Akshara Prabhakar

Researcher, Salesforce AI Research

Joined

November 2021

Names

Akshara Prabhakar (Preferred)

Akshara P

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@princeton.edu (Confirmed)

****@salesforce.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Researcher

Salesforce AI Research (salesforce.com)

2024 – Present

MS student

Princeton University (princeton.edu)

2022 – 2024

Undergrad student

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (nitk.edu.in)

2018 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

No relations added

Expertise

Large Language Models

Present

Language Agents (Benchmarks & Methods)

Present

Natural Language Processing

Present

Healthcare Analytics

2020 – 2022

Publications

CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Onkar Thorat, Divyansh Agarwal, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Yixin Mao, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
Test-Time Adaptation for LLM Agents via Environment Interaction
Arthur Chen, Zuxin Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Akshara Prabhakar, Zhiwei Liu, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Victor Zhong, Caiming Xiong
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
UserRL: Training Interactive User-Centric Agent via Reinforcement Learning
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar, Jielin Qiu, Zhiwei Liu, Haolin Chen, Shirley Kokane, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Huan Wang
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
UserBench: An Interactive Gym Environment for User-Centric Agents
Cheng Qian, Zuxin Liu, Akshara Prabhakar, Zhiwei Liu, Jianguo Zhang, Haolin Chen, Heng Ji, Weiran Yao, Shelby Heinecke, Silvio Savarese, Huan Wang
- SEA @ NeurIPS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
Akshara Prabhakar, Zuxin Liu, Ming Zhu, Jianguo Zhang, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Shiyu Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Haolin Chen, Thai Quoc Hoang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Weiran Yao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
CRMArena-Pro: Holistic Assessment of LLM Agents Across Diverse Business Scenarios and Interactions
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Onkar Thorat, Divyansh Agarwal, Prafulla Kumar Choubey, Yixin Mao, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Chien-Sheng Wu
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay
Akshara Prabhakar, Zuxin Liu, Ming Zhu, Jianguo Zhang, Tulika Awalgaonkar, Shiyu Wang, Zhiwei Liu, Haolin Chen, Thai Hoang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Weiran Yao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
ToolScan: A Benchmark For Characterizing Errors In Tool-Use LLMs
Shirley Kokane, Ming Zhu, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Jianguo Zhang, Akshara Prabhakar, Thai Quoc Hoang, Zuxin Liu, Rithesh R N, Liangwei Yang, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Zhiwei Liu, Huan Wang, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese
- BuildingTrust
- Readers: Everyone
xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems
Jianguo Zhang, Tian Lan, Ming Zhu, Zuxin Liu, Thai Hoang, Shirley Kokane, Weiran Yao, Juntao Tan, Akshara Prabhakar, Haolin Chen, Zhiwei Liu, Yihao Feng, Tulika Manoj Awalgaonkar, Rithesh R. N., Zeyuan Chen, Ran Xu, Juan Carlos Niebles, Shelby Heinecke, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese et al. (1 additional authors not shown)
- NAACL (Long Papers) 2025
- Readers: Everyone
CRMArena: Understanding the Capacity of LLM Agents to Perform Professional CRM Tasks in Realistic Environments
Kung-Hsiang Huang, Akshara Prabhakar, Sidharth Dhawan, Yixin Mao, Huan Wang, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Philippe Laban, Chien-Sheng Wu
- NAACL (Long Papers) 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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