Selected Publications

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* denotes equal contribution from indicated authors.

Science of measurement for AI agents

AI Agents are Sensitive to Nudges2026PNAS
Manuel Cherep, Pattie Maes, Nikhil Singh
Visual Persuasion: What Influences Decisions of Vision-Language Models?2026ICML
Manuel Cherep*, Pranav M R*, Pattie Maes, Nikhil Singh
Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests2026ICML
Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, Pattie Maes
Reinforcement World Model Learning for LLM-based Agents2026arXiv
Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu, Yelong Shen, Pengcheng He, Suman Nath, Nikhil Singh, Jiangfeng Gao, Zhou Yu
A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments2026ICLR
Manuel Cherep, Chengtian Ma, Abigail Xu, Maya Shaked, Pattie Maes, Nikhil Singh
How do World Models and Policies Compose in LLM Agents? A Joint Spectral and Behavioral Account2026EMNLP Findings
Ruize Xu, Xiao Yu, Yujin Tang, Chenming Shang, Nikhil Singh
DMV-Bench: Diagnosing Long-Horizon Multimodal Agents' Visual Memory with Incidental Cue Injection2026EMNLP
Yujin Tang, Chenming Shang, Ruize Xu, Nikhil Singh
Superficial Alignment and Subtle Divergence in LLM Decision-Making2024NeurIPS BehavioralML
Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, Pattie Maes

Science of AI augmentation for human capacity

If Only My CGM Could Speak: A Privacy-Preserving Agent for Question Answering over Continuous Glucose Data2026ACL Findings
Yanjun Cui, Ali Emami, Temiloluwa Prioleau*, Nikhil Singh*
Discovering and Steering Interpretable Concepts in Large Generative Music Models2026ICLR
Nikhil Singh*, Manuel Cherep*, Pattie Maes
RIME: Enabling Large-Scale Agentic Music Post-Production2026ICML ML4Audio
Noah Schaffer, Nikhil Singh
Dual-Contrastive Sparse Autoencoders Reveal Features of Musical Interpretation2026ICML MechInterp
Jan Chen, Manuel Cherep, Pattie Maes, Nikhil Singh
Creative Text-to-Audio Generation via Synthesizer Programming2024ICML
Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, Jessica Shand
FigurA11y: AI Assistance for Writing Scientific Alt Text2024IUI
Nikhil Singh, Lucy Lu Wang, Jonathan Bragg
Ellie Talks About the Weather: Toward Evaluating the Expressive and Enrichment Potential of a Tablet-Based Speech Board in a Single Goffin’s Cockatoo2024CHI
Jennifer Cunha, Corinne C Renguette, Nikhil Singh, Lily Stella, Megan Mcmahon, Hao Jin, Rebecca Kleinberger
Investigating the Physiological and Psychological Effect of an Interactive Musical Interface for Stress and Anxiety Reduction2023CHI-LBW
Kimaya Lecamwasam, Samantha Gutierrez Arango, Nikhil Singh, Neska Elhaouij, Max Addae, Rosalind Picard
Where to hide a stolen elephant: Leaps in creative writing with multimodal machine intelligence2022TOCHI
Nikhil Singh*, Guillermo Bernal*, Daria Savchenko*, Elena L Glassman
A neural network solves, explains, and generates university math problems by program synthesis and few-shot learning at human level2022PNAS
Iddo Drori, Sarah Zhang, Reece Shuttleworth, Leonard Tang, Albert Lu, Elizabeth Ke, Kevin Liu, Linda Chen, Sunny Tran, Newman Cheng, Roman Wang, Nikhil Singh, Taylor L Patti, Jayson Lynch, Avi Shporer, Nakul Verma, Eugene Wu, Gilbert Strang
The Sound Sketchpad: Expressively Combining Large and Diverse Audio Collections2021IUI
Nikhil Singh

Human interaction with AI systems

Bridging the Data Provenance Gap Across Text, Speech and Video2025ICLR
Shayne Longpre, Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep, Kushagra Tiwary, Joanna Materzynska, William Brannon, Robert Mahari, Manan Dey, Mohammed Hamdy, Nayan Saxena, Ahmad Anis, Emad Alghamdi, Vu Minh Chien, Naana Obeng-Marnu, Da Yin, Kun Qian, Yizhi Li, Minnie Liang, An Dinh, Shrestha Mohanty, Deividas Mataciunas, Tobin South, Jianguo Zhang, Ariel N Lee, Campbell S Lund, Christopher Klamm, Damien Sileo, Diganta Misra, Enrico Shippole, Kevin Klyman, Lester JV Miranda, Niklas Muennighoff, Seonghyeon Ye, Seungone Kim, Vipul Gupta, Vivek Sharma, Xuhui Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Luis Villa, Stella Biderman, Alex Pentland, Sara Hooker, Jad Kabbara
Human detection of political speech deepfakes across transcripts, audio, and video2024Nature Communications
Matthew Groh*, Aruna Sankaranarayanan*, Nikhil Singh, Dong Young Kim, Andrew Lippman, Rosalind Picard
Consent in Crisis: The Rapid Decline of the AI Data Commons2024NeurIPS D&B Track
Shayne Longpre, Robert Mahari, Ariel Lee, Campbell Lund, Hamidah Oderinwale, William Brannon, Nayan Saxena, Naana Obeng-Marnu, Tobin South, Cole Hunter, Kevin Klyman, Christopher Klamm, Hailey Schoelkopf, Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep, Ahmad Anis, An Dinh, Caroline Chitongo, Da Yin, Damien Sileo, Deividas Mataciunas, Diganta Misra, Emad Alghamdi, Enrico Shippole, Jianguo Zhang, Joanna Materzynska, Kun Qian, Kush Tiwary, Lester Miranda, Manan Dey, Minnie Liang, Mohammed Hamdy, Niklas Muennighoff, Seonghyeon Ye, Seungone Kim, Shrestha Mohanty, Vipul Gupta, Vivek Sharma, Vu Minh Chien, Xuhui Zhou, Yizhi Li, Caiming Xiong, Luis Villa, Stella Biderman, Hanlin Li, Daphne Ippolito, Sara Hooker, Jad Kabbara, Sandy Pentland

Further work

Improving Information Extraction with Learned Queries2026EMNLP Findings
Contrastive Learning from Synthetic Audio Doppelgangers2025ICLR
Looking similar sounding different: Leveraging counterfactual cross-modal pairs for audiovisual representation learning2024CVPR
Articulatory Synthesis of Speech and Diverse Vocal Sounds via Optimization2024NeurIPS Audio Imagination Workshop
SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX2023AES
Voice at NIME: a Taxonomy of New Interfaces for Vocal Musical Expression2022NIME
Image2Reverb: Cross-Modal Reverb Impulse Response Synthesis2021ICCV
Image2Lego: Customized LEGO Set Generation from Images2021arXiv