​Hi! I’m Yanhong Li. I am currently a pre-doctoral researcher at the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), advised by Luca Soldaini. I am broadly interested in improving the efficiency of language modeling, including data efficiency, efficient model architectures, and inference methods. I also love exploring generative models through their representation space (I especially love embeddings). I’m always happy to chat about research (yanhongl@allenai.org)! :)

This past summer, I was a visiting student at MIT CSAIL, supervised by Prof. Yoon Kim and mentored by the wonderful Songlin Yang (I distilled so much from her!!). 

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I graduated from the University of Chicago in 2025. During undergrad, I was extremely grateful to work with Prof. David McAllester (TTIC), Prof. Karen Livescu (TTIC), Prof. Michael Maire (UChicago), Prof. Jiawei Zhou (Stony Brook), and Prof. Allyson Ettinger (AI2). I couldn’t appreciate their invaluable insights and support more. A huge thank-you as well to my early mentors: David Yunis (TTIC), Chenghao Yang (UChicago), and Marcelo Sandoval-Castañeda (TTIC)—they taught me so much when I knew nothing about research. Be sure to check out their interesting work!

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