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Longer-form essays and writing on Substack.

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Joyce, Steinberg, and Acher: A Literary Analysis on the Consciousness of Heresy

Columbia Academic Review of Ideas, 2022

Shmuel Berman

What Doe We Do About the Deer?

What Doe We Do About the Deer?

New York Daily News, 2021

Shmuel Berman

The Reconstruction Of Jewish Divinity Through Source Reinterpretation

Columbia Academic Review of Ideas, 2021

Shmuel Berman

If We Treat Climate Change Like COVID, We Will Fail

If We Treat Climate Change Like COVID, We Will Fail

Asbury Park Press, 2020

Shmuel Berman

Technical Papers

Research papers, preprints, and technical writing.

Good Memory Has ECC: Evaluating the Memory of Vision-Language Models Beyond Accuracy

Good Memory Has ECC: Evaluating the Memory of Vision-Language Models Beyond Accuracy

Preprint, 2026

Shmuel Berman, Jia Deng

Claude plays robotics

Claude plays robotics

Anthropic, 2026

Shmuel Berman, Michael Ilie, Jia Deng, Daniel Freeman

VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs

VLMs have Tunnel Vision: Evaluating Nonlocal Visual Reasoning in Leading VLMs

NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

Shmuel Berman, Jia Deng

Solving Zebra Puzzles Using Constraint-Guided Multi-Agent Systems

Solving Zebra Puzzles Using Constraint-Guided Multi-Agent Systems

Preprint, 2024

Shmuel Berman, Kathleen McKeown, Baishakhi Ray

Programming-by-Example by Programming-by-Example: Synthesis of Looping Programs

Programming-by-Example by Programming-by-Example: Synthesis of Looping Programs

SPLASH 2021

Shmuel Berman

Intra-update Sniping Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

Intra-update Sniping Vulnerabilities in Smart Contracts

CONFLANG 2021

Mark Santolucito, Shmuel Berman, Brennen Yu, Stella Lessler