Arnav Yayavaram

Graduate Student @ CMU LTI

Research

Publications

Selected papers and ongoing work.

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  1. 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

    Accepted at ICML 2026

  2. 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 and EACL, 2026

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  3. 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

    Paper / Code

  4. 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 at ACM SIGIR 2026

  5. Interpretable Feature Optimization for Sadness Recognition in Speech Emotion Analysis

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

    Published in IEEE Intelligent Systems, 2024

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