Patrick Batsell

Patrick Batsell

Operations Research and Statistics @ Rice University

Interested in synthetic data and generative models.

About

I'm an undergraduate at Rice University studying Operations Research and Statistics. I am interested in problems at the intersection of machine learning theory and generative modeling, with a focus on understanding how DGNs behave when trained on synthetic data.

Research Interests:

Publications

Benchmarking Attribute Discrimination in Infant-Scale Vision-Language Models

Patrick Batsell, Satoshi Tsutsui, Bihan Wen

Accepted at ICIP 2026 and CVPR 2026 Workshop on Cognitive Foundations for Multimodal Models

A Geometric Perspective on Recursive Synthetic Training

Patrick Batsell, Thomas Walker, Richard Baraniuk

ICLR 2026 Workshop on Deep Generative Models (DeLTa)