Kavana Venkatesh

CS PhD student at Virginia Tech.

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

🚀 Introducing PhysicsAgentABM!

We propose a novel Physics-Guided Generative Agent Based Modeling framework for scalable and calibrated simulation of complex social systems!

⚡ 6.7x fewer API calls, 2.1-3.4x cost reduction
🎯 Superior temporal accuracy across all domains (EETE, ET-F1)
📊 Calibrated uncertainty (near-diagonal reliability curves)
🔄 Robust to regime shifts (policy shocks, market crashes, viral events)

Huge kudos to my collaborator @inhan_y , Prof. @LiJundong and my advisor @jiamingcui1997!

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

🔗 Checkout our preprint below 👇

📄 Paper: https://t.co/NsMBJJ5k21

We welcome your comments and feedback!

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

🚀 Introducing PhysicsAgentABM!

We propose a novel Physics-Guided Generative Agent Based Modeling framework for scalable and calibrated simulation of complex social systems!

⚡ 6.7x fewer API calls, 2.1-3.4x cost reduction
🎯 Superior temporal accuracy across all domains (EETE, ET-F1)
📊 Calibrated uncertainty (near-diagonal reliability curves)
🔄 Robust to regime shifts (policy shocks, market crashes, viral events)

Huge kudos to my collaborator @inhan_y , Prof. @LiJundong and my advisor @jiamingcui1997!

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

💹Cost & Scalability

Flat GABM vs PhysicsAgentABM (N=1000):

API calls: 8,250 → 1,233 (6.7× reduction)
Tokens: 2.3M → 0.49–0.79M
Cost: 2.1–3.4× lower
Latency: 7.5–12.5× faster
ET-F1: improves from 0.62 → 0.81

Reasoning cost scales with clusters, not agents.

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

@RevanthAtmakuri Thanks for sharing our work!

[Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR]

So grateful for the incredible students and alumni of GEMLAB! Together, we published 4 main conference papers + 4 workshop papers at @NeurIPSConf. You’re all absolute gems 💎

[Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR]

My amazing students Connor, Matt and Kavana are presenting our paper at poster#5319 right now! @NeurIPSConf

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

@d_yesiltepe @docmilanfar @yusuf_dalva @tunahansalih 💪

[Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR]

Kavana @kavanav2912 and Connor presenting our paper at poster #5402 right now! @NeurIPSConf

[Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR]

GEMLAB is heading to @NeurIPSConf! 🎉 We’re presenting 4 main conference papers (including 1 spotlight ⭐) + 4 workshop papers. Come say hi & check out our work! Details below 👇

[Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR]

Huge kudos to my amazing students for their hard work and dedication: Hidir @d_yesiltepe, Yusuf @yusuf_dalva , Connor, Tuna @tunahansalih, Matthew, Kavana @kavanav2912, Kiymet @akdemir_kiymet, and Tahira @TKazimi415! 🎉 We'll all be at @NeurIPSConf, come say hi!

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

Heading to NeurIPS to present two papers!

🖼️ CREA: A Collaborative Multi‑Agent Framework for Creative Image Editing and Generation
🌐 Project Page: https://t.co/dUtWX0xUDB

👩‍🔧Personalized Image Editing in Text‑to‑Image Diffusion Models via Collaborative Direct Preference Optimization
🌐 Project Page: https://t.co/kVKgXIl7a1

If you want to chat about Multi-Agent Safety, Multimodal GenAI and applications, let's get a ☕☺️

I am also looking for Research Internships for Summer 2026 and would appreciate any leads!

See you 🔜 in San Diego! 😃

#NeurIPS2025 #NeurIPS #GenAI

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

🎊 Thrilled to share that 2 of my papers got into NeurIPS! Huge thanks to my collaborators and our amazing advisor, Dr. Pinar Yanardag @PINguAR at @SanghaniCtrVT!

🚀Can’t wait to present our work in San Diego this December!

#NeurIPS2025

[Kavana Venkatesh @kavanav2912]

@yusuf_dalva @d_yesiltepe @PINguAR Amazing!! Many congratulations @yusuf_dalva!