Generating empathetic responses through emotion tracking and constraint guidance

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61672144, 61872072).

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests or financial conflicts to disclose.

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