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Chitta Baral

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

41 papers at tracked venues · 23 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

Venues

Frequent coauthors

Yezhou Yang
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Agneet Chatterjee
×8
Maitreya Patel
×8
Mihir Parmar
×8
Tejas Gokhale
×7
Amir Saeidi
×5
Md Nayem Uddin
×5
Mutsumi Nakamura
×5
Aswin RRV
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Neeraj Varshney
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Venkatesh Mishra
×4
Vivek Gupta
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Papers

  1. FAMA: Failure-Aware Meta-Agentic Framework for Open-Source LLMs in Interactive Tool Use Environments
    ACL 2026 ·
    Amir Saeidi
    ,
    Venkatesh Mishra
    ,
    Souradeep Mukhopadhyay
    ,
    Gaowen Liu
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Jayanth Srinivasa
    , Chitta Baral
  2. From Recall to Forgetting: Benchmarking Long-Term Memory for Personalized Agents
    ACL 2026 ·
    Md Nayem Uddin
    ,
    Kumar Shubham
    ,
    Eduardo Blanco
    , Chitta Baral,
    Gengyu Wang
  3. MMTabReal: Real-World Benchmark for Multimodal Table Understanding
    ACL 2026 ·
    Prasham Yatinkumar Titiya
    ,
    Jainil Trivedi
    , Chitta Baral,
    Vivek Gupta
  4. The Perceptual Observatory Characterizing Robustness and Grounding in MLLMs
    WACV 2026 ·
    Tejas Anvekar
    ,
    Fenil Denish Bardoliya
    ,
    Pavan K. Turaga
    , Chitta Baral,
    Vivek Gupta
  5. AcT2I: Evaluating and Improving Action Depiction in Text-to-Image Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Vatsal Malaviya
    ,
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
    , Chitta Baral
  6. ActionReasoningBench: Reasoning about Actions with and without Ramification Constraints
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Divij Handa
    ,
    Pavel Dolin
    ,
    Shrinidhi Kumbhar
    ,
    Tran Cao Son
    , Chitta Baral
  7. EraseFlow: Learning Concept Erasure Policies via GFlowNet-Driven Alignment
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Naga Sai Abhiram Kusumba
    ,
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Kyle Min
    ,
    Changhoon Kim
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  8. GETReason: Enhancing Image Context Extraction through Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reasoning
    ACL 2025 ·
    Shikhhar Siingh
    ,
    Abhinav Rawat
    , Chitta Baral,
    Vivek Gupta
  9. How Can Input Reformulation Improve Tool Usage Accuracy in a Complex Dynamic Environment? A Study on tau-bench
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Venkatesh Mishra
    ,
    Amir Saeidi
    ,
    Satyam Raj
    ,
    Mutsumi Nakamura
    ,
    Gaowen Liu
    ,
    Ali Payani
    ,
    Jayanth Srinivasa
    , Chitta Baral
  10. Hypothesis Generation for Materials Discovery and Design Using Goal-Driven and Constraint-Guided LLM Agents
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Shrinidhi Kumbhar
    ,
    Venkatesh Mishra
    ,
    Kevin Coutinho
    ,
    Divij Handa
    ,
    Ashif Iquebal
    , Chitta Baral
  11. Insights into Alignment: Evaluating DPO and its Variants Across Multiple Tasks
    ACL 2025 ·
    Amir Saeidi
    ,
    Shivanshu Verma
    ,
    Md Nayem Uddin
    , Chitta Baral
  12. Investigating the Shortcomings of LLMs in Step-by-Step Legal Reasoning
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Venkatesh Mishra
    ,
    Bimsara Pathiraja
    ,
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Sat Chidananda
    ,
    Jayanth Srinivasa
    ,
    Gaowen Liu
    ,
    Ali Payani
    , Chitta Baral
  13. Map&Make: Schema Guided Text to Table Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Naman Ahuja
    ,
    Fenil Denish Bardoliya
    , Chitta Baral,
    Vivek Gupta
  14. PLAN-TUNING: Post-Training Language Models to Learn Step-by-Step Planning for Complex Problem Solving
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Palash Goyal
    ,
    Xin Liu
    ,
    Yiwen Song
    ,
    Mingyang Ling
    , Chitta Baral,
    Hamid Palangi
    ,
    Tomas Pfister
  15. PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Xin Liu
    ,
    Palash Goyal
    ,
    Yanfei Chen
    ,
    Long T. Le
    ,
    Swaroop Mishra
    ,
    Hossein Mobahi
    ,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Zifeng Wang
    ,
    Hootan Nakhost
    , Chitta Baral,
    Chen-Yu Lee
    ,
    Tomas Pfister
    ,
    Hamid Palangi
  16. QA-LIGN: Aligning LLMs through Constitutionally Decomposed QA
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jacob Dineen
    ,
    Aswin RRV
    ,
    Qin Liu
    ,
    Zhikun Xu
    ,
    Xiao Ye
    ,
    Ming Shen
    ,
    Zhaonan Li
    ,
    Shijie Lu
    , Chitta Baral,
    Muhao Chen
    ,
    Ben Zhou
  17. RefEdit: A Benchmark and Method for Improving Instruction-Based Image Editing Model on Referring Expressions
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Bimsara Pathiraja
    ,
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Shivam Singh
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
    , Chitta Baral
  18. Stable Cinemetrics : Structured Taxonomy and Evaluation for Professional Video Generation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Rahim Entezari
    ,
    Maksym Zhuravinskyi
    ,
    Maksim Lapin
    ,
    Reshinth Adithyan
    ,
    Amit Raj
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
    ,
    Varun Jampani
  19. TextInVision: Text and Prompt Complexity Driven Visual Text Generation Benchmark
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Forouzan Fallah
    ,
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Vlad I. Morariu
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  20. ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Aswin RRV
    ,
    Jacob Dineen
    ,
    Divij Handa
    ,
    Md Nayem Uddin
    ,
    Mihir Parmar
    , Chitta Baral,
    Ben Zhou
  21. ToW: Thoughts of Words Improve Reasoning in Large Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Zhikun Xu
    ,
    Ming Shen
    ,
    Jacob Dineen
    ,
    Zhaonan Li
    ,
    Xiao Ye
    ,
    Shijie Lu
    ,
    Aswin RRV
    , Chitta Baral,
    Ben Zhou
  22. UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Md Nayem Uddin
    ,
    Amir Saeidi
    ,
    Divij Handa
    ,
    Agastya Seth
    ,
    Tran Cao Son
    ,
    Eduardo Blanco
    ,
    Steven R. Corman
    , Chitta Baral
  23. VOILA: Evaluation of MLLMs For Perceptual Understanding and Analogical Reasoning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Nilay Yilmaz
    ,
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Yiran Lawrence Luo
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    , Chitta Baral,
    Suren Jayasuriya
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
  24. "Len or index or count, anything but v1": Predicting Variable Names in Decompilation Output with Transfer Learning
    S&P 2024 ·
    Kuntal Kumar Pal
    ,
    Ati Priya Bajaj
    ,
    Pratyay Banerjee
    ,
    Audrey Dutcher
    ,
    Mutsumi Nakamura
    ,
    Zion Leonahenahe Basque
    ,
    Himanshu Gupta
    ,
    Saurabh Arjun Sawant
    ,
    Ujjwala Anantheswaran
    ,
    Yan Shoshitaishvili
    ,
    Adam Doupé
    , Chitta Baral,
    Ruoyu Wang
  25. Chaos with Keywords: Exposing Large Language Models Sycophancy to Misleading Keywords and Evaluating Defense Strategies
    ACL 2024 ·
    Aswin RRV
    ,
    Nemika Tyagi
    ,
    Md Nayem Uddin
    ,
    Neeraj Varshney
    , Chitta Baral
  26. ConceptBed: Evaluating Concept Learning Abilities of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  27. ECLIPSE: A Resource-Efficient Text-to-Image Prior for Image Generations
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Changhoon Kim
    ,
    Sheng Cheng
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  28. Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models across Distribution Shifts and Augmentations
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Aayush Atul Verma
    ,
    Amir Saeidi
    ,
    Shamanthak Hegde
    ,
    Ajay Therala
    ,
    Fenil Denish Bardoliya
    ,
    Nagaraju Machavarapu
    ,
    Shri Ajay Kumar Ravindhiran
    ,
    Srija Malyala
    ,
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
    , Chitta Baral
  29. Getting it Right: Improving Spatial Consistency in Text-to-Image Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Gabriela Ben Melech Stan
    ,
    Estelle Aflalo
    ,
    Sayak Paul
    ,
    Dhruba Ghosh
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    ,
    Ludwig Schmidt
    ,
    Hannaneh Hajishirzi
    ,
    Vasudev Lal
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  30. Grounding Stylistic Domain Generalization with Quantitative Domain Shift Measures and Synthetic Scene Images
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Yiran Luo
    ,
    Joshua Feinglass
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    ,
    Kuan-Cheng Lee
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  31. InstructABSA: Instruction Learning for Aspect Based Sentiment Analysis
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Kevin Scaria
    ,
    Himanshu Gupta
    ,
    Siddharth Goyal
    ,
    Saurabh Arjun Sawant
    ,
    Swaroop Mishra
    , Chitta Baral
  32. Investigating Acceleration of LLaMA Inference by Enabling Intermediate Layer Decoding via Instruction Tuning with 'LITE'
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Neeraj Varshney
    ,
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Mihir Parmar
    , Chitta Baral
  33. Learning Temporally Composable Task Segmentations with Language
    IROS 2024 ·
    Divyanshu Raj
    ,
    Omkar Patil
    ,
    Weiwei Gu
    , Chitta Baral,
    Nakul Gopalan
  34. LogicBench: Towards Systematic Evaluation of Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Nisarg Patel
    ,
    Neeraj Varshney
    ,
    Mutsumi Nakamura
    ,
    Man Luo
    ,
    Santosh Mashetty
    ,
    Arindam Mitra
    , Chitta Baral
  35. Lost in Translation? Translation Errors and Challenges for Fair Assessment of Text-to-Image Models on Multilingual Concepts
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Yiran Luo
    ,
    Sharon Levy
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
    ,
    William Yang Wang
  36. Multi-LogiEval: Towards Evaluating Multi-Step Logical Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nisarg Patel
    ,
    Mohith Kulkarni
    ,
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Aashna Budhiraja
    ,
    Mutsumi Nakamura
    ,
    Neeraj Varshney
    , Chitta Baral
  37. On the Robustness of Language Guidance for Low-Level Vision Tasks: Findings from Depth Estimation
    CVPR 2024 ·
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang
  38. REVISION: Rendering Tools Enable Spatial Fidelity in Vision-Language Models
    ECCV 2024 ·
    Agneet Chatterjee
    ,
    Yiran Luo
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
    , Chitta Baral
  39. Step-by-Step Reasoning to Solve Grid Puzzles: Where do LLMs Falter?
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Nemika Tyagi
    ,
    Mihir Parmar
    ,
    Mohith Kulkarni
    ,
    Aswin RRV
    ,
    Nisarg Patel
    ,
    Mutsumi Nakamura
    ,
    Arindam Mitra
    , Chitta Baral
  40. The Art of Defending: A Systematic Evaluation and Analysis of LLM Defense Strategies on Safety and Over-Defensiveness
    ACL 2024 ·
    Neeraj Varshney
    ,
    Pavel Dolin
    ,
    Agastya Seth
    , Chitta Baral
  41. TripletCLIP: Improving Compositional Reasoning of CLIP via Synthetic Vision-Language Negatives
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Maitreya Patel
    ,
    Abhiram Kusumba
    ,
    Sheng Cheng
    ,
    Changhoon Kim
    ,
    Tejas Gokhale
    , Chitta Baral,
    Yezhou Yang