Daniel Fried
Assistant Professor
Studies language models for code generation and grounded language understanding and generation.
Daniel Fried's lab at CMU works on large language models and multimodal & grounded language. 56 papers since 2023, 38 at top venues, mostly ICLR and ICML. 5 PhD students. 1 alumnus, most often to Cartesia co-advised with Matt Gormley. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 15/ year
- at T1 venues
- 68%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 1
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 11 papers2026 · T1 7 · collecting
- 17 papers2025 · T1 13
- 13 papers2024 · T1 9
- 15 papers2023 · T1 9
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Multimodal & grounded language16 papers
- Large language models14 papers
- language11 papers
- generation10 papers
- grounded language0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
202611 papers
- COLMAgent Psychometrics: Task-Level Performance Prediction in Agentic Coding Benchmarks (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)From Reproduction to Replication: Evaluating Research Agents with Progressive Code Masking (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Generative Value Conflicts Reveal LLM Priorities (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Hybrid-Gym: Training Coding Agents to Generalize Across Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- COLMMetaLint: Generalizable Idiomatic Code Quality Analysis through Instruction-Following and Easy-to-Hard Generalization (opens in a new tab)
- COLMOdysseys: Benchmarking Web Agents on Realistic Long Horizon Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Propose, Solve, Verify: Self-Play Through Formal Verification (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Reasoning with Latent Tokens in Diffusion Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- COLMScaling Test-Time Compute for Agentic Coding (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Success and Cost Elicit Convention Formation for Efficient Communication (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Toward Training Superintelligent Software Agents through Self-Play SWE-RL (opens in a new tab)
202517 papers
- ICML (T1)Agent Workflow Memory (opens in a new tab)
- CVPR (T1)AutoPresent: Designing Structured Visuals from Scratch (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of NAACLCodeRAG-Bench: Can Retrieval Augment Code Generation? (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)CRScore: Grounding Automated Evaluation of Code Review Comments in Code Claims and Smells (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents (opens in a new tab)
- AAMAS (T1)Dynamic Coalition Structure Detection in Natural Language-based Interactions (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Human-Aligned Chess with a Bit of Search (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)Identifying and Interactively Refining Ambiguous User Goals for Data Visualization Code Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Improving Model Factuality with Fine-grained Critique-based Evaluator (opens in a new tab)
- COLMInducing Programmatic Skills for Agentic Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPmrCAD: Multimodal Refinement of Computer-aided Designs (opens in a new tab)
202413 papers
- ICML (T1)Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of NAACLAsking More Informative Questions for Grounded Retrieval (opens in a new tab)
- WACVComparative Knowledge Distillation (opens in a new tab)
- EMNLP (T1)ECCO: Can We Improve Model-Generated Code Efficiency Without Sacrificing Functional Correctness? (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLEvaluating Large Language Model Biases in Persona-Steered Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Generating Pragmatic Examples to Train Neural Program Synthesizers (opens in a new tab)
- IJCAI (T1)Human-Agent Cooperation in Games under Incomplete Information through Natual Language Communication (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, the Pope is Catholic. Generative Evaluation of Intent Resolution in LLMs (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Sotopia: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)TroVE: Inducing Verifiable and Efficient Toolboxes for Solving Programmatic Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)VisualWebArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Realistic Visual Web Tasks (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents (opens in a new tab)
202315 papers
- EMNLP (T1)API-Assisted Code Generation for Question Answering on Varied Table Structures (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPAutoReply: Detecting Nonsense in Dialogue Introspectively with Discriminative Replies (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPData Augmentation for Code Translation with Comparable Corpora and Multiple References (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPExecution-Based Evaluation for Open-Domain Code Generation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Generating Images with Multimodal Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- ICML (T1)Grounding Language Models to Images for Multimodal Inputs and Outputs (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)InCoder: A Generative Model for Code Infilling and Synthesis (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLPragmatic Inference with a CLIP Listener for Contrastive Captioning (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of EMNLPPragmatics in Language Grounding: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches (opens in a new tab)
Where alumni went1 listed, 100% to industry
Industry 1Academia 0
Most often to
- Cartesia co-advised with Matt Gormley
Apply to CMUFall 2027
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