Borru Vijay Sai
Author directory2026
TRIPPULSE: Multi-Agent Travel Planning with Review-Grounded Reasoning
Priyanshu Karmakar | Borru Vijay Sai | Shubhojit Mallick | Abhik Jana | Shreya Ghosh | Manish Gupta
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Priyanshu Karmakar | Borru Vijay Sai | Shubhojit Mallick | Abhik Jana | Shreya Ghosh | Manish Gupta
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Travel itinerary generation requires balancing strict spatio-temporal constraints with human preferences. Existing LLM-based planners mainly rely on structured attributes and predefined traveler personas, but real travel decisions are often shaped by reviews that reveal experiential factors such as comfort, safety, service quality, ambiance, crowding, and hidden risks absent from structured databases. Incorporating such review information is therefore critical to realistic, user-centric itinerary generation. We propose TRIPPULSE (Captures experiential signals from reviews beyond rigid hard constraints), a multi-agent framework for review-grounded travel planning. Instead of relying on a monolithic planner (and face context and reasoning bottlenecks), TRIPPULSE decomposes itinerary generation into specialized agents (each operating over localized contexts) for accommodations, transportation, meals, attractions, and events, coordinated through a global orchestrator with scheduling mechanisms that enforce temporal and budget feasibility. We augment TripCraft with 100K+ real-world reviews and introduce Review-Grounded Persona Alignment (RGPA), an LLM-as-a-Judge metric for evaluating alignment with human-centric travel experiences. Experiments across multiple trip durations and diverse proprietary and open-source models show that TRIPPULSE maintains strong constraint satisfaction while generating more personalized and experientially grounded itineraries.