I enjoy applied/product research to solve real-world tasks.
My current works revolve around benchmarking large language models, training language agents and understanding their cognitive aspects.
I am fortunate to have studied and worked at some wonderful places!
Enterprise Deep Research: Steerable Multi-Agent Deep Research for Enterprise Analytics
Technical Report, Salesforce AI Research (2025)
[Paper][Code] Akshara Prabhakar, Roshan Ram, Zixiang Chen, Silvio Savarese, Frank Wang, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang, Weiran Yao
UserBench: An Interactive Gym Environment for User-Centric Agents
Scaling Environments for Agents Workshop @ Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025)
[Paper][Code]
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar, Zhiwei Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Haolin Chen, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS
2025) - Datasets and Benchmarks
[Paper][Project] Akshara Prabhakar*, Zuxin Liu*, Ming Zhu, Jianguo Zhang, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Shiyu Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Haolin Chen, Thai Hoang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Weiran Yao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
Coverage:VentureBeat,
CIO,
Yahoo Finance,
MarkTechPost,
Official Blog
CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments
Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025)
[Paper][Code]
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan, Yixin Mao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
Coverage:ZDNet,
VentureBeat,
Official Blog
xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems
Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2025)
[Paper][Code]
Jianguo Zhang*, Tian Lan*, Ming Zhu*, Zuxin Liu*, Thai Hoang*, Shirley Kokane, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Rithesh Murthy, Eric Hu, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
Coverage:Investing.com,
InfoWorld,
VentureBeat,
Official Blog
Language Models are Hidden Reasoners: Unlocking Latent Reasoning Capabilities via Self-Rewarding
[Preprint]
Haolin Chen, Yihao Feng, Zuxin Liu, Weiran Yao, Akshara Prabhakar, Shelby Heinecke, Ricky Ho, Phil Mui, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
LoRA Soups: Merging LoRAs for Practical Skill Composition Tasks
International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2025) - Industry
[Paper][Code][Poster] Akshara Prabhakar, Yuanzhi Li, Karthik Narasimhan, Sham Kakade, Eran Malach, Samy Jelassi
Deciphering the Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Chain-of-Thought: Probability, Memorization, and Noisy Reasoning
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024 Findings); also in BlackboxNLP 2024
[Paper][Code][Poster] Akshara Prabhakar, Thomas L. Griffiths, R. Thomas McCoy
Exploring Reasoning and Interactive Benchmarking of Language Models
M.S.E. Thesis, Princeton Univeristy (2024)
[Thesis][Slides] Akshara Prabhakar
InterCode: Standardizing and Benchmarking Interactive Coding
with Execution
Feedback
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS
2023) - Datasets and Benchmarks
[Paper][Code][Poster]
John Yang, Akshara
Prabhakar, Karthik
Narasimhan, Shunyu Yao
Coverage:MarktechPost
Language Agents as Hackers: Evaluating Cybersecurity Skills with Capture the Flag
Multi-Agent Security Workshop @ Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS
2023)
[Paper][Code][Poster]
John Yang, Akshara
Prabhakar, Shunyu Yao, Kexin Pei, Karthik
Narasimhan
Best Paper Award
Commonsense and Named Entity Aware Knowledge Grounded Dialogue
Generation
North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(NAACL-HLT
2022) [Paper][Code][Slides]
Deeksha Varshney, Akshara Prabhakar, Asif Ekbal
Neural Language Modeling of Unstructured Clinical Notes for
Automated Patient
Phenotyping
56th Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS 2022) [Paper][Slides] Akshara Prabhakar, Shidharth
S, Sowmya Kamath S
CL-NERIL: A Cross-Lingual Model for NER in Indian Languages
36th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) - Student
Poster [Paper][Code][Poster] Akshara Prabhakar, Gouri Sankar Majumder, Ashish Anand
Student Scholarship Award