Our group works on enabling people and AI systems to communicate and collaborate on real-world tasks: writing code, using computers and the web, and solving reasoning problems. We develop methods that allow agents to learn from interactions with people, environments, and each other; communicate effectively and efficiently; and plan and reason about the world.

PI: Daniel Fried · dfried@cs.cmu.edu (note for prospective students and postdocs)

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Research

Language model agents

Benchmarks and methods for agents that carry out long-horizon tasks on the web and computers, and improve from experience.

Selected papers

Pragmatics and human-AI interaction

How can models infer what people mean, not just what they say, and communicate with them efficiently?

Selected papers

Multi-agent dynamics

How do language models negotiate, form coalitions, and handle conflicting values, with each other and with people?

Selected papers

Reasoning

Training and inference methods for reasoning in language models.

Selected papers

People

Faculty

PhD Advisees

Collaborators

Alumni

News

September 2026 Andre's Reasoning with Latent Tokens in Diffusion Language Models selected as a Spotlight (top 1% of submissions) at NeurIPS 2026.
April 2026 Awarded the NSF CAREER Award for our work on Improving Grounded Agents via Efficient Feedback from People
April 2026 Awarded the Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship for our work on Modeling Common Ground for Adaptive Collaboration.
April 2026 Saujas awarded the Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship.
October 2025 Zora awarded the Google PhD Fellowship.
June 2025 Andy awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
February 2024 JY awarded the Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship.
September 2023 Received an Okawa Research Grant for our work on Pragmatic Language Interfaces
August 2022 Group founded! Daniel joins CMU.

Join Us

See Daniel's page for prospective students, postdocs, and interns for whether we are recruiting this cycle and how to apply.

Publications (since 2022 )

Full list · Google Scholar