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Michael Henry Tessler

Michael Henry Tessler has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, most of them on English; often with Gregory Scontras, Michael Franke, Noah D. Goodman.

2 papers in our library · 2021–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 7 · 25 works · 415 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 31 times in our library · 1 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8886

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 Affiliations

🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States2018–2026 · 18 papersEmployment 2018–2021 · Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciencescurrent🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2013–2026 · 15 papersEducation 2013–2018 · Ph.D., Psychologycurrent🏢Google DeepMindLondon · United Kingdom2021–2026 · 11 papersEmployment since 2021🏢GoogleLondon · United Kingdom2025–2026 · 2 papers🔬National Institute of Mental HealthBethesda · United States2015–2017 · 2 papers🏛️National Institutes of HealthBethesda · United States2015–2017 · 2 papers
🏛️DeepMind Technologies LtdLondon · United Kingdom2021Employment since 2021

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.English · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper20211 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Value Profiles for Encoding Human Variation (2025 · 15 citations)
    Annotators often disagree on subjective rating tasks such as toxicity, hate speech or chat preferences. This disagreement is usually discarded as noise. The authors instead model each rater individually and ask how a person is best represented. They propose value profiles: short free-text descriptions of a rater's…
  2. A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling framework (2021 · 8 citations)
    A tutorial and critical survey of Rational Speech Act (RSA) models. It derives the vanilla model (literal listener L0, speaker S1 with rationality α and utterance cost, pragmatic listener L1) and shows that S1's choice factorises into truth, informativity and cost, read as Gricean Quality, Quantity and Manner. It…

All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Communicating Natural Programs to Humans and Machines ↗arXiv:2106.07824 · no summary yetSamuel Acquaviva et al.2021 · 22 citations
  2. Value Profiles for Encoding Human VariationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Taylor Sorensen, Pushkar Mishra, Roma Patel, et al.2025 · 15 citations
  3. A practical introduction to the Rational Speech Act modeling frameworkGregory Scontras, Michael Henry Tessler, Michael FrankeEnglish · 8 citations

 Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 31 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 7 citing papers with a page here →.

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