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Seyedarmin Azizi

University of Southern California;Sharif University of Technology

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Preprint Oct 2026

Claim Laundering: When Agent Decision Models Trust Records Over Reality

Agent decision models select actions in a single forward pass from inputs that combine environmental observations with the agent's own record of previous actions. When an action fails silently, these sources can conflict: the record reports success, but the environment shows that the step did not take effect. We ask wh...

Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh, Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

The Sharp Directions Are Against You: Curvature Analysis of Activation Steering

Activation steering adds a vector to a language model's internal representations at inference time. It is a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for behavioral control. The standard construction, contrastive activation addition (CAA), is fragile, as on many inputs it shifts behavior in the wrong direction. To explain...

Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi, Parsa Razmara et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Review Oct 2026

One Word Opens the Gate: The Option-Channel Attack on Typed Decision Models as Agent Guardrails

A typed decision model reads a piece of text and returns a probability over caller-defined options, each with a short written definition, generating no text. Recent work places these models in agent systems as guardrails: the component that reads a proposed tool call or incoming message and decides whether to allow it....

Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, M. Pedram · 1 citation
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Sharpen Without Search: On-Policy Distillation of Sequence-Level Power Distribution

A language model can give a correct answer more probability than any single incorrect answer and still usually sample an incorrect one, because the incorrect answers together hold more probability. The power distribution raises each complete answer's probability to a power above one and renormalizes, shifting probabili...

Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Seyedarmin Azizi, Arya Fayyazi et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Labels Override Definitions in Jev-Style Typed Decision Models

A typed decision model answers a fixed question about an input by returning a probability for each of several caller-defined options. Each option carries a short label and a written definition, which is where a developer states the rule the model should apply. Jev introduced this interface for routing, moderation and t...

Seyedarmin Azizi, Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, M. Pedram · 1 citation
Preprint Aug 2026

CircuitSteer: Geometrically Aligned Multi-Layer Steering via Sparse Autoencoder Circuits

CircuitSteer is introduced, a novel framework that leverages Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to identify and manipulate coherent semantic circuits distributed across multiple layers that yields strictly more robust and effective behavioral control than static single-point interventions.

Mehrshad Saadatinia, Parsa Razmara, Ardalan Aryashad et al. · 1 citation

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