Amir Saeidi

I am a PhD student in CS at Arizona State University, advised by Chitta Baral in the Cognition and Intelligence Lab. My current research interests are : Exploring and enhancing the robustness of large language models using reinforcement learning methods with human feedback.

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News

January, 2025 - I have accepted an offer to join Microsoft as an Applied Research Intern for Spring 2025.
October, 2024 - New preprint out.
September, 2024 - Nominated as a reviewer for the ICLR 2025 conference.
July, 2024 - New preprint out. UnSeenTimeQA is publicly available in the GitHub repository.
June, 2024 - New preprint out.
May, 2024 - New preprint out. More details on our website.
April, 2024 - New preprint out.
April, 2024 - Received the SCAI Conference Award.
April, 2024 - 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2024 workshop.
February, 2024 - Received the GPSA Jumpstart Research Grant.
October, 2023 - Received the Research Fellow position at Mayo Clinic.
January, 2023 - Started my PhD.

Research

Representative papers are highlighted.

	Triple Preference Optimization: Achieving Better Alignment with Less Data in a Single Step Optimization Amir Saeidi, Shivanshu Verma, Aswin RRV, Chitta Baral Under Review Paper \| Project \| Code
	When "Competency" in Reasoning Opens the Door to Vulnerability: Jailbreaking LLMs via Novel Complex Ciphers Divij Handa, Zehua Zhang, Amir Saeidi, Chitta Baral Under Review Paper
	UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorization Md Nayem Uddin, Amir Saeidi, Divij Handa, Agastya Seth, Tran Cao Son, Eduardo Blanco, Steven R. Corman, Chitta Baral Under Review Paper \| Code
	Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models Across Distribution Shifts and Augmentations Aayush Atul Verma, Amir Saeidi, Shamanthak Hegde, Ajay Therala, Fenil Denish Bardoliya, Nagaraju Machavarapu, Shri Ajay Kumar Ravindhiran, Srija Malyala, Agneet Chatterjee, Yezhou Yang, Chitta Baral CVPR workshop* Paper
	Investigating and Addressing Hallucinations of LLMs in Tasks Involving Negation Neeraj Varshney, Satyam Raj, Venkatesh Mishra, Agneet Chatterjee, Ritika Sarkar, Amir Saeidi, Chitta Baral arXiv Paper
	Insights into Alignment: Evaluating DPO and its Variants Across Multiple Tasks Amir Saeidi, Sivanshu Verma, Chitta Baral Under Review Paper

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