Preprints & In-submission

Prophet Arena: A Live Benchmark for Predictive Intelligence
Project Launched; Paper in Preparation (2025)
✍️ Blogpost | 💻 Package
Prophet Arena Team (Leads: Tony Yang, Simon Mahns, Sida Li | Advisors: Jibang Wu, Haifeng Xu)

ShorterBetter: Guiding Reasoning Models to Find Optimal Inference Length for Efficient Reasoning
Preprint (Under Review) (2025)
🕸 Website | 💻 Code | 🤗 Huggingface (SB-7B)
Jingyang Yi, Jiazheng Wang, Sida Li

Conference & Journal Papers

Prediction-Powered Adaptive Shrinkage Estimation
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025)
📒 Slides | 📄 OpenReview | 💻 Code
Sida Li, Nikolaos Ignatiadis

AutoRA: Automated research assistant for closed-loop empirical research
Journal of Open Source Software (2024)
Sebastian Musslick, Benjamin Andrew, Chad C Williams, Sida Li, Ioana Marinescu, Marina Dubova, George T Dang, Younes Strittmatter, John G Holland

Workshop & Other Papers

GFN-SR: Generative Flow Networks for Symbolic Regression
NeurIPS AI4Science (2023)
Sida Li, Ioana Marinescu, Sebastian Musslick

Evaluating Computational Discovery in the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
AAAI Spring Symposium Series (2023)
Sebastian Musslick, Joshua Hewson, Ben Andrew, Sida Li, George Dang, John Gerrard Holland

Amortization and Surrogate Gaps in Variational Sequential Monte Carlo
Advanced Bayesian Methodologies Seminar (2023)
Sida Li, Aaron Schein

Feedback Linearization of Car Dynamics for Racing viar Reinforcement Learning
Arxiv (2021)
Michael Estrada, Sida Li, Xiangyu Cai