collaborators

8 papers

cs.CL2026

Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

Amin Banayeeanzade, Ala N. Tak, Fatemeh Bahrani +5

The ability to control LLMs' emulated emotional states and personality traits is an essential step in enabling rich, human-centered interactions in socially interactive settings. W…

cs.CL2026

EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors

Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Deqing Fu +6

High-quality data is essential for modern machine learning, yet many valuable corpora are sensitive and cannot be freely shared. Synthetic data offers a practical substitute for do…

cs.CL2026

Sampling More, Getting Less: Calibration is the Diversity Bottleneck in LLMs

Amin Banayeeanzade, Qingchuan Yang, Dhruv Tarsadiya +6

Diversity is essential for language-model applications ranging from creative generation to scientific discovery, yet modern LLMs often collapse into a narrow subset of plausible ou…

cs.AI2026

Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?

Ala N. Tak, Amin Banayeeanzade, Anahita Bolourani +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly positioned as decision engines for hiring, healthcare, and economic judgment, yet real-world human judgment reflects a balance between…

cs.RO2025

AutoFocus-IL: VLM-based Saliency Maps for Data-Efficient Visual Imitation Learning without Extra Human Annotations

Litian Gong, Fatemeh Bahrani, Yutai Zhou +3

AutoFocus-IL is a simple yet effective method to improve data efficiency and generalization in visual imitation learning by guiding policies to attend to task-relevant features rat…

cs.RO2025

GABRIL: Gaze-Based Regularization for Mitigating Causal Confusion in Imitation Learning

Amin Banayeeanzade, Fatemeh Bahrani, Yutai Zhou +1

Imitation Learning (IL) is a widely adopted approach which enables agents to learn from human expert demonstrations by framing the task as a supervised learning problem. However, I…