@article{kardiar1unleashingllmstoreasontowardunde,
  title = {Kardia-R1: Unleashing LLMs to Reason toward Understanding and Empathy for Emotional Support via Rubric-as-Judge Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Jiahao Yuan and Zhiqing Cui and Hanqing Wang and Yuansheng Gao and Yucheng Zhou and Usman Naseem},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2512.01282},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01282},
}