← Search

Praveen Venkateswaran

5 accepted papers

2025

OptiSeq: Ordering Examples On-The-Fly for In-Context Learning

EMNLP 2025

Developers using LLMs and LLM-based agents in their applications have provided plenty of anecdotal evidencethat in-context-learning (ICL) is fragile. In this paper, we show that in addition to the quantity and quality of examples, the order in which the in-context examples are listed in the prompt a

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Granite-Function Calling Model: Introducing Function Calling Abilities via Multi-task Learning of Granular Tasks

EMNLP 2024industry

An emergent research trend explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) as the backbone of agentic systems (e.g., SWE-Bench, Agent-Bench). To fulfill LLMs’ potential as autonomous agents, they must be able to identify, call, and interact with a variety of external tools and application program i…

2024

Who Knows the Answer? Finding the Best Model and Prompt for Each Query Using Confidence-Based Search

AAAI 2024technical

There are increasingly many large language models (LLMs) available to the public. While these LLMs have exhibited impressive abilities on a variety of task, any individual LLM in particular may do well on some tasks and worse on others. Additionally, the performance of these models is heavily depend…

2023

DiSTRICT: Dialogue State Tracking with Retriever Driven In-Context Tuning

EMNLP 2023long main

Dialogue State Tracking (DST), a key component of task-oriented conversation systems, represents user intentions by determining the values of pre-defined slots in an ongoing dialogue. Existing approaches use hand-crafted templates and additional slot information to fine-tune and prompt large pre-tr…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Towards large language model-based personal agents in the enterprise: Current trends and open problems

EMNLP 2023long findings

There is an emerging trend to use large language models (LLMs) to reason about complex goals and orchestrate a set of pluggable tools or APIs to accomplish a goal. This functionality could, among other use cases, be used to build personal assistants for knowledge workers. While there are impressive…

Cited by 0SourceScholar