Maximilian Puelma Touzel

Publications

Also see my google scholar profile.

	BluePrint: A Social Media User Dataset for LLM Persona Evaluation and Training Bück-Kaeffer A, Chooi JQ, Zhao D, Puelma Touzel M, Pelrine K, Godbout JF, Rabbany R, Yang Z To be presented at PALS Workshop @ EMNLP 2025 (2025). [ preprint ]
	TRUTH: Teaching LLMs to Rerank for Truth in Misinformation Detection Yu H, Huang S, Yang Z, Puelma Touzel M, Pelrine K, Godbout JF, Rabbany R To be presented at SOLAR workshop @ COLM (2025). [ preprint ]
	Veracity: An Open-Source AI Fact-Checking System Curtis TL, Puelma Touzel M, Garneau W, Gruaz M, Pinder M, Wang LW, Krishna S, Cohen L, Godbout JF, Rabbany R, Pelrine K. IJCAI Conference Proceedings (2025). [ preprint \| proceedings ]
	SandboxSocial: A Sandbox for Social Media Using Multimodal AI Agents Puelma Touzel M∗, Sarangi S∗, Krishnakumar G, Gurbuz BT, Welch A, Yang Z, Musulan A, Yu H, Kosak-Hine E, Gibbs T, Musulan A, Thibault C, Rabbany R, Godbout JF, Zhao D, Pelrine K. IJCAI Conference Proceedings (2025). [ preprint \| proceedings ]
	A Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation Puelma Touzel M∗, Sarangi S∗, Welch A∗, Krishnakumar G, Zhao D, Yang Z, Yu H, Kosak-Hine E, Gibbs T, Musulan A, Thibault C, Rabbany R, Godbout JF, Pelrine K. NeurIPS SOLAR, SATA, and Safe Generative AI Workshops (2024). [ preprint ]
	Regional and Temporal Patterns of Partisan Polarization during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States and Canada Yang Z, Imouza A, Puelma Touzel M, Amadoro C, Desrosiers-Brisebois G, Pelrine K, Levy S, Godbout JF, Rabbany R. submitted (2024). [ preprint ]
	Scalable Approaches to a theory of many minds Puelma Touzel M, Me'marian A, Riemer M, Mircea A, Williams A, Ahlstrand E, Lehnert L, Bhati R, Dumas G, Rish I. Agentic Markets, ICML (2024). [ workshop paper ]
	The fitness landscape of social norms in social dilemmas Puelma Touzel M. [ draft ]
	Ideology from topic mixture statistics: Inference method and example application to carbon tax public opinion Puelma Touzel M, Lachapelle E. Environmental Data Science (2024). Earlier version: NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (2022). [ Journal paper \| workshop paper ]
	NoisET: Noise learning and Expansion detection of T-cell receptors Bensouda Koraichi M, Puelma Touzel M, Mazzolini A, Mora T, Walczak A. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2022). [ journal ]
	Summarizing Societies: Agent Abstraction in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Puelma Touzel M, Me'marian A, Bhati R, Riemer M, Rish I. From Cells to Societies: Learning Across Scales Workshop, ICLR (2022). [ workshop paper ]
	Continual Learning In Environments With Polynomial Mixing Times Riemer M, Chandra Raparthy S, Cases I, Subbaraj G, Puelma Touzel M, Rish I. NeurIPS (2022). (also see Ecological Reinforcement Learning Workshop, NeurIPS (2021).) [ proceedings \| workshop paper ]
	Deliberation gated by opportunity cost adapts to context with urgency Puelma Touzel M, Cisek P, Lajoie G. PLoS Computational Biology (2022). [ journal \| supp. video ]
	On Lyapunov Exponents for RNNs: Understanding information propogation using dynamical systems tools Puelma Touzel M, Vogt R, Shlizerman E, Lajoie G. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics & Statistics (2022). [ journal ]
	Inferring the immune response from repertoire sequencing Puelma Touzel M, Walczak A, Mora T. PLoS Computational Biology (2020). [ journal ]
	Non-normal Recurrent Neural Network (nnRNN): learning long time dependencies while improving expressivity with transient dynamics Goyette K, Kerg GC, Puelma Touzel M, Gidel G, Vorontsov E, Bengio Y, Lajoie G. NeurIPS (2019). [ proceedings ]
	Statistical mechanics of spike events underlying phase space partitioning and sequence codes in large-scale models of neural circuits Puelma Touzel M, & Wolf F. Physical Review E (2019). [ journal \| preprint \| supp. video ]
	Precise tracking of vaccine-responding T-cell clones reveals convergent and personalized response in identical twins Pogorelyy M, Minervina A, Puelma Touzel M, Sycheva A, Komech E, Kovalenko E, Karganova G, Egorov E, Komkov A, Chudakov D, Mamedov I, Mora T, Walczak A, Lebedev Y. PNAS (2018). [ journal \| preprint ]
	Origin of Public Memory B Cell Clones in Fish After Antiviral Vaccination Magadan S, Jouneau L, Puelma Touzel M, Marillet S, Chara W, Six A, Quillet E, Mora T, Walczak A, Cazals F, Sunyer O, Fillatreau S, Boudinot P. Frontiers in Immunology (2018). [ journal ]
	Invasions of Host-Associated Microbiome Networks Murall CL, Abbate JL, Puelma Touzel M, Allen-Vercoe E, Alizon S, Froissart R, & McCann K. Chapter in "Networks of Invasion: Empirical Evidence and Case Studies". Advances in Ecological Research (2017). [ journal \| pdf ]
	Cellular dynamics and stable chaos in balanced networks PhD Thesis, University of Goettingen (2015). [ online library ]
	Complete Firing-Rate Response of Neurons with Complex Intrinsic Dynamics Puelma Touzel M, & Wolf F. PLoS Computational Biology (2015). [ journal ]
	Dynamical models of cortical circuits Wolf F, Engelken R, Puelma-Touzel M, Weidinger JDF, & Neef A. Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014). [ journal \| pdf ]
	Optimal bounded-error strategies for projective measurements in nonorthogonal-state discrimination Touzel MAP, Adamson RBA, & Steinberg AM. Physical Review A (2007). [ journal \| preprint ]

	BluePrint: A Social Media User Dataset for LLM Persona Evaluation and Training Bück-Kaeffer A, Chooi JQ, Zhao D, Puelma Touzel M, Pelrine K, Godbout JF, Rabbany R, Yang Z To be presented at PALS Workshop @ EMNLP 2025 (2025). [ preprint ]
	TRUTH: Teaching LLMs to Rerank for Truth in Misinformation Detection Yu H, Huang S, Yang Z, Puelma Touzel M, Pelrine K, Godbout JF, Rabbany R To be presented at SOLAR workshop @ COLM (2025). [ preprint ]
	Veracity: An Open-Source AI Fact-Checking System Curtis TL, Puelma Touzel M, Garneau W, Gruaz M, Pinder M, Wang LW, Krishna S, Cohen L, Godbout JF, Rabbany R, Pelrine K. IJCAI Conference Proceedings (2025). [ preprint \| proceedings ]
	SandboxSocial: A Sandbox for Social Media Using Multimodal AI Agents Puelma Touzel M∗, Sarangi S∗, Krishnakumar G, Gurbuz BT, Welch A, Yang Z, Musulan A, Yu H, Kosak-Hine E, Gibbs T, Musulan A, Thibault C, Rabbany R, Godbout JF, Zhao D, Pelrine K. IJCAI Conference Proceedings (2025). [ preprint \| proceedings ]
	A Simulation System Towards Solving Societal-Scale Manipulation Puelma Touzel M∗, Sarangi S∗, Welch A∗, Krishnakumar G, Zhao D, Yang Z, Yu H, Kosak-Hine E, Gibbs T, Musulan A, Thibault C, Rabbany R, Godbout JF, Pelrine K. NeurIPS SOLAR, SATA, and Safe Generative AI Workshops (2024). [ preprint ]
	Regional and Temporal Patterns of Partisan Polarization during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States and Canada Yang Z, Imouza A, Puelma Touzel M, Amadoro C, Desrosiers-Brisebois G, Pelrine K, Levy S, Godbout JF, Rabbany R. submitted (2024). [ preprint ]
	Scalable Approaches to a theory of many minds Puelma Touzel M, Me'marian A, Riemer M, Mircea A, Williams A, Ahlstrand E, Lehnert L, Bhati R, Dumas G, Rish I. Agentic Markets, ICML (2024). [ workshop paper ]
	The fitness landscape of social norms in social dilemmas Puelma Touzel M. [ draft ]
	Ideology from topic mixture statistics: Inference method and example application to carbon tax public opinion Puelma Touzel M, Lachapelle E. Environmental Data Science (2024). Earlier version: NeurIPS 2022 Workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (2022). [ Journal paper \| workshop paper ]
	NoisET: Noise learning and Expansion detection of T-cell receptors Bensouda Koraichi M, Puelma Touzel M, Mazzolini A, Mora T, Walczak A. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A (2022). [ journal ]
	Summarizing Societies: Agent Abstraction in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Puelma Touzel M, Me'marian A, Bhati R, Riemer M, Rish I. From Cells to Societies: Learning Across Scales Workshop, ICLR (2022). [ workshop paper ]
	Continual Learning In Environments With Polynomial Mixing Times Riemer M, Chandra Raparthy S, Cases I, Subbaraj G, Puelma Touzel M, Rish I. NeurIPS (2022). (also see Ecological Reinforcement Learning Workshop, NeurIPS (2021).) [ proceedings \| workshop paper ]
	Deliberation gated by opportunity cost adapts to context with urgency Puelma Touzel M, Cisek P, Lajoie G. PLoS Computational Biology (2022). [ journal \| supp. video ]
	On Lyapunov Exponents for RNNs: Understanding information propogation using dynamical systems tools Puelma Touzel M, Vogt R, Shlizerman E, Lajoie G. Frontiers in Applied Mathematics & Statistics (2022). [ journal ]
	Inferring the immune response from repertoire sequencing Puelma Touzel M, Walczak A, Mora T. PLoS Computational Biology (2020). [ journal ]
	Non-normal Recurrent Neural Network (nnRNN): learning long time dependencies while improving expressivity with transient dynamics Goyette K, Kerg GC, Puelma Touzel M, Gidel G, Vorontsov E, Bengio Y, Lajoie G. NeurIPS (2019). [ proceedings ]
	Statistical mechanics of spike events underlying phase space partitioning and sequence codes in large-scale models of neural circuits Puelma Touzel M, & Wolf F. Physical Review E (2019). [ journal \| preprint \| supp. video ]
	Precise tracking of vaccine-responding T-cell clones reveals convergent and personalized response in identical twins Pogorelyy M, Minervina A, Puelma Touzel M, Sycheva A, Komech E, Kovalenko E, Karganova G, Egorov E, Komkov A, Chudakov D, Mamedov I, Mora T, Walczak A, Lebedev Y. PNAS (2018). [ journal \| preprint ]
	Origin of Public Memory B Cell Clones in Fish After Antiviral Vaccination Magadan S, Jouneau L, Puelma Touzel M, Marillet S, Chara W, Six A, Quillet E, Mora T, Walczak A, Cazals F, Sunyer O, Fillatreau S, Boudinot P. Frontiers in Immunology (2018). [ journal ]
	Invasions of Host-Associated Microbiome Networks Murall CL, Abbate JL, Puelma Touzel M, Allen-Vercoe E, Alizon S, Froissart R, & McCann K. Chapter in "Networks of Invasion: Empirical Evidence and Case Studies". Advances in Ecological Research (2017). [ journal \| pdf ]
	Cellular dynamics and stable chaos in balanced networks PhD Thesis, University of Goettingen (2015). [ online library ]
	Complete Firing-Rate Response of Neurons with Complex Intrinsic Dynamics Puelma Touzel M, & Wolf F. PLoS Computational Biology (2015). [ journal ]
	Dynamical models of cortical circuits Wolf F, Engelken R, Puelma-Touzel M, Weidinger JDF, & Neef A. Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014). [ journal \| pdf ]
	Optimal bounded-error strategies for projective measurements in nonorthogonal-state discrimination Touzel MAP, Adamson RBA, & Steinberg AM. Physical Review A (2007). [ journal \| preprint ]