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Technical advisors and distinguished affiliates

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Stephen Bach

Brown University
Eliot Horowitz Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department
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Jason Fries

Stanford University
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Medicine
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Jared Dunnmon

Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Stealth Startup
Prev. Dir. of AI at DIU
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Fred Sala

Chief Scientist
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Snorkel AI
Assistant Professor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Chris Ré

Co-Founder
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Snorkel AI
Professor @ Stanford University
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Ludwig Schmidt

Stanford University · LAION
Stanford researcher and LAION collaborator
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Karthik Narasimhan

Princeton University
Professor of Computer Science
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Yu Su

Ohio State University
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
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Lewis Tunstall

Hugging Face
Machine Learning Engineer
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Terminal-Bench 2.0: Raising the bar for AI agent evaluation
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Terminal-Bench 2.0: Raising the bar for AI agent evaluation

Terminal-Bench 2.0 launches today, marking a major leap in AI agent evaluation. Snorkel AI contributed key research and task design to this release.

Nov 07, 2025
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Snorkeling in RL environments
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Snorkeling in RL environments

We unpack what makes a high-quality RL environment for LLMs and show how we build realistic, enterprise-grade environments at Snorkel AI.

Nov 04, 2025
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Automating benchmark design
The rapid progress and widespread deployment of LLMs and LLM-powered agents has outpaced our ability to evaluate them. Hand-crafted, static benchmarks are the primary tool for assessing model capabilities, but these quickly become saturated. In contrast, dynamic benchmarks evolve alongside the models they evaluate, but are expensive to create and continuously update. To address these challenges, we develop BeTaL (Benchmark Tuning with an LLM-in-the-loop), a framework that leverages environment design principles to automate the process of dynamic benchmark design. BeTaL works by parameterizing key design choices in base benchmark templates and uses LLMs to reason through the resulting parameter space...
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Automating benchmark design

The rapid progress and widespread deployment of LLMs and LLM-powered agents has outpaced our ability to evaluate them. Hand-crafted, static benchmarks are the primary tool for assessing model capabilities, but these quickly become saturated. In contrast, dynamic benchmarks evolve alongside the models they evaluate, but are expensive to create and continuously update. To address these challenges, we develop BeTaL (Benchmark…

Oct 30, 2025

Amanda Dsouza, Harit Vishwakarma, Zhengyang Qi, Justin Bauer, Derek Pham, Thomas Walshe, Armin Parchami, Frederic Sala, Paroma Varma

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Introducing SnorkelSpatial
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Introducing SnorkelSpatial

A procedurally generated and programmatically verified benchmark for evaluating spatial reasoning capabilities in LLMs Large language models (LLMs) are showing remarkable results on solving complex reasoning problems across domains—from mathematical proofs and logical puzzles to graduate-level science and engineering questions. On the other hand, their spatial reasoning capabilities are less understood, even though such reasoning underlies many everyday tasks. We…

Oct 24, 2025
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LLM-Integrated Bayesian State Space Models for Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting
Forecasting in the real world requires integrating structured time-series data with unstructured textual information, but existing methods are architecturally limited by fixed input/output horizons and are unable to model or quantify uncertainty. We address this challenge by introducing LLM-integrated Bayesian State space models (LBS), a novel probabilistic framework for multimodal temporal forecasting. At a high level, LBS consists of two components: (1) a state space model (SSM) backbone that captures the temporal dynamics of latent states from which both numerical and textual observations are generated and (2) a pretrained large language model (LLM) that is adapted to encode textual inputs...
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LLM-Integrated Bayesian State Space Models for Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting

Forecasting in the real world requires integrating structured time-series data with unstructured textual information, but existing methods are architecturally limited by fixed input/output horizons and are unable to model or quantify uncertainty. We address this challenge by introducing LLM-integrated Bayesian State space models (LBS), a novel probabilistic framework for multimodal temporal forecasting. At a high level, LBS consists of two…

Oct 23, 2025

Sungjun Cho, Changho Shin, Suenggwan Jo, Xinya Yan, Shourjo Aditya Chaudhuri, Frederic Sala

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Scaling trust: rubrics in Snorkel’s quality process
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Scaling trust: rubrics in Snorkel’s quality process

Snorkel’s “Trusted Scale” philosophy Welcome to Part 4 of Snorkel AI’s rubric series. In previous posts, we explored how rubrics enable structured evaluation (Part 1), the spectrum of rubric types and use cases (Part 2), and the science behind designing and validating them (Part 3). In this latest installment, we pull back the curtain on how Snorkel puts these principles…

Oct 16, 2025
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Evaluating multi-agent systems in enterprise tool use
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Evaluating multi-agent systems in enterprise tool use

In recent months, there has been increasing interest in the area of multi-agent systems and how they can be used to solve more complex tasks than a single agent could accomplish on its own. The topic is particularly interesting and raises several questions and ideas to consider: Anthropic’s blog post about how they architected a multi-agent deep research system is…

Oct 09, 2025
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Evaluating coding agent capabilities with Terminal-Bench: Snorkel’s role in building the next generation benchmark
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Evaluating coding agent capabilities with Terminal-Bench: Snorkel’s role in building the next generation benchmark

Terminal-Bench, developed through a collaboration between Stanford University and Laude Institute, has quickly become the gold standard benchmark for evaluating AI agent capabilities in a command line environment. This comprehensive evaluation framework measures how effectively AI agents can perform complex, real-world tasks within terminal environments. At Snorkel AI, we’re excited to share that we’re one of the top collaborators contributing…

Sep 30, 2025
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Parsing isn’t neutral: why evaluation choices matter
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Parsing isn’t neutral: why evaluation choices matter

Behind every AI benchmark is a hidden choice: how to read the model’s answers. That choice—parsing—can quietly tilt results more than the model itself. Parsing is where we take an AI system’s raw response and extract the “answer” we use for scoring. It sounds mechanical, but as our research shows, the choice of parser can dramatically change measured accuracy. In…

Sep 26, 2025
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