Publications

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

A. Banayeeanzade, Q. Yang, D. Tarsadiya, F. Bahrani, L. Blas, A. Samuel, et al.

ArXiv (preprint)

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

A. N. Tak*, A. Banayeeanzade*, A. Bolourani*, F. Bahrani, A. Chaubey, SP. Karimireddy, N. Schwarz, J. Gratch.

ICLR 2026 - Workshop on Representational Alignment

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Psychological Steering in LLMs: An Evaluation of Effectiveness and Trustworthiness

A. Banayeeanzade*, A. N. Tak*, F. Bahrani, A. Bolourani, L. Blas, E. Ferrara, J. Gratch, SP. Karimireddy.

ACL 2026

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

L. Gong, F. Bahrani, Y. Zhou, A. Banayeeanzade, J. Li, E. Bıyık.

ICRA 2026

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

A. Banayeeanzade*, F. Bahrani*, Y. Zhou, E. Bıyık.

IROS 2025

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