Akil Iyer — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

WearVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark for Wearables in Egocentric Authentic Real-world scenarios

Eun Chang, Zhuangqun Huang, Yiwei Liao, Sagar Ravi Bhavsar, Amogh Param, Tammy Stark +16

NeurIPS 2025poster

We introduce WearVQA, the first benchmark specifically designed to evaluate the visual question answering (VQA) capabilities of multi-modal AI assistant on wearable devices like smart glasses. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on high-quality, third-person imagery, WearVQA reflects the unique chal-…

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2024

Graph Integrated Language Transformers for Next Action Prediction in Complex Phone Calls

Amin Marani, Ulie Schnaithmann, Youngseo Son, Akil Iyer, Manas Paldhe, Arushi Raghuvanshi

NAACL 2024industry

Current Conversational AI systems employ different machine learning pipelines, as well as external knowledge sources and business logic to predict the next action. Maintaining various components in dialogue managers’ pipeline adds complexity in expansion and updates, increases processing time, and c…

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