Publications

2026

1. Masked Diffusion Language Models are Strong and Steerable Text-Based World Models for Agentic RL

   Darshan Deshpande

   NeurIPS 2026 arXiv code data

2. FigmaTrace: Capturing Creative Nuances in Human Figma Design Workflows

   Darshan Deshpande, Yoshinari Fujinuma, Martyna Markiewicz, Devanshu Bansal, Shivani Jain, Nicholas Saban, Chirag Maheshwari, Anand Kannappan

   arXiv preprint arXiv

3. Benchmarking Reward Hack Detection in Code Environments via Contrastive Analysis

   Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian

   ICML 2026 arXiv

4. DETOUR: An Interactive Benchmark for Dual-Agent Search and Reasoning

   Siyan Li, Darshan Deshpande, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian

   GEM Workshop, ACL 2026 arXiv

2025

1. MemTrack: Evaluating Long-Term Memory and State Tracking in Multi-Platform Dynamic Agent Environments

   Darshan Deshpande, Varun Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian, Peter Wang

   Scaling Environments for Agents Workshop, NeurIPS 2025 arXiv blog

2. TRAIL: Trace Reasoning and Agentic Issue Localization

   Darshan Deshpande, Varun Gangal, Hersh Mehta, Jitin Krishnan, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian

   arXiv preprint arXiv code data blog

3. Browsing Lost Unformed Recollections: A Benchmark for Tip-of-the-Tongue Search and Reasoning

   Sky CH-Wang, Darshan Deshpande, Smaranda Muresan, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian

   ACL 2025 arXiv pdf

2024

1. GLIDER: Grading LLM Interactions and Decisions using Explainable Ranking

   Darshan Deshpande, Selvan Sunitha Ravi, Sky CH-Wang, Bartosz Mielczarek, Anand Kannappan, Rebecca Qian

   arXiv preprint arXiv model

2. Robust Text Classification: Analyzing Prototype-Based Networks

   Zhivar Sourati, Darshan Deshpande, Filip Ilievski, Kiril Gashteovski, Sascha Saralajew

   Findings of EMNLP 2024 arXiv pdf

3. GNOME: Generating Negotiations through Open-Domain Mapping of Exchanges

   Darshan Deshpande, Shambhavi Sinha, Anirudh Ravi Kumar, Debaditya Pal, Jonathan May

   arXiv preprint arXiv

4. Contextualizing Argument Quality Assessment with Relevant Knowledge

   Darshan Deshpande, Zhivar Sourati, Filip Ilievski, Fred Morstatter

   NAACL 2024 arXiv pdf

2023

1. Robust and Explainable Identification of Logical Fallacies in Natural Language Arguments

   Zhivar Sourati, Vishnu Priya Prasanna Venkatesh, Darshan Deshpande, Himanshu Rawlani, Filip Ilievski, Hông-Ân Sandlin, Alain Mermoud

   Knowledge-Based Systems, vol. 266 arXiv doi