Shicong Cen

PhD student, CMU, Carnegie Mellon University

Joined

December 2020

Names

Shicong Cen (Preferred)

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****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

PhD student

CMU, Carnegie Mellon University (andrew.cmu.edu)

2019 – Present

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Yuejie Chi

2019 – Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

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
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
Federated Natural Policy Gradient and Actor Critic Methods for Multi-task Reinforcement Learning
Tong Yang, Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi
- NeurIPS 2024 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Federated Natural Policy Gradient Methods for Multi-task Reinforcement Learning
Tong Yang, Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi
- Submitted to ICLR 2024
- Readers: Everyone
Faster Last-iterate Convergence of Policy Optimization in Zero-Sum Markov Games
Shicong Cen, Yuejie Chi, Simon Shaolei Du, Lin Xiao
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 02 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Asynchronous Gradient Play in Zero-Sum Multi-agent Games
Ruicheng Ao, Shicong Cen, Yuejie Chi
- Published: 01 Feb 2023, Last Modified: 02 Mar 2023
- ICLR 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fast Policy Extragradient Methods for Competitive Games with Entropy Regularization
Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Fast Policy Extragradient Methods for Competitive Games with Entropy Regularization
Shicong Cen, Yuting Wei, Yuejie Chi
- Published: 09 Nov 2021, Last Modified: 05 May 2023
- NeurIPS 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Communication-Efficient Distributed Optimization in Networks with Gradient Tracking and Variance Reduction
Boyue Li, Shicong Cen, Yuxin Chen, Yuejie Chi
- 2020 (modified: 14 Apr 2023)
- AISTATS 2020
- Readers: Everyone

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