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Maneesh Agrawala

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Forest Baskett Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford. graphics.stanford.edu/~maneesh

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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
Two trajectories are consistent if one can be transformed into the other under warps allowable by the transformation group. We propose a self-supervised algorithm that recovers a shape family using hierarchical relationships between Lie transformation groups. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.29301
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Self-Consistency for LLM-Based Motion Trajectory Generation and Verification
Self-consistency has proven to be an effective technique for improving LLM performance on natural language reasoning tasks in a lightweight, unsupervised manner. In this work, we study how to adapt se...
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The key idea is to treat the family of shapes associated with a prompt as a prototype trajectory paired with a geometric transformation group (e.g., rigid, similarity, affine).
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Given a prompt (e.g., “Move the circle in a spiral path”), the approach first samples diverse motion trajectories from the LLM, and then identifies groups of consistent trajectories via clustering.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Next week at CVPR @jiajuma.bsky.social will show how to check for self-consistency in the context of motion graphics animation trajectories. Details: majiaju.io/trajectory-s...
Grouping motion trajectories generated by an LLM for the prompt "Move the circle along a path shaped like a logarithmic spiral with 2 turns, clockwise and outward from the center."
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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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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
👍Yes. Would love to discuss.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
I see the relationship to Annihilation, but I could never really connect with that one for some reason.
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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
YouTube video by Sarah E. Chasins and the PLAIT Programming Lab
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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
YouTube video by Cuco
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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 · 17/09/2025
Never for 106X. I was a student until 2002 and a prof at Stanford starting in 2015.
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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
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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
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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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Looking forward to this workshop!
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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 · 21/03/2025
Apr 19: I'll present Beyond Unpredictable Black Boxes: Designing Generative AI For Iterative Refinement for the Computational Visual Media Conference 2025 and the AMC AI Film Festival 2025 in Hong Kong. iccvm.org/2025/index.htm cveu.github.io/event/amcfil...
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The 13th international conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM 2025) will be held on April 19-21, 2025 at Hong Kong SAR, China.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Looking forward to giving a connected pair of upcoming talks! Apr 14: I'll present Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces for the Data Science Institute in Toronto datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...
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Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces - Prof. Maneesh Agrawala - DSI
Join us for the Inequity Speaker Series with Associate Professor Dustin Duncan, from the Department of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, Columbia University.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Also mentions Daniel Huffman's blog post on Remembering LineDrive.
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Remembering LineDrive
Once upon a time, there was a website called MapBlast. This was during the wild frontier days of online road maps about ten years ago, when MapQuest was king and Google Maps was but a gleam in the …
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Ran into this great article on Navigating Nostalgia from Jonathan Bean. It's about nostalgia for older techniology and interfaces, and it make a lovely reference to LineDrive maps.
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Navigating Nostalgia: Technology, Intention, and the Road Ahead | IX Magazine Issue XXXII.2 March - April 2025
I recently took a road trip from Tucson, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon, to spend time with family and to spare our spoiled dog the indignity of flying in the cargo hold. I ended up...
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If you look closely you can see Venus.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
McGill runs Bellairs and their faculty run workshops here. I'm jealous of the McGill faculty.
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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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a ton of crates @tonofcrates.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
my take on bringing HCI to PL blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/e...
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Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code
Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don’t have the proper tools to do so. That’s how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in e…
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
very intuitive argument!
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Pretty accurate based on what I know about you.
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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Great post! Reminded me about this recent paper from Doug James and David Levin on exploiting change blindness to control multibody animation: research.nvidia.com/labs/prl/vic... www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYd...
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ViCMA: Visual Control of Multibody Animations (Teaser)
Teaser video for the technical paper: Doug L. James and David I.W. Levin ViCMA: Visual Control of Multibody Animations ACM SIGGRAPH Asia 2023 For further details see: https://research.nvidia.com/labs/prl/vicma
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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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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Thinking of adding this paper to my HCI Foundations and Frontiers course: arxiv.org/abs/2402.19194 So many questions though -- what was the IRB process like? how did NSF reimburse for the cannabis? ...
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High Expectations: An Observational Study of Programming and...
Anecdotal evidence of cannabis use by professional programmers abounds. Recent studies have found that some professionals regularly use cannabis while programming even for work-related tasks....
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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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