Undergraduate Student
California Institute of Technology
Email: clairechen AT caltech DOT edu

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Biography

Claire Chen is an undergraduate student at California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Her majors are Mathematics and Computer Science. She was very fortunate to work as a research assistant advised by Professor Nan Jiang, Professor Sergey Levine, and Professor Shangtong Zhang. Her research interest is in Reinforcement Learning and LLM Fine-Tuning. She regularly serves on the Program Committee in major AI venues, e.g., ICLR, ICML.

Conference Publications

Journal Articles

  • Optimal Policy Evaluation for Reinforcement Learning.
    Shuze Liu, Claire Chen, Will Ma, Shangtong Zhang.
    Working Paper.

Working Papers

  • Robust Data-Collection Policy Learning for Low-Variance Online Policy Evaluation.
    Claire Chen, Shuze Liu, Licheng Luo, Rohan Chandra, Nan Jiang, Shangtong Zhang.

  • Offline Two-Player Zero-Sum Markov Games with KL Regularization.
    Claire Chen*, Yuheng Zhang*, Xinyu Liu, Zixuan Xie, Shuze Liu, Nan Jiang.

  • Beyond Pessimism: Offline Learning in KL-regularized Games.
    Yuheng Zhang*, Claire Chen*, Nan Jiang.

  • Convergence of Two-Timescale Stochastic Approximation with Markovian Samples and Applications in Reinforcement Learning.
    Vagul Mahadevan, Claire Chen, Shuze Liu, Shangtong Zhang.

  • Transformers Implement Nonlinear In-Context Reinforcement Learning: Convergence and Emergence.
    Zixuan Xie, Xinyu Liu, Claire Chen, Shuze Liu, Rohan Chandra, Shangtong Zhang.

  • MathlibLemma: Folklore Lemma Generation and Benchmark for Formal Mathematics.
    Xinyu Liu, Zixuan Xie, Amir Moeini, Claire Chen, Shuze Liu, Yu Meng, Aidong Zhang, Shangtong Zhang.

Program Committee

ICLR 2025-26, ICML 2025-26, AAAI 2026, AISTATS 2025-26, AMMAS 2025.

Guest Lecture

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (Fall 2024).

Grant