Parsa Mirtaheri

CV

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Hello! I’m Parsa, a PhD student in Computer Science at UC San Diego, advised by Misha Belkin. My research explores the scientific and theoretical foundations of machine learning, with a focus on understanding representations and computations in language models and uncovering their reasoning mechanisms and capabilities. I received my undergraduate degree in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Iran.

selected publications

  1. Let Me Think! A Long Chain-of-Thought Can Be Worth Exponentially Many Short Ones
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 2025
  2. Direct Alignment with Heterogeneous Preferences
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38, 2025