Arena.ai(@arena):Congratulations to seven research projects that were selected for the Spring 2026 cohort. - Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University: Statistically Efficient LLM Evaluation and Ranking with Pairwise Human Preference Data - Haifeng Xu @haifengxu0, University of Chicago: Towards a Principled Evaluation of LLMs’ Predictive Intelligence - Lihua Lei @lihua_lei_stat, Stanford University: Is Bradley–Terry Enough? Heterogeneous Preference Modeling for RLHF - Negin Golrezaei @NeginGolrezaei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Causal inference framework for multi-turn AI evaluation. - Ramesh Raskar @raskarmit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Toward Adaptive, Task-Conditional Evaluation for AI Agents - Steven Wu @zstevenwu and Andrew Ilyas @andrew_ilyas, Carnegie Mellon University: Goodhart’s Law on the Leaderboard: Can Cheap Preference Optimization Game Arena? -Tal Linzen @tallinzen, New York University: A Rigorous Evaluation of Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs Read more about the program details and submit your proposal for Fall 2026 here:

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Congratulations to seven research projects that were selected for the Spring 2026 cohort. - Emmanuel Candès, Stanford University: Statistically Efficient LLM Evaluation and Ranking with Pairwise Human Preference Data - Haifeng Xu @haifengxu0, University of Chicago: Towards a Principled Evaluation of LLMs’ Predictive Intelligence - Lihua Lei @lihua_lei_stat, Stanford University: Is Bradley–Terry Enough? Heterogeneous Preference Modeling for RLHF - Negin Golrezaei @NeginGolrezaei, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Causal inference framework for multi-turn AI evaluation. - Ramesh Raskar @raskarmit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Toward Adaptive, Task-Conditional Evaluation for AI Agents - Steven Wu @zstevenwu and Andrew Ilyas @andrew_ilyas, Carnegie Mellon University: Goodhart’s Law on the Leaderboard: Can Cheap Preference Optimization Game Arena? -Tal Linzen @tallinzen, New York University: A Rigorous Evaluation of Meta-Cognitive Monitoring in LLMs Read more about the program details and submit your proposal for Fall 2026 here: