Yining Chen

Researcher, OpenAI

Joined

July 2019

Names

Yining Chen

Emails

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Personal Links

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Career & Education History

Researcher

OpenAI (openai.com)

2023 – Present

PhD student

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2018 – 2023

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Tengyu Ma

2018 – 2023

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

Prover-Verifier Games improve legibility of LLM outputs
Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Yining Chen, Harrison Edwards, Jan Leike, Nat McAleese, Yuri Burda
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Eliciting Strong Capabilities With Weak Supervision
Collin Burns, Pavel Izmailov, Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Bowen Baker, Leo Gao, Leopold Aschenbrenner, Yining Chen, Adrien Ecoffet, Manas Joglekar, Jan Leike, Ilya Sutskever, Jeffrey Wu
- ICML 2024 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Zero-shot causal learning
Hamed Nilforoshan, Michael Moor, Yusuf H Roohani, Yining Chen, Anja Šurina, Michihiro Yasunaga, Sara Oblak, Jure Leskovec
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Statistically Meaningful Approximation: a Case Study on Approximating Turing Machines with Transformers
Colin Wei, Yining Chen, Tengyu Ma
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 21 Oct 2022
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Iterative Feature Matching: Toward Provable Domain Generalization with Logarithmic Environments
Yining Chen, Elan Rosenfeld, Mark Sellke, Tengyu Ma, Andrej Risteski
- Published: 31 Oct 2022, Last Modified: 12 Jan 2023
- NeurIPS 2022 Accept
- Readers: Everyone
Statistically Meaningful Approximation: a Theoretical Analysis for Approximating Turing Machines with Transformers
Colin Wei, Yining Chen, Tengyu Ma
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
Theoretical Analysis of Self-Training with Deep Networks on Unlabeled Data
Colin Wei, Kendrick Shen, Yining Chen, Tengyu Ma
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
Heteroskedastic and Imbalanced Deep Learning with Adaptive Regularization
Kaidi Cao, Yining Chen, Junwei Lu, Nikos Arechiga, Adrien Gaidon, Tengyu Ma
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Active Online Domain Adaptation
Yining Chen, Haipeng Luo, Tengyu Ma, Chicheng Zhang
- 12 Jun 2020 (modified: 30 Dec 2025)
- LifelongML@ICML2020
- Readers: Everyone
Recurrent Neural Networks as Weighted Language Recognizers
Yining Chen, Sorcha Gilroy, Andreas Maletti, Jonathan May, Kevin Knight
- 2018 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- NAACL-HLT 2018
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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