Akshara Prabhakar

Jun '24	Joined Salesforce Research as an Applied Scientist.
Sep '23	Named a Siebel Scholar (Class of 2024)!
Jun '23	Joining Microsoft as an Applied Scientist intern with the Ads team.
Jan '23	Invited for Citadel Security Women's Datathon 2023 final onsite held in Miami, FL.
Oct '22	Awarded Institute Gold medal by National Institute of Technology Karnataka for securing highest GPA in my batch.
Apr '22	Paper accepted in NAACL 2022 main conference!
Feb '22	Awarded AAAI 2022 Student Scholarship.
Jan '22	My Bachelors thesis work is accepted in CISS 2022!

Deciphering the Factors Influencing the Efficacy of Chain-of-Thought: Probability, Memorization, and Noisy Reasoning
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2024 Findings)
[Paper] [Code]
Akshara Prabhakar, Thomas L. Griffiths, R. Thomas McCoy

xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems
[Technical Report]
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

Exploring Reasoning and Interactive Benchmarking of Language Models
M.S.E. Thesis, Princeton Univeristy (2024)
[Thesis] [Slides]
Akshara Prabhakar

Language Models as Science Tutors
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2024); also in Data-Centric Machine Learning Research Workshop @ ICLR 2024
[Paper] [Code]
Alexis Chevalier, Jiayi Geng, Alexander Wettig, Howard Chen, Sebastian Mizera, Simon Machado, Arturo Rodriguez Fanlo, Simon Frieder, Zirui Wang, Akshara Prabhakar, Jiachen T. Wang, Xindi Wu, Mengzhou Xia, Wenhan Xia, Jiatong Yu, Ellie Thieu, Max Aragon, Zhiyong Ren, Junjie Zhu, Toni Annala, Sanjeev Arora, Danqi Chen

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

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

Diagnostic Code Group Prediction by Integrating Structured & Unstructured Clinical Data
9th International Conference on Big Data Analytics (BDA 2021)
[Paper] [Video] [Slides]
A short version was accepted at the Young Researchers' Symposium of ACM India KDD CoDS-COMAD 2021!
[Paper] [Slides]
Akshara Prabhakar*, Shidharth S*, Gokul S Krishnan and Sowmya Kamath S

Study of a Hybrid Approach Towards Malware Detection in Executable Files
6th International Conference on Cyber Security and Privacy in Communication Networks 2020
Published in Springer Nature Computer Science journal Volume 2
[Paper]
Akshara Prabhakar, Bhawana Rudra