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Manuel Cherep

@mcherep.bsky.social

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PhD student at MIT working on behavioral machine learning.

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Cool paper from @nikhilsinghmus.bsky.social group @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social on how to iteratively edit (AKA "sloptimize") images to maximize the probability of being chosen over alternatives. arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15278

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Marieke van Vugt @mvugt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Our findings identify behavioral robustness as a fundamental challenge for safe and trustworthy AI agents." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Manuel Cherep @mcherep.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🚨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. 🧵1/9

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Manuel Cherep @mcherep.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

✨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 🧵1/3

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Manuel Cherep @mcherep.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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... 🧵 1/3

Paper title: Superficial Alignment, Subtle Divergence, and Nudge Sensitivity in LLM Decision-Making; Authors: Manuel Cherep*, Nikhil Singh*, and Pattie Maes

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