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

Accepted @ 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