Publications & Talks

Research publications, conference papers, and invited talks.

Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman

Also published as: Abhinav SV, Abhinav Shankar, Abhinav S V

Publications

A Framework for Prompt Optimization and Translation Across Foundation Models

Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman, Athanasios Nikolakopoulos, Vishwanath Kumaraswamy, Tao Zhang, Sarath Chander, Rohit Saboo, Suleiman A. Khan

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 Workshop · 2026 Peer-reviewed

A methodology to automatically translate prompts across foundation models by preserving task semantics and re-optimizing only model-specific interfaces, matching expert performance while cutting manual effort by ~97%.

Prompt Translation Across Foundation Models: A Structured Optimization Framework

Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman, et al.

Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC) · 2025 Peer-reviewed (Internal)

Presents a novel framework for optimizing and translating prompts across different foundation models, enabling efficient cross-model adaptation.

Graph and Matrix Algorithms for Visualizing High Dimensional Data

Abhinav Shankaranarayanan Venkataraman

Bachelor's Thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC Barcelona) · 2016

Studies, implements, and compares several algorithms for visually representing highly dimensional data so that similar entities appear close together based on graph and matrix representation.

Talks & Presentations

A Framework for Prompt Optimization and Translation Across Foundation Models

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 Workshop

2026

Workshop Paper

Prompt Translation Across Foundation Models: A Structured Optimization Framework

Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC)

2025

Spotlight Talk

Strategies for Improving Product Categorization Accuracy and Reducing Amazon Best Sellers Defect Rate

Amazon Knowledge Conference

2021

Internal Conference Talk

Peer Review

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026 Workshop

Reviewer

2026

Completed

Amazon Machine Learning Conference (AMLC)

Reviewer — 4 papers reviewed

2025

Completed

Thesis