Bob Mankoff

Researcher, Psychology, Cartoon Collections

Joined

July 2019

Names

Bob Mankoff

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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****@cartooncollections.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Psychology, Cartoon Collections (cartooncollections.com)

2018 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor

2022 – Present

Expertise

Ai and Humor

2015 – Present

Publications

Which LLMs Get the Joke? Probing Non-STEM Reasoning Abilities with HumorBench
Reuben Narad, Siddharth Suresh, Jiayi Chen, Pine S.L. Dysart-Bricken, Bob Mankoff, Robert D Nowak, Jifan Zhang, Lalit K Jain
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Learning to Think Like a Cartoon Captionist: Humor Understanding With Multimodal Reasoning Models
Hatice Merve Vural, Doğa Kukul, Ege Erdem Özlü, Demir Ekin Arıkan, Bob Mankoff, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Humor in AI: Massive Scale Crowd-Sourced Preferences and Benchmarks for Cartoon Captioning
Jifan Zhang, Lalit K Jain, Yang Guo, Jiayi Chen, Kuan Lok Zhou, Siddharth Suresh, Andrew Wagenmaker, Scott Sievert, Timothy T. Rogers, Kevin Jamieson, Bob Mankoff, Robert D Nowak
- NeurIPS 2024 Track Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
A KL-LUCB algorithm for Large-Scale Crowdsourcing
Ervin Tanczos, Robert Nowak, Bob Mankoff
- 2017 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2017
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors