Ehsan Aghazadeh
PhD Student in Computer Science · UMass Amherst
Amherst, MA
Hi! I’m a PhD student at UMass Amherst in Computer Science, advised by Hossein Pishro-Nik and Hedyeh Beyhaghi.
My research spans both practical and theoretical aspects of Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI systems. I’m currently working on:
- Reliability of multi-agent AI systems — modeling agent networks as factor graphs with LDPC-inspired density evolution to predict failure modes and optimize architectures.
- Test-time scaling & self-consistency — CGES, a Bayesian framework that achieves 25–40% reduction in LLM inference cost with no accuracy loss.
- Ergodic trajectory design — provably coverage-optimal trajectory planning via conditional flow matching, with zero-shot deployment across multi-agent fleets.
Previously, I worked on mechanistic interpretability of language models (probing, token attribution, hallucination analysis in VLMs) and efficient training (gradient-based data pruning for NLP).
I did my undergraduate at the University of Tehran and have been a reviewer at NeurIPS, ACL, NAACL, and EACL.
🤝 I'm open to collaborations in multi-agent systems, RL for LLMs, and mechanistic interpretability — feel free to reach out!
news
| May 01, 2026 | Admitted with a grant to the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) NYC 2026 at Columbia University. |
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| Dec 01, 2025 | Paper accepted as Spotlight at Efficient Reasoning @ NeurIPS 2025: CGES: Confidence-Guided Early Stopping for Efficient and Accurate Self-Consistency. |
| Jul 01, 2025 | Paper accepted at KnowledgeFM @ ACL 2025: A Comprehensive Analysis for Visual Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models. |
| Jun 01, 2025 | Received the OpenAI API Researcher Access Program grant — $1,000 in API credits for research use. |
| Dec 01, 2024 | Paper accepted at BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2024: From RAGs to Rich Parameters. |
selected publications
- PreprintOn the Reliability of Networks of AI Agents: Density Evolution, Stopping Sets, and Architecture Optimization2026Ongoing
- NeurIPSErgodic Trajectory Design by Learned Pushforward Maps: Provable Coverage via Conditional Flow Matching2026In Submission @ NeurIPS 2026
- NeurIPSCGES: Confidence-Guided Early Stopping for Efficient and Accurate Self-ConsistencyIn Efficient Reasoning Workshop (Efficient Reasoning @ NeurIPS), 2025