Publications

GameDevBench: Evaluating Agentic Capabilities Through Game Development

Wayne Chi, Yixiong Fang, Arnav Yayavaram, Siddharth Yayavaram, Seth Karten, Qiuhong Anna Wei, Runkun Chen, Alexander Wang, Valerie Chen, Ameet Talwalkar, Chris Donahue

Under Review @ ICML 2026

CAIRE: Cultural Attribution of Images by Retrieval-Augmented Evaluation

*Arnav Yayavaram, *Siddharth Yayavaram, Simran Khanuja, Michael Saxon and Graham Neubig

Published in CEGIS @ ICCV, 2025 & EACL, 2026

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BERT-based Idiom Identification using Language Translation and Word Cohesion

*Arnav Yayavaram, *Siddharth Yayavaram, Prajna Upadhyay and Apurba Das

Published in MWE-UD @ LREC-COLING, 2024

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On the Effects of Concordance and Diversity in Example Selection for Adaptive In-Context Learning

Manogna Nadella, Suryansh Chandola, Arnav Yayavaram, Siddharth Yayavaram, Kishan Abijay P, Siddharth Vijay, Varun Ravichandran, Priten Rathore, Prajna Upadhyay

Under Review @ ACM SIGIR 2026

Interpretable Feature Optimization for Sadness Recognition in Speech Emotion Analysis

*Siddharth Yayavaram, *Arnav Yayavaram, Jabez Christopher and Vasan Arunachalam

Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems (IS), 2024

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* Indicates equal contribution / co-first authors