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5 papers

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…

cs.LG2025

Hybrid Learners Do Not Forget: A Brain-Inspired Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Continual Learning

Amin Banayeeanzade, Mohammad Rostami

Continual learning is crucial for creating AI agents that can learn and improve themselves autonomously. A primary challenge in continual learning is to learn new tasks without los…

cs.CL2025

Mechanistic Interpretability of Emotion Inference in Large Language Models

Ala N. Tak, Amin Banayeeanzade, Anahita Bolourani +3

Large language models (LLMs) show promising capabilities in predicting human emotions from text. However, the mechanisms through which these models process emotional stimuli remain…