Manuel Cherep
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mcherep.bsky.social
Manuel Cherep
@mcherep.bsky.social
PhD student at MIT working on behavioral machine learning.
🚨New Preprint 🚨

Current agent evals mostly measure competence, but miss behavior e.g. are their decisions stable, rational, manipulable, human-like?

We introduce ABxLAB, a framework for studying agent behavior. Using it we create an agentic consumer behavior benchmark.

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October 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
✨Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgängers #ICLR2025✨ w/
@nikhilsinghmus.bsky.social

Our method learns useful audio representations with randomly synthesized sounds (often better than real data!)

🌐Project: doppelgangers.media.mit.edu
📄Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05923

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March 12, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Excited to present our new paper on nudging LLMs (👉🤖) as a spotlight talk at the NeurIPS Behavioral ML Workshop! @neuripsconf.bsky.social

w/ Nikhil Singh* (@nikhilsinghmus.bsky.social) and Pattie Maes

🔗 openreview.net/forum?id=chb...

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November 26, 2024 at 11:07 PM