CV
Basics
| Name | Hamidreza Amirzadeh |
| Label | Mechanistic interpretability and AI Safety Researcher |
| h.amirzadeh1378@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://hamid-amir.github.io/ |
| Summary | AI Master student at Sharif University of technology, focusing on Mechanistic Interpretability with the hope of making LLMs more transparent. |
Work
- 2024.04 - 2024.09
Remote Research Collaborator
Tilburg University, Netherlands
Investigated how different language models use multiple contextual cues to disambiguate grammatical tasks.
- Language Models
- Interpretability
- Context Mixing
- Activation Patching
- 2024.03 - 2024.09
Remote Research Collaborator
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (NLPnorth lab)
Developed a more complete lang2vec system to improve multilingual models performance.
- Multilingual NLP
- Classical Machine Learning pipelines
- 2022.09 - Present
Master Student
Sharif University of technology, Iran
Focusing on interpretability of transformer based language models
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- Transformer Models
- AI Safety
Education
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2022.09 - Present Tehran, Iran
Master
Sharif University of technology
CE, Artificial Intelligence
- Mechanistic Interpretability
- Transformer Models
- AI Safety
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2017.09 - 2021.09 Tehran, Iran
BSc
Tehran Polytechnic (Amirkabir University of Technology)
Mechanical Engineering
- Control Engineering
- Dynamical Systems
- Signal Processing
Publications
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2024.10 data2lang2vec: Data Driven Typological Features Completion
arXiv preprint (COLING 2025 under review)
Developed a more complete lang2vec system to improve multilingual models performance.
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2024.10 How Language Models Prioritize Contextual Grammatical Cues?
BlackboxNLP @ EMNLP 2024
Investigated how different language models use multiple contextual cues to disambiguate grammatical tasks.
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2024.01 HalluSafe at SemEval‑2024 Task 6: An NLI‑based Approach to Make LLMs Safer by Better Detecting Hallucinations and Overgeneration Mistakes
SemEval 2024
Particpated in a shared task of SemEval 2024 titled SHROOM, a Shared‑task on Hallucinations and Related Observable Overgeneration Mistakes of LMs.
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2023.06 Imaginations of WALL‑E : Reconstructing Experiences with an Imagination‑Inspired Module for Advanced AI Systems
arXiv preprint
Proposed an imagination inspired module to enhance the performance of multi‑modal LLMs on text only tasks.
Skills
| AI Safety Research | |
| Mechanistic Interpretability | |
| Transformer Models |
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| PyTorch | |
| Functional Programming | |
| Git | |
| Bash | |
| Linux | |
| LaTeX |
| Machine Learning | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Natural Language Processing | |
| Security and Privacy in ML | |
| Convex Optimization |
Languages
| Persian | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Fluent |
Interests
| Academic Interests | |
| Alignment | |
| Mechanistic Interpretability | |
| Robustness | |
| Transparency | |
| Circuit Analysis |
| Other Interests | |
| Linux | |
| Reading Fictional books, favourite one: The Razor's Edge, by William Somerset Maugham | |
| Playing Video Games, favourite one: Red Dead Redemption II |