Reports
Technical reports, surveys, and in-depth analyses from our research group.
Can AI Clones Predict How DAOs Vote? Digital Clones for On-Chain Governance
Jianda Mao, Zhenhang Shang, Yingzhe Yu, Kani Chen2026-04-09
How we use digital clones — AI stand-ins for individual DAO voters built from their on-chain history — to predict governance outcomes before votes close. Includes a 19-proposal close-call benchmark, design choices, and an honest miss.
digital cloneDAOgovernanceLLM agentsWeb3voting prediction
Cognitive Archetype Extraction: Beyond Demographics for Audience Modeling
Zhenhang Shang, Jianda Mao, Yingzhe Yu, Kani Chen2026-03-20
A schema-first pipeline that extracts cognitive archetypes from real comment behavior — clustering audiences by attention, reasoning, risk cognition, and social role rather than by age or geography.
digital cloneaudience modelingLLM agentsHDBSCANWeb3