Amin Banayeeanzade
Mohammadamin (Amin) Banayeeanzade
CS PhD @ University of Southern California (USC)

I work on the trustworthiness of AI systems with a particular focus on diversity in LLMs and agentic systems, advised by Sai Praneeth Karimireddy. My research investigates the diversity problem in current models, which often produce homogeneous outputs, follow narrow exploration traces, and rely on limited or biased inputs during decision-making. By systematically characterizing and improving diversity in these aspects, my work aims to enhance the robustness, capabilities, and reliability of AI systems, ultimately strengthening their trustworthiness in real-world deployment.

Prior to USC, I finished my Master's at the CE department of Sharif University of Technology advised by Mahdieh Soleymani, where I worked on brain-inspired algorithms for the meta-continual learning problem. I also received my B.Sc. in EE from the same university, advised by Mahdi Shabany and Zahra Kavehvash.

News
Jul 2026 Presenting PsySET at ACL 2026 (Oral, Section B) in San Diego.
Jun 2026 Joining Capital One AIF team in New York for my summer internship.
Apr 2026 PsySET is accepted to ACL 2026.
Apr 2026 EPSVec is accepted to ICML 2026.
Jan 2025 Named a Capital One Fellow along with Sai Praneeth Karimireddy.
Publications
Sampling More, Getting Less: Calibration is the Diversity Bottleneck in LLMs
A. Banayeeanzade*, Q. Yang*, D. Tarsadiya, F. Bahrani, L. Blas, A. Samuel, R. Jia, M. Razaviyayn, S. P. Karimireddy
arXiv 2026
EPSVec: Efficient and Private Synthetic Data Generation via Dataset Vectors
A. Banayeeanzade*, Q. Yang*, D. Fu, S. Hong, E. Babinsky, A. Samuel, A. Kumar, R. Jia, S. P. Karimireddy
ICML 2026
Sparks of Rationality: Do Reasoning LLMs Align with Human Judgment and Choice?
A. N. Tak*, A. Banayeeanzade*, A. Bolourani*, F. Bahrani, A. Chaubey, S. P. Karimireddy, N. Schwarz, J. Gratch
ICLR 2026 Workshop on Representational Alignment
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, S. P. Karimireddy
ACL 2026 - Oral
Mechanistic Interpretability of Emotion Inference in Large Language Models
A. N. Tak*, A. Banayeeanzade*, A. Bolourani, M. Kian, R. Jia, J. Gratch
ACL 2025
ContextLeak: Auditing leakage in private in-context learning methods
J. Choi, S. Cao, X. Dong, A. Banayeeanzade, W. B. Zhu, R. Jia, S. P. Karimireddy
COLM 2026
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
Theoretical Insights into Overparameterized Models in Multi-Task and Replay-Based Continual Learning
A. Banayeeanzade, M. Soltanolkotabi, M. Rostami
TMLR 2025
GABRIL: Gaze-Based Regularization for Mitigating Causal Confusion in Imitation Learning
A. Banayeeanzade*, F. Bahrani*, Y. Zhou, E. Bıyık
IROS 2025
Hybrid Learners Do Not Forget: A Brain-Inspired Neuro-Symbolic Approach to Continual Learning
A. Banayeeanzade, M. Rostami
arXiv 2025
A Distinct Unsupervised Reference Model from the Environment Helps Continual Learning
A. Ameli, A. Banayeeanzade, M. Samiei, M. Soleymani
arXiv 2023
Generative vs. Discriminative: Rethinking the Meta-Continual Learning
A. Banayeeanzade*, R. Mirzaiezadeh*, H. Hasani, M. Soleymani
NeurIPS 2021

* Equal contributions.

Other Projects
Automatic Object Detection Under Clothing in Millimeter-Wave Images
Senior AI Researcher, Basir Wave Tech
Awards & Honors
2025 Capital One Fellow.
2022 USC Viterbi Graduate Fellowship.