Jantram

About Us

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Jantram is a research group at IIT Kharagpur focused on Agentic AI, and Applied Machine Learning. Our work lies in the interfaces where stochastic models meet deterministic system components. We build cognitive systems that understand language, reason over complex inputs, and improve efficiency of humans-in-the-loop autonomous systems.

Latest News

June 2026 New

Thank you Persistent Systems

Thank you Persistent Systems for supporting our research.

May 2026 New

Welcome Summer Interns

Welcome 2026 batch of summer interns to IIT KGP. Happy learning.

May 2026 Talk

Persistent Systems HQ

We presented the lab's current direction and future roadmap to stakeholders in Persistent Systems HQ, Pune.

Selected Publications

2026

Multimodal Policy Internalization for Conversational Agents

Z. Wang, J. Liu, A. Fazel, R. Sarkhel, X. Fan, X. Li, C. Guo, H. Ji, R. Sarikaya

ICLR 2026

2025

Train a Unified Multimodal Data Quality Classifier with Synthetic Data

W. Wang, R. Lin, S. Li, C. Lockard, R. Sarkhel, S. Lokegaonkar, J. Shang, X. Yan, N. Zalmout, X. Li

EMNLP (Findings) 2025

2025

DocTalk: Scalable Graph-based Dialogue Synthesis for Enhancing LLM Conversational Capabilities

J. Y. Lee, H. Bonab, N. Zalmout, M. Zeng, S. Lokegaonkar, C. Lockard, B. Huang, R. Sarkhel, H. Wang

SIGDIAL 2025

2024

Shopping MMLU: A Massive Multi-Task Online Shopping Benchmark for Large Language Models

Y. Jin, Z. Li, C. Zhang, T. Cao, Y. Gao, P. Jayarao, M. Li, X. Liu, R. Sarkhel, X. Tang, et al.

NeurIPS 2024

2023

Self-training for Label-Efficient Information Extraction from Semi-Structured Web-Pages

R. Sarkhel, B. Huang, C. Lockard, P. Shiralkar

VLDB 2023

Software and Demos

Agentic AI

Local Explorer

Inspect multi-step reasoning chains produced by sandboxed local agents using structured querying. Upload a task trace and explore decision points, tool calls, and backtracking behavior interactively.

Agentic AI

AgentCascade

Interactive playground to test the robustness of multi-agent communication channels.

Current Members

Abhinav Nagar

Masters with Thesis

LLM Low Resource NLP

Ayushman Sarkar

Undergraduate

LLM

Brijesh Kumar

Undergraduate

Agentic AI

Mohit Khalote

Undergraduate

Agentic AI

Sponsors