Papers by Rithesh R N
PersonaBench: Evaluating AI Models on Understanding Personal Information through Accessing (Synthetic) Private User Data (2025.findings-acl)
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Juntao Tan, Liangwei Yang, Zuxin Liu, Zhiwei Liu, Rithesh R N, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Jianguo Zhang, Weiran Yao, Ming Zhu, Shirley Kokane, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang, Caiming Xiong, Shelby Heinecke
| Challenge: | Existing research lacks direct access to such data, making benchmarking difficult due to privacy concerns. |
| Approach: | They propose a synthetic data pipeline that generates realistic user profiles and private documents and a benchmark to evaluate models' ability to understand personal information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline generates realistic user profiles and private documents, enabling PersonaBench, a benchmark for evaluating models’ ability to understand personal information. |
xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems (2025.naacl-long)
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Jianguo Zhang, Tian Lan, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Thai Quoc Hoang, Shirley Kokane, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Rithesh R N, Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
| Challenge: | Autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have attracted significant research interest, but there are few standards for developing specialized models for agent tasks. |
| Approach: | They propose a series of large action models with dense and mixture-of-expert architectures that unifies, augments, and synthesizes diverse datasets to enhance agent generalizability and performance. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform GPT-4, Claude-3, and many other models in terms of tool use and outperformed GPT-based models on multiple agent ability benchmarks. |