Nick Rui

I'm a math undergrad at Stanford and a researcher at SAIL. Previously, I built software at AWS and caught frogs working in outdoor swimming pool management and operations.

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Research

I am broadly interested in data, reasoning, and interpretability.

Where's the Plan? Locating Latent Planning in Language Models with Lightweight Mechanistic Interventions
Nicole H. Ma, Nick Rui
Preprint, 2026

arXiv

We investigate where activation-level representations of future tokens form in open-source language models and whether it changes with scale.

Test-Time Meta-Adaptation with Self-Synthesis
Zeyneb N. Kaya, Nick Rui
ICLR Workshop on AI with Recursive Self-Improvement, 2026

arXiv

We introduce a bilevel optimization framework to train language models to self-adapt at inference time using reinforcement learning and meta-gradients.