Amelia (Hui) Dai

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I am an incoming Ph.D. student in data science at UChicago Data Science Institue. I finished my master’s at NYU Center for Data Science, where I was fortunate to work with Prof. Mengye Ren in the Agentic Learning AI Lab and Prof. Krzysztof J. Geras. Recently, my work includes LLMs in forecasting and evaluating the generalization ability of LLMs.

Previously, I completed my BS in Statistics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. Outside of school, I also do hiphop dancing!

News

Jul 13, 2025 Our paper “Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle” is accepted in ICML 2025!
Jun 01, 2024 We finished our project “DENIAHL: In-Context Features Influence LLM Needle-In-A-Haystack Abilities”, where we analyze factors beyond context length affecting LLMs’ abilities to recall information from long input context. Check our paper and code.
May 05, 2024 We revisited the Text-Based Ideal Point Model (TBIP)! TBIP (Vafa et al., 2020) is a probabilistic topic model for estimating ideologies using word-choice differences on shared topics, we explored its potential in multiparty contexts! See our paper and code.

Publications

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    Are LLMs Prescient? A Continuous Evaluation using Daily News as the Oracle
    Hui DaiRyan Teehan, and Mengye Ren
    In ICML, 2025
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    DENIAHL: In-Context Features Influence LLM Needle-In-A-Haystack Abilities
    Hui Dai, Dan Pechi, Xinyi Yang, Garvit Banga, and Raghav Mantri
    Arxiv Preprint , 2024
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    Deep reinforcement learning empowers automated inverse design and optimization of photonic crystals for nanoscale laser cavities
    Renjie Li, Ceyao Zhang, Wentao Xie, Yuanhao Gong, Feilong Ding, Hui Dai, Zihan Chen, Feng Yin, and Zhaoyu Zhang
    Nanophotonics, 2023