Ehsan Aghazadeh

PhD Student in Computer Science · UMass Amherst

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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.

news

May 01, 2026 Admitted with a grant to the Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) NYC 2026 at Columbia University.
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

  1. Preprint
    On the Reliability of Networks of AI Agents: Density Evolution, Stopping Sets, and Architecture Optimization
    Ehsan Aghazadeh and Hossein Pishro-Nik
    2026
    Ongoing
  2. NeurIPS
    Ergodic Trajectory Design by Learned Pushforward Maps: Provable Coverage via Conditional Flow Matching
    Ehsan Aghazadeh, Mohammad Malekzadeh, Alireza Ghasemi, and 1 more author
    2026
    In Submission @ NeurIPS 2026
  3. NeurIPS
    CGES: Confidence-Guided Early Stopping for Efficient and Accurate Self-Consistency
    Ehsan Aghazadeh, Ahmad Ghasemi, Hedyeh Beyhaghi, and 1 more author
    In Efficient Reasoning Workshop (Efficient Reasoning @ NeurIPS), 2025