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Yang Chen

yangchen AT pku.edu.cn

Ph.D. student

Peking University

Biography

I am a Ph.D. student at Peking University (PKU). Here I am lucky enough to work with Prof. Zhouchen Lin. I get my Bachelor’s degree from the Turing Class of CS at School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Peking University.

Interests

  • Reasoning in LLMs
  • Learning Theory
  • Optimization

Education

  • B.S. in Computer Science (Summa Cum Laude), 2017-2021

    Peking University

Publications @ZERO Lab

Task-Robust Pre-Training for Worst-Case Downstream Adaptation. NeurIPS, 2023.

Pre-training has achieved remarkable success when transferred to downstream tasks. In machine learning, we care about not only the good …