Recent Publications

2026

• BhashaKritika: Building Synthetic Pretraining Data at Scale for Indic Languages
  Guduru Manoj, Neel Prabhanjan Rachamalla, Ashish Kulkarni, Gautam Rajeev, Jay Piplodiya, Arul Menezes, Shaharukh Khan, Souvik Rana, Manya Sah, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
  AAAI 2026
  Paper

2025

• Pragyaan: Designing and Curating High-Quality Cultural Post-Training Datasets for Indian Languages
  Neel Prabhanjan Rachamalla, Aravind Konakalla, Gautam Rajeev, Ashish Kulkarni, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
  MRL, EMNLP 2025
  Paper

• BigDocs: An Open and Permissively-Licensed Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
  Juan Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay Kalkunte, François Savard, Ahmed Masry, Shravan Nayak, Rabiul Awal, Mahsa Massoud, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Zichao Li, Suyuchen Wang, Pierre-André Noël, Mats Leon Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Shubbam Agarwal, Sanket Biswas, Sara Shanian, Ying Zhang, Noah Bolger, Kurt MacDonald, Simon Fauvel, Sathwik Tejaswi, Srinivas Sunkara, Joao Monteiro, Krishnamurthy DJ Dvijotham, Torsten Scholak, Nicolas Chapados, Sepideh Kharagani, Sean Hughes, M Ozsu, Siva Reddy, Marco Pedersoli, Yoshua Bengio, Christopher Pal, Issam Laradji, Spandanna Gella, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, and Sai Rajeswar
  ICLR 2025
  Paper

• StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
  Juan A Rodriguez, Abhay Puri, Shubham Agarwal, Issam H Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Sai Rajeswar, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal and Marco Pedersoli
  CVPR 2025
  Paper

• Chitrakshara: A Large Multilingual Multimodal Dataset for Indian languages
  Shaharukh Khan, Ali Faraz, Abhinav Ravi, Mohd Nauman, Mohd Sarfraz, Akshat Patidar, Raja Kolla, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
  VLMs4ALL, CVPR 2025
  Paper

• LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?
  Shubham Agarwal, Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, Issam H Laradji, Krishnamurthy DJ Dvijotham, Jason Stanley, Laurent Charlin and Christopher Pal
  TMLR 2025
  Paper

2024

• Chitranuvad: Adapting Multi-Lingual LLMs for Multimodal Translation
  Shaharukh Khan, Ayush Tarun, Ali Faraz, Palash Kamble, Vivek Dahiya, Praveen Pokala, Ashish Kulkarni, Chandra Khatri, Abhinav Ravi, Shubham Agarwal
  WMT, EMNLP 2024
  Paper

• Chitrarth: Bridging Vision and Language for a Billion People
  Shaharukh Khan, Ayush Tarun, Abhinav Ravi, Ali Faraz, Praveen Kumar Pokala, Anagha Bhangare, Raja Kolla, Chandra Khatri, Shubham Agarwal
  MAR, NeurIPS 2024
  Paper

2023

• LitLLM: A Toolkit for Scientific Literature Review
  Shubham Agarwal, Issam H Laradji, Laurent Charlin and Christopher Pal
  Paper Video

2022

• To show or not to show: Redacting sensitive text from videos of electronic displays
  Abhishek Mukhopadhyay, Shubham Agarwal, Patrick Dylan Zwick and Pradipta Biswas
  AutoUI, ACM 2022
  Paper Video Poster

2021

• The ReproGen Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG: Overview and Results
  Anya Belz, Anastasia Shimorina, Shubham Agarwal and Ehud Reiter
  INLG 2021
  Paper

• A Systematic Review of Reproducibility Research in Natural Language Processing
  Anya Belz, Shubham Agarwal, Anastasia Shimorina and Ehud Reiter
  EACL 2021
  Paper Slides Code

2020

• History for Visual Dialog: Do we really need it?
  Shubham Agarwal, Trung Bui, Joon-Young Lee, Yannis Konstas and Verena Rieser
  ACL 2020
  Paper Talk Slides Code

• ReproGen: Proposal for a Shared Task on Reproducibility of Human Evaluations in NLG
  Anya Belz, Shubham Agarwal, Anastasia Shimorina and Ehud Reiter
  INLG 2020
  Paper

2019

• Ensemble based discriminative models for Visual Dialog Challenge 2018
  Shubham Agarwal and Raghav Goyal
  Visual Dialog Challenge, 2018
  Report Poster

2018

• Alana v2: Entertaining and Informative Open-domain Social Dialogue using Ontologies and Entity Linking
  Amanda Cercas Curry, Ioannis Papaioannou, Alessandro Suglia, Shubham Agarwal, Igor Shalyminov, Xinnuo Xu, Ondřej Dušek, Arash Eshghi, Ioannis Konstas, Verena Rieser and Oliver Lemon
  Alexa Prize proceedings, 2018
  Proceedings Poster

• A Knowledge-Grounded Multimodal Search-Based Conversational Agent
  Shubham Agarwal, Ondřej Dušek, Yannis Konstas and Verena Rieser
  EMNLP workshop, SCAI, 2018
  Paper Poster Code
  

• Improving Context Modelling in Multimodal Dialogue Generation
  Shubham Agarwal, Ondřej Dušek, Yannis Konstas and Verena Rieser
  INLG, 2018
  Paper Poster Code
  Also as Oral at SiVL, ECCV, 2018 (Retracted)
  Slides Poster

• Char2char Generation with Reranking for the E2E NLG Challenge
  Shubham Agarwal, Marc Dymetman and Eric Gaussier
  INLG, 2018
  Paper Poster

2017

• A char-based seq2seq submission to the E2E NLG Challenge
  Shubham Agarwal, Marc Dymetman and Eric Gaussier
  In the E2E NLG Challenge, 2017
  Proceedings Ranking

• A surprisingly effective out-of-the-box char2char model on the E2E NLG Challenge dataset
  Shubham Agarwal and Marc Dymetman
  Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGdial), 2017 Paper Talk Slides Poster