The following Media Lab researchers are participating in NeurIPS 2025, the 39th conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. The conference, which is being held in two locations (Mexico City, Mexico and San Diego, CA), fosters the exchange of research advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Gaze to the Stars: AI, Storytelling and Public Art
Behnaz Farahi, Sergio Mutis, Chenyue Xdd Dai
An art poster in the Creative AI Session
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Gaze to the Stars: AI and Public Art from Personal Affect and Collective Empathy
Behnaz Farahi, Sergio Mutis, Chenyue Xdd Dai
An art paper
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QoQ-Med: Building Multimodal Clinical Foundation Models with Domain-Aware GRPO Training
Wei (David) Dai, Peilin Chen, Chanakya Ekbote, Paul Pu Liang
Paper and oral presentation
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FairGRPO: Fair Reinforcement Learning for Equitable Clinical Reasoning
Wei (David) Dai, Shiqi Dai, Jiaee Cheong, Paul Pu Liang
GenAI4Health Workshop (oral presentation)
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The Empty Chair: Using AI Personas to Raise Missing Perspectives in Policy Deliberations
Suyash Fulay, Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou, Deb Roy
Workshop on LLM Persona Modeling
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The Anemoia Device: A Tangible AI System for the Co-creation of Synthetic Memories through Scent
Cyrus Clarke, Nomy Yu, Melo Chen, Yuen Zou, Hiroshi Ishii
Workshop poster presentation
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Exploring RAG-driven Multimodal LLMs for Explainable ECG Interpretation
Minsol (Michelle) Kim, Du Liu, Ragasudha Botta, Seok Gyu Han, Man Jiang, Jason Gusdorf, Patricia Maes, Paul Pu Liang
Foundation Models for the Brain and Body Workshop
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Beyond Accuracy: A Diagnostic Protocol for Fairly Evaluating Multimodal Reasoning
Minsol (Michelle) Kim, Summer (Shohreh) Ghorbani
Evaluating the Evolving LLM Lifecycle Workshop
When One Modality Sabotages the Others: A Diagnostic Lens on Multimodal Reasoning
Chenyu Zhang, Minsol (Michelle) Kim, Summer (Shohreh) Ghorbani, Jingyao Wu, Rosalind Picard, Patricia Maes, Paul Pu Liang
Multimodal Algorithmic Reasoning (MAR) Workshop
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Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations: Dual-Stream EEG Decoding for 3D Visual Perception
Ninon Lize Masclef, Taisija Demcenko, Anto Catanzaro, Nataliya Kosmyna
Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations (NeurReps) Workshop
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A Framework for Studying AI Agent Behavior: Evidence from Consumer Choice Experiments
Manuel Cherep, Chengtian Ma, Abigail Xu, Maya Shaked, Pattie Maes, Nikhil Singh
Workshop
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Discovering and Steering Interpretable Concepts in Large Generative Music Models
Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep, Pattie Maes
Workshop
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Behavioral Systems Require Behavioral Tests
Nikhil Singh, Manuel Cherep, Pattie Maes
Workshop
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RADAR: A Reasoning-Guided Attribution Framework for Explainable Visual Data Analysis
Anku Rani, Aparna Garimella, Apoorv Saxena, Balaji Vasan Srinivasan, Paul Pu Liang
Workshop
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The Stochastic Parrot: a physical AI Cohabitant
Ethan Chang, Quincy Kuang, Marcelo Coehlo
Workshop
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Pocket Ink - Heaven's mandate: a hyper-individualized tangible card game platform in the Age of AI
Quincy Kuang, Lucy Li, Lingdong Huang, Hiroshi Ishii
Art Poster
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