Publications




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EASE Configuration Facilitates A Reproducible Science of LLM Social Simulations

Sarangi S, Puelma Touzel M, Bück-Kaeffer A, Yang Z, Godbout JF, Rabbany R (2026)

Position: Time to Close The Validation Gap in LLM Social Simulations

Puelma Touzel M, Sarangi S, Bück-Kaeffer A, Yang Z, Godbout JF, Rabbany R · ICML (2026)

Position: Collusion Risks Among AI Reasoning Agents Justify Certification Requirements for Making Market Decisions

Riemer M, Tosato T, Memarian A, Puelma Touzel M, Berseth G, Rish I, Dumas G · ICML (2026)

The fitness landscape of social norms in social dilemmas

Puelma Touzel M. (2026)

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 · PALS Workshop @ EMNLP 2025 (2025)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Ideology from topic mixture statistics: Inference method and example application to carbon tax public opinion

Puelma Touzel M, Lachapelle E. · Environmental Data Science (2024)

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)

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)

Continual Learning In Environments With Polynomial Mixing Times

Riemer M*, Chandra Raparthy S*, Cases I, Subbaraj G, Puelma Touzel M, Rish I. · NeurIPS (2022)

Deliberation gated by opportunity cost adapts to context with urgency

Puelma Touzel M, Cisek P, Lajoie G. · PLoS Computational Biology (2022)

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)

Inferring the immune response from repertoire sequencing

Puelma Touzel M, Walczak A, Mora T. · PLoS Computational Biology (2020)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Cellular dynamics and stable chaos in balanced networks

· PhD Thesis, University of Goettingen (2015)

Complete Firing-Rate Response of Neurons with Complex Intrinsic Dynamics

Puelma Touzel M, & Wolf F. · PLoS Computational Biology (2015)

Dynamical models of cortical circuits

Wolf F, Engelken R, Puelma-Touzel M, Weidinger JDF, & Neef A. · Current Opinion in Neurobiology (2014)

Optimal bounded-error strategies for projective measurements in nonorthogonal-state discrimination

Touzel MAP, Adamson RBA, & Steinberg AM. · Physical Review A (2007)

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