24/07/2026
✨ CityUHK CAMS - Keynote Speech by Professor Kosuke IMAI from Harvard University
Interested in how GenAI can transform causal and predictive inference? Join the upcoming CAMS keynote seminar, GenAI Powered Inference, featuring Professor Kosuke IMAI, Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor of Government and of Statistics at Harvard University. In this talk, Professor Imai will introduce GenAI-Powered Inference (GPI), a framework that leverages generative AI models to support inference over unstructured data, such as text and images. The session will demonstrate how these methods can be applied in real research settings, making it especially relevant to scholars and students working on data-intensive social science questions.
Date: 10 August 2026 (Monday)
Time: 5:15 PM – 7:00 PM
Mode: Hybrid (In-person / Zoom)
Venue: LI-1503, 1/F, Li Dak Sum Yip Yio Chin Academic Building, CityUHK
Abstract
We introduce GenAI-Powered Inference (GPI), a statistical framework for both causal and predictive inference using unstructured data. GPI leverages open-source Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) models – such as large language models and diffusion models – not only to generate unstructured data at scale but also to extract low-dimensional representations that capture their underlying structure. We illustrate the versatility of the GPI framework through three applications involving texts, images, and videos.
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