Research

Published Work

RWKV-7 "Goose" with Expressive Dynamic State Evolution Bo Peng, Ruichong Zhang, Daniel Goldstein, Eric Alcaide, Haowen Hou, Janna Lu, William Merrill et al. COLM 2025 (top 1% of submissions)
RADLADS: Rapid Attention Distillation to Linear Attention Decoders at Scale Daniel Goldstein, Eric Alcaide, Janna Lu, and Eugene Cheah COLM 2025 (top 5% of submissions)
Tacit Knowledge in Large Language Models Janna Lu Review of Austrian Economics, 2025
Don't Forget Institutions: A Review Essay of The Economics of Prosperity Janna Lu Review of Austrian Economics, 2024

Working Papers

Selected Popular Writing

Robots Free Humans from Repetitive Tasks AIER
RADLADS: Dropping the cost of AI architecture experiments by 250x FeatherlessAI Substack (with Eugene Cheah)
Ownership of Churches AIER (with Chris Lingl)

Awards & Fellowships

Emergent Ventures, 2024
#7 in Metaculus Q4 AI Forecasting, 2024
#9 in Metaculus Q3 AI Forecasting, 2024
AI Agents Hackathon Special Category Winner, Lablab/MindsDB, 2024
Bradley Fellowship, Lynne and Harry Bradley Foundation, 2023-24
AIER Graduate Summer Fellow, 2023
Mercatus Summer Research Fellowship, 2023
Hayek Program Fellow, Mercatus, 2022-2025
Ph.D. Fellowship, Mercatus, 2022-2025
AEI Summer Honors Program, 2022
Don Lavoie Fellowship, Mercatus, 2021

Peer Review

Review of Austrian Economics
Cosmos + Taxis