therapeutic conversation simulation |
| - Training other empathy-oriented models |
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| > ⚠️ **Disclaimer**: This model is not a replacement for professional therapy. It should only be used for research, experimentation, or wellness assistance. |
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| ## Example Input |
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| **User**: |
| > I'm feeling like everything is too much and I can't take it anymore... |
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| **Solacia**: |
| > I'm really sorry you're feeling this way. You're not alone, and your emotions are valid. Take a deep breath — would you like to talk more about what’s overwhelming you? |
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| ## Limitations |
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| - Not a licensed therapist. |
| - May produce inappropriate or hallucinated responses if used improperly. |
| - Should not be relied on in crisis situations. |
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| ## Citation |
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| If you use this model, please consider citing the dataset and repository: |
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| ```bibtex |
| @misc{samdak93_solacia_2025, |
| author = {samdak93}, |
| title = {Solacia: An Empathic AI Therapy Assistant}, |
| year = {2025}, |
| url = {https://huggingface.co/samdak93/solacia} |
| } |
