Jincheng Mei

Research Scientist, Google DeepMind

Joined

September 2018

Names

Jincheng Mei (Preferred)

Emails

****@ualberta.ca (Confirmed)

****@sjtu.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Homepage

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Career & Education History

Research Scientist

Google DeepMind (google.com)

2022 – Present

PhD student

University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2015 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Dale Schuurmans

2015 – 2021

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Revisiting Mixture Policies in Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic
Jiamin He, Samuel Neumann, Jincheng Mei, Adam White, Martha White
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Revisiting Mixture Policies in Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic
Jiamin He, Samuel Neumann, Jincheng Mei, Adam White, Martha White
- ARLET
- Readers: Everyone
Beyond Expectations: Learning with Stochastic Dominance Made Practical
Shicong Cen, Jincheng Mei, Hanjun Dai, Dale Schuurmans, Yuejie Chi, Bo Dai
- Accepted by TMLR
- Readers: Everyone
REINFORCE Converges to Optimal Policies with Any Learning Rate
Samuel McLaughlin Robertson, Thang D. Chu, Bo Dai, Dale Schuurmans, Csaba Szepesvari, Jincheng Mei
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Faster WIND: Accelerating Iterative Best-of-$N$ Distillation for LLM Alignment
Tong Yang, Jincheng Mei, Hanjun Dai, Zixin Wen, Shicong Cen, Dale Schuurmans, Yuejie Chi, Bo Dai
- AISTATS 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Value-Incentivized Preference Optimization: A Unified Approach to Online and Offline RLHF
Shicong Cen, Jincheng Mei, Katayoon Goshvadi, Hanjun Dai, Tong Yang, Sherry Yang, Dale Schuurmans, Yuejie Chi, Bo Dai
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Small steps no more: Global convergence of stochastic gradient bandits for arbitrary learning rates
Jincheng Mei, Bo Dai, Alekh Agarwal, Sharan Vaswani, Anant Raj, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Target Networks and Over-parameterization Stabilize Off-policy Bootstrapping with Function Approximation
Fengdi Che, Chenjun Xiao, Jincheng Mei, Bo Dai, Ramki Gummadi, Oscar A Ramirez, Christopher K Harris, A. Rupam Mahmood, Dale Schuurmans
- ICML 2024 Spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Ordering-based Conditions for Global Convergence of Policy Gradient Methods
Jincheng Mei, Bo Dai, Alekh Agarwal, Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans
- NeurIPS 2023 oral
- Readers: Everyone
Stochastic Gradient Succeeds for Bandits
Jincheng Mei, Zixin Zhong, Bo Dai, Alekh Agarwal, Csaba Szepesvari, Dale Schuurmans
- ICML 2023 Poster
- Readers: Everyone

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