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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Visited CMU for the first time last week to give a talk for the Graphics Colloquium. So much cool stuff happening there. Thanks you @junyanz.bsky.social and Ioannis Gkioulekas for inviting me! youtu.be/0-diCMEpOuw...

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Graphics Colloquium : Maneesh Agrawala : Making is Decision Making

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Excited to see this finally in print! Scientific American (@sciam.bsky.social) named Lvmin Zhang (@lvminzhang.bsky.social) to it's inaugural list of young scientists recognizing his work on developing AI for digital creation. Congratulations to Lvmin! www.scientificamerican.com/article/lvmi...

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Lvmin Zhang: Young American Scientist creating AI tools to help digital artists

Developing artificial-intelligence systems to enhance digital art creation

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yaelvinker.bsky.social @yaelvinker.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

A big thank you to our amazing organizing team: Mia Tang, Kartik Chandra, Maneesh Agrawala, Judith Fan, and Aaron Hertzmann. And to our sponsors AdobeResearch and Reve for supporting us! We are excited to keep this interdisciplinary conversation going at #SIGGRAPH2026. See you there!

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Self-consistency has proven to be an effective method for improving LLM performance on tasks with language outputs (e.g. QA). We sample multiple LLM responses and group them to find the most consistent answer. But how can we apply self-consistency to visual domains? vimeo.com/1178981854?f...

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Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification

Video figure of the CVPR 2026 paper Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification

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Judy Fan @judithfan.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

New paper in press at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts w/ @aaronhertzmann.com interrogating the information bottlenecks that make the drawing of objects & scenes from observation so difficult. This was a really fun paper to write together--we hope it'll be a fun read, too!

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Michal Migurski @mike.teczno.com · 16/03/2026

Nice spatial study of London that goes a level deeper than what principal component analysis reveals

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Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Nice Commentary on HCI Education in the Jan issue of Interactions Magazine that mentions our Gulf of Envisoning Work with Maneesh @magrawala.bsky.social Chris Pondoc, Roy Pea, and Colleen Seifert: interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

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Sarah E. Chasins @schasins.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

New demo! youtu.be/rCPLSr79aGg Use Cartokit to map your data using familiar GUI-style interactions—and let Cartokit write the equivalent code for you. Try it out at alpha.cartokit.dev.

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Cartokit: A Geo Tool That Writes Code

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Didn't expect to run into Chernoff faces in a scifi book about the nature of consciousness and a world where transhumans live alongside vampires. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsi... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernof...

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Blindsight (Watts novel) - Wikipedia

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Rune @runefar.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

that is also why i asked about comfyui,regional prompting and controlnet becuse in relation to 1 those and things like img2img do allow for more expression and control then there are project like that by chicano artist coco which are more in depth www.youtube.com/watch?v=envM...

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A Love Letter to LA | Behind The Scenes

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Excited to get back to UC Berkeley this Wed Nov 19. I'll be speaking in the EECS colloquium 4-5pm Soda Hall with a talk entitled: Making is Decision Making Abstract and directions are at this link: events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/3...

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EECS Colloquium | Making is Decision Making

Dedicated to hosting presentations at the intersection of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the EECS Colloquium offers a mix of short ta...

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

MoVer is a Motion Verification DSL that can check if an LLM-generated motion graphics animation match your text prompts! @jiajuma.bsky.social presented this work at SIGGRAPH 2025 making it easier for designers to specify and verify complex animations. Paper, code and dataset: mover-dsl.github.io

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Oof -- still learning to post proper links on Bluesky.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Artists often explore designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration Updated link: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter... w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Guo and Jinbo Xing

Teaser for Generating Past and Futures of Digital Painting Processes Paper.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Artists often explore possible designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration Paper and code: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter... w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Geo and Jinbo Xing

Generating alternative futures and pasts for digital drawing processes.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If you need to segment sketches into objects, Mia Tang has the tool for you. Enables re-composing the sketch after drawing. She presented her work on InkLayer at SIGGRAPH 2025. Code, data and paper are here: inklayer.github.io w/ @yaelvinker.bsky.social Chuan Yan, Lvmin Zhang

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

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Speech and Language Processing

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Was recently introduced to Brian Marick's Oddly Influenced podcast. It's an amazing mix of ideas connecting software engineering, cognitive psychology and history of science. Highly recommended! Has significantly extended my to-read list. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

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Oddly Influenced

Technology Podcast · A podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside software to software.

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is a good article and I completely agree with its argument for comprehensible research.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

For context, AlphaFold is great, but is not a magic wand for making new drugs. (But Hassabis's latest claims go far beyond the hype that accompanied AlphaFold at the time.) www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

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DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?

The AI-based breakthrough, like the sequencing of the human genome, may not turbocharge the development of new drugs as some hope. But as a resource f...

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James Tompkin @jamestompkin.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

The AI for Content Creation workshop is kicking off today at #CVPR2025 - Grand Ballroom A1 - @magrawala.bsky.social Kai Zhang (Adobe), Charles Herrmann (Google), Mark Boss (Stability AI), Yutong Bai (UC Berkeley), Cherry Zhao (Adobe), Ishan Misra (Meta) and @jonbarron.bsky.social ! See you soon!

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

At CVPR in Nashville for the Workshop on AI for Content Creation. I'll be speaking at 9am tomorrow 6/12. ai4cc.net

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AI for Content Creation Workshop

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

There’s still time! If you are in Toronto I’d love to see you

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uoftdsi.bsky.social @uoftdsi.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Join DSI and @uoftmscac.bsky.social for an upcoming #DataSciencesSpeakerSeries talk: "Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces" w/ Prof. @magrawala.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social 🗓️Friday, April 14 🔗Info & reg: datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

What will be the linchpin for AI dominance? Read our NSF/OSTP recommendations written with Goodfire's Tom McGrath tommcgrath.github.io, Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann cogconfluence.com, MIT's Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social TLDR; Dominance comes from **interpretability** 🧵 ↘️

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

In Barbados for the Bellairs workshop on computer animation!

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International Conference on 3D Vision @3dvconf.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hello Bluesky! 🔵 We start our account by having our third guess for Ask Me Anything session #3DV2025AMA! Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social from Cornell & Google DeepMind! 🌟 🕒 You have now 24 HOURS to ask him anything — drop your questions in the comments below! Keep it engaging but respectful!

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Shriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 21/04/2024

3/ Domain-specific visualizations. A pair of pictures should say it all. What do you think the left picture is about? How about the right one? (Hint: they're the "same picture", yet obviously they're not. A lot more to say here!) ↵

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Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Check out our paper for details on the cognitive gaps, mental models, and human theory of mind of LLMs and recommendations for designers. Thanks to my amazing coauthors - @magrawala.bsky.social, Roy Pea, Chris Pondoc, Colleen Seifert t.co/QmZEKpwyhZ

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Bridging the Gulf of Envisioning: Cognitive Design Challenges in...

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit dynamic capabilities and appear to comprehend complex and ambiguous natural language prompts. However, calibrating LLM interactions is challenging for...

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 19/03/2024

I'll be speaking at Univ. of Toronto's Data Science Institute next Mon Mar 25. You can still register! datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m... www.eventbrite.ca/e/unpredicta...

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Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces– Prof. Maneesh Agrawala

Data Sciences Speaker Series with Prof. Maneesh Agrawala

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Hari Subramonyan @subramonyam.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

New work from my lab looking at ways to engage with teachers and students early on the machine learning development process to build AI powered education technology. We will present this work at CSCW2024. hai.stanford.edu/news/data-ce...

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A Data-Centered Approach to Education AI

Useful models need better data. Stanford scholars explore a path to ensure domain experts have more fruitful conversation.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

Motion graphics videos are widely used in online ads, animated logos, film titles ... At #SIGGRAPHAsia2023 , Sharon Zhang will show how to convert them into SVG and then transform the SVG to produce new motion graphics content. sxzhang25.github.io/publications... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZn...

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Editing Motion Graphics Video via Motion Vectorization and Transformation

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 12/12/2023

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Editing Motion Graphics Video via Motion Vectorization and Transformation

SIGGRAPH Asia 2023

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 04/12/2023

There's still time to register for this! Hope to see you tomorrow.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 22/11/2023

On Dec 5, I'll be giving a virtual ACM TechTalk: Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces. It expands on my substack post. The inimitable Alyosha Efros will moderate! Register for talk: community.acm.org/demographics... Substack post: magrawala.substack.com/p/unpredicta...

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Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces

Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 14/11/2023

Earlier this year I wrote a substack post explaining why I think Generative AI tools are amazing and also incredibly frustrating to use: magrawala.substack.com/p/unpredicta...

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Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces

Why generative AI tools can be so difficult to use and how we might improve them

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