Dylan Hutson

I am a Computer Science and Engineering PhD student at the University of Cincinnati, advised by Prof. Tianyu Jiang in the CincyNLP Lab. My research explores the behavior and interpretability of large language models.

Education

  • University of Cincinnati, PhD student, 2021-2027
  • The Ohio State University, B.S. Double Major in Computer Science and Engineering and Theoretical Mathematics, 2017-2021

Publications

2025

GuessingGame: Measuring the Informativeness of Open-Ended Questions in Large Language Models

Dylan Hutson, Daniel Vennemeyer, Aneesh Deshmukh, Justin Zhan, Tianyu Jiang

EMNLP 2025 Main Conference

We introduce GuessingGame, a protocol for evaluating large language models (LLMs) as strategic question-askers in open-ended, open-domain settings.

Informativeness quantification, Llm behavior analysis, Commonsense reasoning, Open-domain question answering