Chen Fan

PhD student, University of British Columbia

Joined

September 2021

Names

Chen Fan (Preferred)

Emails

****@umass.edu (Confirmed)

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****@outlook.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

University of British Columbia (ubc.ca)

2022 – 2026

MS student

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (umass.edu)

2021 – 2022

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

2022 – 2026

PhD Advisor

Christos Thrampoulidis

2022 – 2026

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Implicit Bias of Polyak and Line-Search Step Sizes on Linear Classification with Separable Data
Chen Fan, Reza Babanezhad Harikandeh, Christos Thrampoulidis, Mark Schmidt, Sharan Vaswani
- NeurIPS 2025 Workshop
- Readers: Everyone
Implicit Bias of Spectral Descent and Muon on Multiclass Separable Data
Chen Fan, Mark Schmidt, Christos Thrampoulidis
- HiLD at ICML 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Implicit Bias of Spectral Descent and Muon on Multiclass Separable Data
Chen Fan, Mark Schmidt, Christos Thrampoulidis
- NeurIPS 2025 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
MSL: An Adaptive Momentem-based Stochastic Line-search Framework
Chen Fan, Sharan Vaswani, Christos Thrampoulidis, Mark Schmidt
- NeurIPS 2023 Workshop Poster
- Readers: Everyone
BiSLS/SPS: Auto-tune Step Sizes for Stable Bi-level Optimization
Chen Fan, Gaspard Choné-Ducasse, Mark Schmidt, Christos Thrampoulidis
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fast Convergence of Random Reshuffling under Interpolation and the Polyak-\L ojasiewicz Condition
Chen Fan, Christos Thrampoulidis, Mark Schmidt
- Published: 23 Nov 2022, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- OPT 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Sign-MAML: Efficient Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning by SignSGD
Chen Fan, Parikshit Ram, Sijia Liu
- Published: 10 Dec 2021, Last Modified: 30 Dec 2025
- NeurIPS 2021 Workshop MetaLearn Poster
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors