Saeid Amiri
I am research scientist at JP Morgan AI research working at the intersection of AI and Finance.
Previously, I was a student at AIR Lab , SUNY Binghamton, working in the AIR lab focusing on
knowledge-based robotics sequential decision making algorithms under the supervision of Shiqi Zhang.
More specifically, I am interested in leveraging commonsense knowledge in POMDPs, Reinforcement Learning, and combinatorial optimization.
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Research
I'm interested in AI symbolic planning under uncertainty and Reinforcement Learning.
Much of my research is about developing sequential decision making frameworks under partial observability.
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Surrogate-Assisted Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Facility Location and Beyond
Saeid Amiri , Danial Dervovic, Michael Cashmore,
SOCS , 2025
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Using Surrogates to speedup MCTS in combinatorial optimization
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DKPROMPT: Domain Knowledge Prompting
Vision-Language Models for Open-World Planning
Xiaohan Zhang, Zainab Altawel, Yohei Hayamizu, Yan Ding, Saeid Amiri , Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink, Shiqi Zhang
ICRA Workshop maybe , 2024
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Vision-language models (VLMs) have been applied to robot task planning problems
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Learning to reason about contextual knowledge for planning under uncertainty
Cheng Cui, Saeid Amiri , Yan Ding, Xingyue Zhan,
Shiqi Zhang
UAI , 2023
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Using supervised learning and automated reasoning to guide a POMDP-based symbolic planner
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Value Detection Rate: A Performance Metric for Payments Fraud Detection
Danial Dervovic
Saeid Amiri ,
Michael Cashmore
ICAPS FinPlan , 2023
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A metric for evaluating fraud detection system performance.
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Integrating Action Knowledge and LLMs for Task Planning and Situation Handling
in Open Worlds
Yan Ding, Xiaohan Zhang, Saeid Amiri , Nieqing Cao, Hao Yang, Andy Kaminski, Chad Esselink,
Shiqi Zhang
Autonomous Robots Special Issue on Large Language Models in Robotics , 2023
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Reasoning with Scene Graphs for Robot Planning under Partial Observability
Saeid Amiri ,
Kishan Chandan,
Shiqi Zhang
ICRA , 2022
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Guiding Robot Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Automated Planning
Yohei Hayamizuk,
Saeid Amiri ,
Kishan Chandan,
Seiki Takadama,
Shiqi Zhang
ICAPS , 2021
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Using action knowledge to guide the model-based RL.
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Learning and Reasoning for Robot Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty
Saeid Amiri ,
Mohammad S. Shirazi,
Shiqi Zhang
AAAI , 2020   (Oral Presentation)
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Using supervised learning and automated reasoning to guide a POMDP-based symbolic planner
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Augmenting Knowledge through Statistical,Goal-oriented Human-Robot Dialog
Saeid Amiri ,
Sujay Bajracharya,
Cihangir Goktolga,
Jesse Thomason ,
Shiqi Zhang
IROS , 2019
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A robotic dialogue system that simultaneously identifies human intention and augments its knowledge base.
Multi-modal Predicate Identification using Dynamically Learned Robot Controllers
Saeid Amiri ,
Suhua Wei ,
Jesse Thomason ,
Jivko Sinapov ,
Shiqi Zhang ,
Peter Stone
IJCAI , 2018
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Leveraging Multi-Sensory data to guide a robot to identify object properties.
Program committee, AAAI-21, IJCAI-20, AAMAS-22, FLAIRS-22
Reviewer for ICRA-21 and IROS-20