Junfeng Wen

Assistant Professor, Carleton University

Joined

January 2018

Names

Junfeng Wen

Emails

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@ualberta.ca (Confirmed)

****@layer6.ai (Confirmed)

****@carleton.ca (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Assistant Professor

Carleton University (carleton.ca)

2022 – Present

Machine Learning Scientist

Layer 6 AI (layer6.ai)

2021 – 2022

PhD student

University of Alberta (ualberta.ca)

2013 – 2020

Research Intern

Borealis AI (borealisai.com)

2017 – 2018

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

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Expertise

transfer learning

Present

reinforcement learning

Present

federated learning

Present

Publications

Temporal Difference Learning for Diffusion Models
Qizhen Ying, Yangchen Pan, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Junfeng Wen
- ICLR 2026 Conference Desk Rejected Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Policy Optimization with $f$-Divergence Regularization
Dawei Zhang, Junfeng Wen
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
LookWhere? Efficient Visual Recognition by Learning Where to Look and What to See from Self-Supervision
Anthony Fuller, Yousef Yassin, Junfeng Wen, Tarek Ibrahim, Daniel Kyrollos, James R Green, Evan Shelhamer
- NeurIPS 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
An MRP Formulation for Supervised Learning: Generalized Temporal Difference Learning Models
Yangchen Pan, Junfeng Wen, Chenjun Xiao, Philip Torr
- ARLET 2024 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Enhanced Combinatorial Contextual Neural Bandit Approach for Client Selection in Federated Learning
Xiangyu Ma, Wei Shi, Junfeng Wen
- EICC 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Generalized Temporal Difference Learning Models for Supervised Learning
Yangchen Pan, Junfeng Wen, Chenjun Xiao, Philip Torr
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Find Your Friends: Personalized Federated Learning with the Right Collaborators
Yi Sui, Junfeng Wen, Yenson Lau, Brendan Leigh Ross, Jesse C Cresswell
- Published: 21 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 15 Jan 2026
- FL-NeurIPS 2022 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Find Your Friends: Personalized Federated Learning with the Right Collaborators
Yi Sui, Junfeng Wen, Yenson Lau, Brendan Leigh Ross, Jesse C Cresswell
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 14 Jan 2026
- Submitted to ICLR 2023
- Readers: Everyone
A Parametric Class of Approximate Gradient Updates for Policy Optimization
Ramki Gummadi, Saurabh Kumar, Junfeng Wen, Dale Schuurmans
- 2022 (modified: 05 Oct 2022)
- ICML 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Characterizing the Gap Between Actor-Critic and Policy Gradient
Junfeng Wen, Saurabh Kumar, Ramki Gummadi, Dale Schuurmans
- 2021 (modified: 16 Sept 2021)
- ICML 2021
- Readers: Everyone

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