Publications
Publications
When Thinking Fails: The Pitfalls of Reasoning for Instruction-Following in LLMs. X. Li, Z. Yu, Z. Zhang, X. Chen, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhuang, N. Sadagopan, A. Beniwal. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS 2025, Spotlight).
Semantic Volume: Quantifying and Detecting Both External and Internal Uncertainty in LLMs. X. Li, Z. Yu, Z. Zhang, Y. Zhuang, S. Shah, N. Sadagopan, A. Beniwal. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2026).
TRIM: Hybrid Inference via Targeted Stepwise Routing in Multi-Step Reasoning Tasks. V. Kapoor, A. Gupta, H. Chen, A. Beniwal, J. Huang, A. Kumar. arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.10245.
Beyond Correctness: Harmonizing Process and Outcome Rewards through RL Training. C. Ye, Z. Yu, Z. Zhang, H. Chen, N. Sadagopan, J. Huang, T. Zhang, A. Beniwal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03403.
REIC: RAG-Enhanced Intent Classification at Scale. Z. Zhang, M. Yang, Z. Chen, Y. Zhuang, S.T. Pi, Q. Liu, R. Maragoud, A. Beniwal. Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
TOD-ProcBench: Benchmarking Complex Instruction-Following in Task-Oriented Dialogues. S. Ghazarian, A. Gullapalli, S. Shah, A. Beniwal, N. Peng, N. Sadagopan. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.15976.
Multilingual Information Retrieval with a Monolingual Knowledge Base. Y. Zhuang, A. Gupta, A. Beniwal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.02527.
How and Where to Translate? The Impact of Translation Strategies in Cross-lingual LLM Prompting. A. Gupta, Y. Zhuang, Z. Yu, Z. Zhang, A. Beniwal. arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22923.
Machine Learning Framework for Personalized Clothing Compatibility. A. Beniwal, M. Taraviya, L. Davis, Y. Lin. US Patent US012248872B1.
Rethinking Alignment in Cross-Lingual Knowledge Transfer. X. Bai, Y. Zhuang, Z. Yu, J. Huang, Z. Zhang, A. Gupta, A. Beniwal.
DARD: A Multi-Agent Approach for Task-Oriented Dialog Systems. A. Gupta, A. Ravichandran, Z. Zhang, S. Shah, A. Beniwal, N. Sadagopan. arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.00427 (NeurIPS 2024 Workshop).
Assessment and Mitigation of Inconsistencies in LLM-Based Evaluations. S. Ghazarian, Y. Zou, S. Shah, N. Peng, A. Beniwal, C. Potts, N. Sadagopan.
MERLIN: Multiple Enhanced Representations with LLM Generated Indices. A. Ravichandran, Y. Zou, J. Baskar, A. Beniwal. The Second Workshop on Generative Information Retrieval (SIGIR 2024).
OutfitTransformer: Learning Outfit Representations for Fashion Recommendation. R. Sarkar, N. Bodla, M.I. Vasileva, Y.L. Lin, A. Beniwal, A. Lu, G. Medioni. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV 2023, Spotlight).
Self-Supervised Pre-Training and Semi-Supervised Learning for Extractive Dialog Summarization. Y. Zhuang, J. Song, N. Sadagopan, A. Beniwal. Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023.
OutfitTransformer: Outfit Representations for Fashion Recommendation. R. Sarkar, N. Bodla, M. Vasileva, Y.L. Lin, A. Beniwal, A. Lu, G. Medioni. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR 2022 Workshop).
RecXplainer: Amortized Attribute-based Personalized Explanations for Recommender Systems. S. Verma, C. Shah, J.P. Dickerson, A. Beniwal, N. Sadagopan, A. Seshadri. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.14935. (Earlier version: Progress and Challenges in Building Trustworthy Embodied AI, NeurIPS 2022 Workshop, Best Student Paper.)
Contrastive Learning for Interactive Recommendation in Fashion. K. Sevegnani, A. Seshadri, T. Wang, A. Beniwal, J. McAuley, A. Lu, G. Medioni. arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.12033.
Low Resource Retrieval Augmented Adaptive Neural Machine Translation. H. Vardhan, A. Beniwal, N. Sadagopan, S. Shah.
PSANet: Subspace Attention for Personalized Compatibility. M. Taraviya, A. Beniwal, Y.L. Lin, L. Davis. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM 2021).
Personalized Compatibility Metric Learning. M. Taraviya, A. Beniwal, Y.L. Lin, L. Davis.
Large Scale Cloud Deployment of Spectral Topic Modeling. C. Swierczewski, S. Bodapati, A. Beniwal, D. Leen, A. Anandkumar. ParLearning Workshop.
Trends in Hospice Discharge, Documented Inpatient Palliative Care Services and Inpatient Mortality in Ovarian Carcinoma. S. Uppal, L.W. Rice, A. Beniwal, R.J. Spencer. Gynecologic Oncology, 2016