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Selected Publications

Research across language, grounding, reinforcement learning, and safety.

I will likely fail to keep this list regularly updated. Please see my Google Scholar for a more updated list.

Publications

Long-term Measurements: Towards a Longitudinal Understanding of Human-AI Interactions
Nicole Mitchell, Dhruv Agarwal, Maty Bohacek, Remi Denton, Roma Patel
arXiv.
Detecting and Controlling Sycophancy with Cascading Linear Features
Maty Bohacek, Rishub Jain, Nicholas Dufour, Thomas Leung, Chris Bregler, Roma Patel
arXiv.
Tailored to you: longitudinal effects of personalising language models
Canfer Akbulut, Justine Breuch, Arianna Manzini, Lujain Ibrahim, Matija Franklin, Roma Patel, Iason Gabriel, Kristian Lum, Laura Weidinger
arXiv.
Positive Alignment: Artificial Intelligence for Human Flourishing
Ruben Laukkonen, Seb Krier, Chloé Bakalar, Shamil Chandaria, Morten Kringelbach, Adam Elwood, Daniel Ford, Fernando Rosas, Maty Bohacek, Matija Franklin, Nenad Tomašev, Stephanie Chan, Verena Rieser, Roma Patel, Michael Levin, Arun Rao. arXiv.
Is This Just Fantasy? Language Model Representations Reflect Human Judgments of Event Plausibility
Michael Lepori, Jennifer Hu, Ishita Dasgupta, Roma Patel, Thomas Serre, Ellie Pavlick. ICLR 2026.
Nuanced Safety for Generative AI: How Demographics Shape Responsiveness to Severity
Pushkar Mishra, Charvi Rastogi, Stephen R. Pfohl, Alicia Parrish, Roma Patel, Mark Diaz, Ding Wang, Michela Paganini, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Lora Aroyo, Verena Rieser
TMLR 2025.
Evaluating safety in GenAI Image safety annotation tasks from diverse annotators' perspectives
Ding Wang, Mark Díaz, Charvi Rastogi, Aida Davani, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, Alicia Parrish, Zoe Ashwood, Michela Paganini, Tian Huey Teh, Verena Rieser, Lora Aroyo
AIES 2025.
Utility-inspired Reward Transformations Improve Reinforcement Learning Training of Language Models
Roberto-Rafael Maura-Rivero, Chirag Nagpal, Roma Patel*, Francesco Visin*.
ALA at AAMAS 2026.
Nuanced Safety for Generative AI: How Demographics Shape Responsiveness to Severity
Pushkar Mishra, Charvi Rastogi, Stephen R. Pfohl, Alicia Parrish, Roma Patel, Mark Diaz, Ding Wang, Michela Paganini, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Lora Aroyo, Verena Rieser.
arXiv.
Whose view of safety? A deep DIVE dataset for pluralistic alignment of text-to-image models
Charvi Rastogi, Tian Huey Teh, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, Zoe Ashwood, Aida Mostafazadeh Davani, Mark Diaz, Michela Paganini, Alicia Parrish, Ding Wang, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Lora Aroyo, Verena Rieser.
NeuRIPs 2026.
Value Profiles for Encoding Human Variation
Taylor Sorensen, Roma Patel, Pushkar Mishra, Michael Henry Tessler, Michiel Bakker, Georgina Evans, Iason Gabriel, Noah Goodman, Verena Rieser.
EMNLP 2025.
States as Strings as Strategies: Steering Language Models with Game-Theoretic Solvers
Ian Gemp, Roma Patel, Yoram Bachrach, Marc Lanctot, Vibhavari Dasagi, Luke Marris, Georgios Piliouras, Siqi Liu, Karl Tuyls.
arXiv.
Skill Generalization with Verbs.
Rachel Ma, Lyndon Lam, Benjamin A Spiegel, Aditya Ganeshan, Roma Patel, Ben Abbatematteo, David Paulius, Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris.
ICRA 2023.
Pragmatics in grounded language learning: Phenomena, tasks, and modeling approaches.
Daniel Fried, Nicholas Tomlin, Jennifer Hu, Roma Patel, Aida Nematzadeh.
EMNLP Findings 2023.
Mapping Language Models to Grounded Conceptual Spaces.
Roma Patel and Ellie Pavlick.
ICLR 2022.
Generalising to New Domains by Mapping Natural Language to Lifted LTL.
Eric Hsiung, Hiloni Mehta, Junchi Chu, Xinyu Liu, Roma Patel, Stefanie Tellex, George Konidaris.
ICRA 2022.
Does linguistic bias affect generative language models?
Roma Patel and Ellie Pavlick.
EMNLP 2021.
Game-theoretic Vocabulary Selection for Text Classification Tasks
Roma Patel, Marta Garnelo, Ian Gemp, Chris Dyer and Yoram Bachrach.
NAACL 2021.
Affordance-based Robot Object Retrieval
Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan, Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
AuRO 2021.
Room-Across-Room: Multilingual Vision-and Language Navigation with Dense Spatiotempral Grounding
Alexander Ku*, Peter Anderson*, Roma Patel, Eugene Ie, Jason Baldridge.
EMNLP 2020.
On the Relationship Between Structure in Natural Language and Models of Sequential Decision Processes
Roma Patel*, Rafael Rodriguez-Sanchez*, George Konidaris.
LAREL Workshop, ICML 2020.
Grounding Language to Non-Markovian Tasks with No Supervision of Task Specifications.
Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2020.
Robot Object Retrieval with Contextual Natural Language Queries.
Thao Nguyen, Nakul Gopalan, Roma Patel, Matthew Corsaro, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2020.
How to Get Past Sesame Street: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling
Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas Mccoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, Berlin Chen, Benjamin Van Durme, Edouard Grave, Ellie Pavlick and Samuel R. Bowman.
ACL 2019. · PDF
Planning with State Abstractions for Non-Markovian Task Specifications
Yoonseon Oh, Roma Patel, Thao Nguyen, Baichuan Huang, Ellie Pavlick, Stefanie Tellex.
RSS 2019. · PDF
Learning Visually Grounded Meaning Representations with Sketches
Roma Patel, Stephen Bach and Ellie Pavlick.
How2 Workshop, ICML 2019. · PDF
Learning to Ground Language to Temporal Logical Form.
Roma Patel, Ellie Pavlick and Stefanie Tellex.
SpLU & RoboNLP Workshop, NAACL 2019. · PDF
Probing What Different NLP Tasks Teach Machines about Function Word Comprehension
Najoung Kim, Roma Patel, Adam Poliak, Alex Wang, Patrick Xia, R. Thomas McCoy, Ian Tenney, Alexis Ross, Tal Linzen, Benjamin Van Durme, Samuel R. Bowman, Ellie Pavlick.
StarSEM. 2019. (Best Paper Award!) · PDF
Looking for ELMo's Friends: Sentence-Level Pretraining Beyond Language Modeling.
Samuel R. Bowman, Ellie Pavlick, Edouard Grave, Benjamin Van Durme, Alex Wang, Jan Hula, Patrick Xia, Raghavendra Pappagari, R. Thomas McCoy, Roma Patel, Najoung Kim, Ian Tenney, Yinghui Huang, Katherin Yu, Shuning Jin, and Berlin Chen.
Unpublished manuscript. 2019. · PDF
Modeling Ambiguity in Text: A Corpus of Legal Literature.
Roma Patel and Ani Nenkova.
Unpublished manuscript. 2018. · PDF
A Corpus with Multi-Level Annotations of Patients, Interventions and Outcomes to Support Language Processing for Medical Literature.
Benjamin Nye, Jessy Li, Roma Patel, Yinfei Yang, Iain Marshall, Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace.
ACL 2018. · PDF
Syntactic Patterns Improve Information Extraction for Medical Literature
Roma Patel, Yinfei Yang, Iain Marshall, Ani Nenkova and Byron Wallace.
NAACL 2018. · PDF

Tutorials

Recognising Multimodal Entailment.
Afsaneh Shirazi, Arjun Gopalan, Arsha Nagrani, Cesar Ilharco, Christina Liu, Gabriel Barcik, Jannis Bulian, Jared Frank, Lucas Smaira, Qin Cao, Ricardo Marino, Roma Patel.
ACL 2021.

Lectures and Invited Talks

Columbia University, Data Science Institue
Title: Learning from Patterns for Information Extraction for Medical Literature
Princeton University, PACT Summer Program
Title: Network Flows

Patents