Sugam Panthi

Co-founder @ MagnoliaEd · Research Assistant @ The University of Southern Mississippi

I work on LLM evaluation, tool-calling agents, and how people interact with LLMs. I also build software. This is the plain version of spanthi.com.

B.S. Computer Science, USM Honors College, expected May 2028. Advised by Rabab Abdelfattah. Based in Hattiesburg, MS.

Sugam Panthi

Sugam’s Research Trail (scroll sideways...)

ProjectPaperPostActive
Tool agents2026–nowLLM evaluation2026–nowLLM × human behavior2026–nowHeard statePOSTLying toolsPOSTOutcome MonitorsARXIVPaliOPEN SOURCECoin flipPOSTSame RankingEMNLP 2026 FINDINGSLying benchmarksPOSTRAG compressionARXIVEternal presentLAPSE POSTPaste boundarySEAM POST

Inspired by Philippe Laban’s research garden

Education

B.S. Computer Science, The University of Southern Mississippi, Honors College — Aug 2024 – May 2028 (expected)

GPA 4.0/4.0. Hattiesburg, MS.

Publications

  • Outcome Monitors: Recovery Affordances for Silent Tool Failures
    Sugam Panthi, Rabab Abdelfattah · arXiv 2026 · arXiv:2608.19303 · PDF · Poster ·
    BibTeX 
    @misc{panthi2026outcomemonitors,
  title         = {Outcome Monitors: Recovery Affordances for Silent Tool Failures},
  author        = {Panthi, Sugam and Abdelfattah, Rabab},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2608.19303},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.AI},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2608.19303},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19303}
}
  • Fixed RAG Compression Collapses Measured Reader Scaling
    Sugam Panthi, Rabab Abdelfattah · arXiv 2026 · arXiv:2606.21807 · PDF · Poster ·
    BibTeX 
    @misc{panthi2026ragcompression,
  title         = {Fixed RAG Compression Collapses Measured Reader Scaling},
  author        = {Panthi, Sugam and Abdelfattah, Rabab},
  year          = {2026},
  eprint        = {2606.21807},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2606.21807},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21807}
}
  • Same Ranking, Different Winner: How Scoring Targets Shape LLM Memory Benchmarks
    Sugam Panthi, Rabab Abdelfattah · EMNLP Findings 2026 · arXiv:2605.24060 · PDF · Poster ·
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{panthi2026memorytargets,
  title         = {Same Ranking, Different Winner: How Scoring Targets Shape {LLM} Memory Benchmarks},
  author        = {Panthi, Sugam and Abdelfattah, Rabab},
  booktitle     = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026},
  year          = {2026},
  note          = {To appear},
  eprint        = {2605.24060},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  primaryClass  = {cs.CL},
  doi           = {10.48550/arXiv.2605.24060},
  url           = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24060}
}
  • A Comprehensive Review of Plastic Recycling in the Construction Industry: Challenges and Opportunities in the US
    Sugam Panthi, Fan Zhang · CIB Conferences 2025 · Read on Purdue eLib ·
    BibTeX 
    @inproceedings{panthi2025plastic,
  title     = {A Comprehensive Review of Plastic Recycling in the Construction Industry: Challenges and Opportunities in the {US}},
  author    = {Panthi, Sugam and Zhang, Fan},
  year      = {2025},
  booktitle = {CIB Conferences},
  volume    = {1},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {63},
  doi       = {10.7771/3067-4883.2081},
  url       = {https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cib-conferences/vol1/iss1/63/}
}

Experience

Projects

  • Pali — Open memory runtime for LLM apps and agent systems.
  • Deepseek-Go — A Deepseek API client library written for Go.
  • Ripple — Web application for creating, playing, and sharing flashcards in 3D.
  • Cohesion — AI-powered assistant for SQL schema generation.
  • Danime — OpenSource Discord bot with 1M+ users.
  • Moksha — Full-stack self-help social media platform.
  • Costumary — Craft build journal for makers — references, materials, budgets, and build logs.

Honors & Awards

Service

  • Executive member, GDG on Campus, The University of Southern Mississippi

Skills

  • Languages: Go, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL
  • Frameworks & Libraries: React, Next.js, React Native, Flask, Django, LangChain, PyTorch
  • Infrastructure & Databases: Docker, Terraform, AWS Fargate, Firebase, MongoDB, Pinecone, PostgreSQL
  • Systems & Protocols: Kafka, Raft, gRPC, REST, Microservices
  • Tools & Practices: Git, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, Jira, Turborepo