Daniel Fried: CV

April 29, 2025

Contact Information

dfried@andrew.cmu.edu
dpfried.github.io

Positions

Education

Former Positions

Honors & Awards

Okawa Research Award 2023
Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Natural Language Processing 2019 – 2021
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley 2018
Outstanding Reviewer, ACL 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022
Outstanding Reviewer, NeurIPS 2019
Tencent AI Lab Fellowship 2018 – 2019
Huawei & Berkeley AI Fellowship 2017 – 2018
Best M.Phil. Student Award, Cambridge Computer Laboratory 2015
Churchill Scholarship 2014 – 2015
NDSEG Fellowship 2014
Finalist, Hertz Graduate Fellowship 2014
Outstanding Senior Award in Research, U. Arizona College of Science 2014
Outstanding Senior Award in Academics, U. Arizona Computer Science 2014
Outstanding Senior Award in Academics, U. Arizona Information Science 2014
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship 2013
National Merit Scholar 2010 – 2014
Flinn Scholarship, Flinn Foundation of Arizona 2010 – 2014
Presidential Scholar, U.S. Department of Education 2010

  1. StarCoder: May the Source Be With You!
    Raymond Li et al. (68 authors from the BigCode Project)
    Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2023

  2. Human-Level Play in the Game of Diplomacy by Combining Language Models with Strategic Reasoning
    FAIR Diplomacy Team
    Science, 2022

  3. Syntactic Structure Distillation Pretraining for Bidirectional Encoders
    Adhiguna Kuncoro*, Lingpeng Kong*, Daniel Fried*, Dani Yogatama, Laura Rimell, Chris Dyer, and Phil Blunsom
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2020

  4. Higher-Order Lexical Semantic Models for Non-Factoid Answer Reranking
    Daniel Fried, Peter Jansen, Gustave Hahn-Powell, Mihai Surdeanu, and Peter Clark
    Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL), 2015

  5. Dynamic Coalition Structure Detection in Natural Language-based Interactions
    Abhishek N. Kulkarni*, Andy Liu*, Jean-Raphael Gaglione, Daniel Fried, and Ufuk Topcu
    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), 2025

  6. AutoPresent: Designing Structured Visuals from Scratch
    Jiaxin Ge*, Zora Zhiruo Wang*, Xuhui Zhou, Yi-Hao Peng, Sanjay Subramanian, Qinyue Tan, Maarten Sap, Alane Suhr**, Daniel Fried**, Graham Neubig**, and Trevor Darrell**
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2025

  7. CRScore: Grounding Automated Evaluation of Code Review Comments in Code Claims and Smells
    Atharva Naik, Marcus Alenius, Daniel Fried, and Carolyn Rose
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2025

  8. CodeRAG-Bench: Can Retrieval Augment Code Generation?
    Zora Zhiruo Wang*, Akari Asai*, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Frank F. Xu, Yiqing Xie, Graham Neubig, and Daniel Fried
    Findings of NAACL, 2025

  9. BigCodeBench: Benchmarking Code Generation with Diverse Function Calls and Complex Instructions
    Terry Yue Zhuo et al. (33 authors from the BigCode project)
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

  10. Human-Aligned Chess with a Bit of Search
    Yiming Zhang, Athul Paul Jacob, Vivian Lai, Daniel Fried, and Daphne Ippolito
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

  11. Repetition Improves Language Model Embeddings
    Jacob Mitchell Springer, Suhas Kotha, Daniel Fried, Graham Neubig, and Aditi Raghunathan
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

  12. Dissecting Adversarial Robustness of Multimodal LM Agents
    Chen Henry Wu, Rishi Shah, Jing Yu Koh, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Daniel Fried, and Aditi Raghunathan
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025

  13. Comparative Knowledge Distillation
    Alex Tianyi Xu*, Alex Wilf*, Paul Pu Liang, Alexander Obolenskiy, Daniel Fried, and Louis-Philippe Morency
    Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024

  14. ECCO: Can We Improve Model-Generated Code Efficiency Without Sacrificing Functional Correctness?
    Siddhant Waghjale*, Vishruth Veerendranath*, Zora Zhiruo Wang, and Daniel Fried
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024

  15. What Are Tools Anyway? A Survey from the Language Model Perspective
    Zora Zhiruo Wang, Zhoujun Cheng, Hao Zhu, Daniel Fried, and Graham Neubig
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024

  16. Human-Agent Cooperation in Games under Incomplete Information through Natual Language Communication
    Shenghui Chen, Daniel Fried, and Ufuk Topcu
    International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024

  17. Evaluating Large Language Model Biases in Person-Steered Generation
    Andy Liu, Mona T. Diab, and Daniel Fried
    Findings of ACL, 2024

  18. Is the Pope Catholic? Yes, the Pope is Catholic. Generative Evaluation of Intent Resolution in LLMs
    Akhila Yerukola, Saujas Vaduguru, Daniel Fried, and Maarten Sap
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

  19. VisualWebArena: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Realistic Visual Web Tasks
    Jing Yu Koh, Robert Lo*, Lawrence Jang*, Vikram Duvvur*, Ming Chong Lim*, Po-Yu Huang*, Graham Neubig, Shuyan Zhou, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Daniel Fried
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024

  20. TroVE: Inducing Verifiable and Efficient Toolboxes for Solving Programmatic Tasks
    Zhiruo Wang, Graham Neubig, and Daniel Fried
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

  21. Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings
    Yewen Pu, Saujas Vaduguru, Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena Glassman, and Daniel Fried
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024

  22. Asking More Informative Questions for Grounded Retrieval
    Sedrick Keh, Justin T. Chiu, and Daniel Fried
    Findings of NAACL, 2024

  23. Generating Pragmatic Examples to Train Neural Program Synthesizers
    Saujas Vaduguru, Daniel Fried, and Yewen Pu
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

  24. Sotopia: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents
    Xuhui Zhou*, Hao Zhu*, Leena Mathur, Ruohong Zhang, Haofei Yu, Zhengyang Qi, Louis-Philippe Morency, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Graham Neubig, and Maarten Sap
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

  25. WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
    Shuyan Zhou*, Frank Xu*, Hao Zhu**, Xuhui Zhou**, Robert Lo**, Abishek Sridhar**, Xianyi Cheng, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Uri Alon, and Graham Neubig
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024

  26. API-Assisted Code Generation for Question Answering on Varied Table Structures
    Yihan Cao*, Shuyi Chen*, Ryan Liu*, Zhiruo Wang, and Daniel Fried
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023

  27. Symbolic Planning and Code Generation for Grounded Dialogue
    Justin Chiu, Wenting Zhao, Derek Chen, Saujas Vaduguru, Alexander Rush, and Daniel Fried
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023

  28. Pragmatics in Language Grounding: Phenomena, Tasks, and Modeling Approaches
    Daniel Fried*, Nicholas Tomlin*, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, and Aida Nematzadeh
    Findings of EMNLP, 2023

  29. Execution-Based Evaluation for Open-Domain Code Generation
    Zhiruo Wang, Shuyan Zhou, Daniel Fried, and Graham Neubig
    Findings of EMNLP, 2023

  30. Data Augmentation for Code Translation with Comparable Corpora and Multiple References
    Yiqing Xie, Atharva Naik, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rose
    Findings of EMNLP, 2023

  31. AutoReply: Detecting Nonsense in Dialogue Introspectively with Discriminative Replies
    Weiyan Shi, Emily Dinan, Adi Renduchintala, Daniel Fried, Athul Paul Jacob, Zhou Yu, and Mike Lewis
    Findings of EMNLP, 2023

  32. Generating Images with Multimodal Language Models
    Jing Yu Koh, Daniel Fried, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023

  33. Pragmatic Inference with a CLIP Listener for Contrastive Captioning
    Jiefu Ou, Benno Krojer, and Daniel Fried
    Findings of ACL, 2023

  34. Contrastive Decoding: Open-ended Text Generation as Optimization
    Xiang Lisa Li, Ari Holtzman, Daniel Fried, Percy Liang, Jason Eisner, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Mike Lewis
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023

  35. Grounding Language Models to Images for Multimodal Inputs and Outputs
    Jing Yu Koh, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, and Daniel Fried
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

  36. Coder Reviewer Reranking for Code Generation
    Tianyi Zhang, Tao Yu, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih, Daniel Fried, and Sida I. Wang
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

  37. DS-1000: A Natural and Reliable Benchmark for Data Science Code Generation
    Yuhang Lai*, Chengxi Li*, Yiming Wang*, Tianyi Zhang*, Ruiqi Zhong*, Luke Zettlemoyer, Scott Wen-tau Yih, Daniel Fried, Sida I. Wang, and Tao Yu
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2023

  38. InCoder: A Generative Model for Code Infilling and Synthesis
    Daniel Fried*, Armen Aghajanyan*, Jessy Lin, Sida I. Wang, Eric Wallace, Freda Shi, Ruiqi Zhong, Wen-tau Yih, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Mike Lewis
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2023

  39. Natural Language to Code Translation with Execution
    Freda Shi, Daniel Fried, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Luke Zettlemoyer, and Sida I. Wang
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

  40. Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs
    Maarten Sap, Ronan Le Bras, Daniel Fried, and Yejin Choi
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022

  41. G3: Geolocation via Guidebook Grounding
    Grace Luo*, Giscard Biamby*, Trevor Darrell, Daniel Fried, and Anna Rohrbach
    Findings of EMNLP, 2022

  42. Inferring Rewards from Language in Context
    Jessy Lin, Daniel Fried, Dan Klein, and Anca Dragan
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022

  43. Reference-Centric Models for Grounded Collaborative Dialogue
    Daniel Fried, Justin Chiu, and Dan Klein
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2021

  44. Modular Networks for Compositional Instruction Following
    Rodolfo Corona, Daniel Fried, Coline Devin, Dan Klein, and Trevor Darrell
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2021

  45. Learning to Segment Actions from Observation and Narration
    Daniel Fried, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Phil Blunsom, Chris Dyer, Stephen Clark, Aida Nematzadeh
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2020

  46. Cross-Domain Generalization of Neural Constituency Parsers
    Daniel Fried*, Nikita Kitaev*, and Dan Klein
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019

  47. Are You Looking? Grounding to Multiple Modalities in Vision-and-Language Navigation
    Ronghang Hu, Daniel Fried, Anna Rohrbach, Dan Klein, Trevor Darrell, and Kate Saenko
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2019

  48. Pragmatically Informative Text Generation
    Sheng Shen, Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas, and Dan Klein
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2019

  49. Speaker-Follower Models for Vision-and-Language Navigation
    Daniel Fried*, Ronghang Hu*, Volkan Cirik*, Anna Rohrbach, Jacob Andreas, Louis-Philippe Morency, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Kate Saenko, Dan Klein**, and Trevor Darrell**
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018

  50. Policy Gradient as a Proxy for Dynamic Oracles in Constituency Parsing
    Daniel Fried and Dan Klein
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2018

  51. Unified Pragmatic Models for Generating and Following Instructions
    Daniel Fried, Jacob Andreas, and Dan Klein
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2018

  52. Effective Inference for Generative Neural Parsing
    Mitchell Stern, Daniel Fried, and Dan Klein
    Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2017

  53. Improving Neural Parsing by Disentangling Model Combination and Reranking Effects
    Daniel Fried*, Mitchell Stern*, and Dan Klein
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2017

  54. Towards Using Social Media to Identify Individuals at Risk for Preventable Chronic Illness
    Dane Bell, Daniel Fried, Luwen Huangfu, Mihai Surdeanu, and Stephen Kobourov
    Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC), 2016

  55. Low-Rank Tensors for Verbs in Compositional Distributional Semantics
    Daniel Fried, Tamara Polajnar, and Stephen Clark
    Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2015

  56. Analyzing the Language of Food on Social Media
    Daniel Fried, Mihai Surdeanu, Stephen Kobourov, Melanie Hingle, and Dane Bell
    International Conference on Big Data, 2014

  57. Maps of Computer Science
    Daniel Fried and Stephen Kobourov
    Pacific Visualization Symposium (PacificVis), 2014

  58. Predicting Parallelization of Sequential Programs Using Supervised Learning
    Daniel Fried, Zhen Li, Ali Jannesari, and Felix Wolf
    International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2013

  59. A Generative Probabilistic Framework for Learning Spatial Language
    Colin Dawson, Jeremy Wright, Antons Rebguns, Marco Valenzuela Escarcega, Daniel Fried, and Paul Cohen
    International Conference on Development and Learning, 2013. Best Paper Award

  60. Bayesian Geometric Modeling of Indoor Scenes
    Luca Del Pero, Joshua Bowdish, Daniel Fried, Bonnie Kermgard, Emily Hartley, and Kobus Barnard
    Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012

  61. SantaCoder: Don’t Reach for the Stars
    Loubna Ben Allal*, Raymond Li*, Denis Kocetkov*, et al. (41 authors from the BigCode Project)
    Deep Learning for Code Workshop, 2023. Best Paper Award

  62. Modeling Perspective-Dependent Ambiguity in Grounded Collaborative Dialogue
    Justin Chiu, Wenting Zhao, Alexander M. Rush, and Daniel Fried
    Wordplay: When Language Meets Games Workshop, 2022

  63. Interactive Assignments for Teaching Structured Neural NLP
    David Gaddy, Daniel Fried, Nikita Kitaev, Mitchell Stern, Rodolfo Corona, John DeNero, and Dan Klein
    Teaching NLP Workshop at NAACL, 2021

  64. Challenges for Using Social Media for Early Detection of Type II Diabetes Mellitus
    Dane Bell, Daniel Fried, Luwen Huangfu, Mihai Surdeanu, and Stephen Kobourov
    International Workshop on Social Media World Sensors, 2016

  65. Learning Low-Rank Tensors for Transitive Verbs
    Daniel Fried, Tamara Polajnar, and Stephen Clark
    Advances in Distributional Semantics Workshop, 2015

  66. Incorporating both Distributional and Relational Semantics in Word Representations
    Daniel Fried and Kevin Duh
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, 2015

  67. Inducing Programmatic Skills for Agentic Tasks
    Zora Zhiruo Wang, Apurva Gandhi, Graham Neubig, Daniel Fried
    arXiv, 2025

  68. RepoST: Scalable Repository-Level Coding Environment Construction with Sandbox Testing
    Yiqing Xie, Alex Xie, Divyanshu Sheth, Pengfei Liu, Daniel Fried, Carolyn Rose
    arXiv, 2025

  69. SWE-RL: Advancing LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning on Open Software Evolution
    Yuxiang Wei, Olivier Duchenne, Jade Copet, Quentin Carbonneaux, Lingming Zhang, Daniel Fried, Gabriel Synnaeve, Rishabh Singh, and Sida I. Wang
    arXiv, 2025

  70. CodeBenchGen: Creating Scalable Execution-based Code Generation Benchmarks
    Yiqing Xie, Alex Xie, Divyanshu Sheth, Pengfei Liu, Daniel Fried, and Carolyn Rose
    arXiv, 2024

  71. Tree Search for Language Model Agents
    Jing Yu Koh, Stephen McAleer, Daniel Fried, and Ruslan Salakhutdinov
    arXiv, 2024

  72. Agent Workflow Memory
    Zora Zhiruo Wang, Jiayuan Mao, Daniel Fried, and Graham Neubig
    arXiv, 2024

  73. Improving Model Factuality with Fine-grained Critique-based Evaluator
    Yiqing Xie, Wenxuan Zhou, Pradyot Prakash, Di Jin, Yuning Mao, Quintin Fettes, Arya Talebzadeh, Sinong Wang, Han Fang, Carolyn Rose, Daniel Fried, and Hejia Zhang
    arXiv, 2024

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