12 papers
Best Friends, Not Forever: Evaluating Long-Horizon Persona Collapse and Behavioral Drift in AI Companions
Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Akshara Prabhakar, Yu Li +2
As AI companions increasingly mediate repeated social interaction, users may rely on a stable role and shared history, yet locally acceptable replies do not ensure that either pers…
Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment
Grace Hui Yang, Pranav N. Venkit, Hooman Sedghamiz +3
Agentic systems large language model (LLM) based architectures capable of reasoning, planning, acting, and coordinating with tools and other agents are rapidly transitioning from r…
Jury Duty: Calibration and Orientation Failures in MLLM-as-a-Judge Under Cultural Ambiguity
Daniel Lee, Harsh Sharma, Eunkyu Park +5
MLLM-as-a-Judge is conventionally validated by agreement with human annotations, but this metric is undefined when the human pool is culturally heterogeneous. We introduce VOIR DIR…
Seeing is Believing? Evaluating Vision-Language Model Susceptibility in Agent-to-Agent Multimodal Persuasion
Haoyi Qiu, Yilun Zhou, Pranav Narayanan Venkit +4
As autonomous agents increasingly interact, they inevitably attempt to influence one another. While prior work in text-only settings has explored the dynamics of Agent-to-Agent (A2…
What if AI systems weren't chatbots?
Sourojit Ghosh, Pranav Narayanan Venkit, Sanjana Gautam +1
The rapid convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) toward conversational chatbot interfaces marks a critical moment for the industry. This paper argues that the chatbot paradigm…
Dont Stop Early: Scalable Enterprise Deep Research with Controlled Information Flow and Evidence-Aware Termination
Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Kung-Hsiang Huang, Pranav Narayanan Venkit +5
Enterprise deep research often fails to produce decision-ready reports due to uneven information coverage, context explosion, and premature stopping. We propose a scalable Enterpri…