Elnaz Rahmati

PhD Candidate in Computer Science at USC

I am a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Morteza Dehghani. My research lies at the intersection of natural language processing and cognitive science, with a particular focus on continual learning and multilinguality. More broadly, I study how language models learn, represent, and generalize knowledge. My current and past work spans abstraction in LLMs, multilingual language modeling, conversational modeling, computational social science, and low-resource language technologies.

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Elnaz Rahmati

Publications

2026

The Subjectivity of Respect in Police Traffic Stops: Modeling Community Perspectives in Body-Worn Camera Footage
P. Golazizian, E. Rahmati, J. Trager, Z. Sourati, N. Ghazizadeh, et al.
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Flip-Flop Consistency: Unsupervised Training for Robustness to Prompt Perturbations in LLMs
P. Hejabi, E. Rahmati, A. S. Ziabari, M. Dehghani
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Structural Abstraction as an Inductive Bias for Non-Stationary Language Model Training
E. Rahmati, N. Ghazizadeh, Z. Sourati, N. Rouhani, M. Dehghani
arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17198

2025

CoCo-CoLa: Evaluating and Improving Language Adherence in Multilingual LLMs
E. Rahmati, A. S. Ziabari, M. Dehghani
Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Multilingual Representation Learning (MRL)

The Moral Foundations Reddit Corpus
J. Trager, A. S. Ziabari, E. Rahmati, A. M. Davani, P. Golazizian, et al.
Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

2024

Evaluating Creativity and Deception in Large Language Models: A Simulation Framework for Multi-Agent Balderdash
P. Hejabi*, E. Rahmati*, A. S. Ziabari, P. Golazizian, J. Thomason, M. Dehghani
Wordplay Workshop at the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024

GE2PE: Persian End-to-End Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion
E. Rahmati, H. Sameti
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, 3426–3436

2022

Naab: A Ready-to-Use Plug-and-Play Corpus for Farsi
S. Sabouri, E. Rahmati, S. Gooran, H. Sameti
Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Applications and Innovations