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Saaduddin Mahmud

I am a fourth-year PhD student at UMass Amherst, working under the guidance of Professor Shlomo Zilberstein. My research focuses on developing methods for effective communication among decision-making agents, with applications in Planning, Reinforcement Learning, and Multi-Agent Systems. Currently, I am exploring the use of LLM agents for understanding human intent and generating explainable plans. My broader interests include enhancing collaboration between AI and humans in complex decision-making environments. You can find my complete CV here.

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Notable Publications:

  1. Saaduddin Mahmud, Dorian Benhamou Goldfajn, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Distributed Multi-Agent Coordination Using Multi-Modal Foundation Models (Under Review).
  2. Saaduddin Mahmud, Mason Nakamura, and Shlomo Zilberstein. MAPLE: A Framework for Active Preference Learning Guided by Large Language Models (AAAI 2025).
  3. Saaduddin Mahmud, Sandhya Saisubramanian, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Verification and Validation of AI Systems Using Explanations.(AAAI Fall Symposium 2024).
  4. Saaduddin Mahmud, Marcell VazquezChanlatte, Stefan Witwicki and Shlomo Zilberstein. Explaining the Behavior of POMDP-based Agents Through the Impact of Counterfactual Information. (AAMAS 2024).
  5. Connor Basich*,Saaduddin Mahmud*, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Learning Constraints on Autonomous Behavior from Proactive Feedback (IROS 2023).
  6. Saaduddin Mahmud, Sandhya Saisubramanian, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Explanation-Guided Reward Alignment.(IJCAI 2023). [IJCAI]
  7. Saaduddin Mahmud, Samer B. Nashed, Claudia V. Goldman, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Estimating Causal Responsibility for Explaining Autonomous Behavior(EXTRAAMAS-2023 @ AAMAS-2023). [SPRINGER]
  8. Saaduddin Mahmud*, Connor Basich*, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Semi-Autonomous Systems with Contextual Competence Awareness(AAMAS 2023). [ACM]
  9. Saaduddin Mahmud, Sandhya Saisubramanian, and Shlomo Zilberstein. REVEALE: A Framework for Reward Verification and Learning.(SafeAI @ AAAI-23, Best Paper Award Nomination (Top 4)). [CEUR-WS]
  10. Samer B. Nashed, Saaduddin Mahmud, Claudia V. Goldman, and Shlomo Zilberstein. Causal Explanations for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty(AAMAS 2023 (Ext. Abs.) and Under Review for JAIR). [ARXIV]