My name is Chao Wen. I’m a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS). I am advised by Dr. Adish Singla in the Machine Teaching Group.

My research interests include AI for programming education, reinforcement learning, and large language models.

Publications

• Program Synthesis Benchmark for Visual Programming in XLogoOnline Environment
  Chao Wen, Jacqueline Staub, Adish Singla
  arXiv 2406.11334, 2024

• Task Synthesis for Elementary Visual Programming in XLogoOnline Environment
  Chao Wen, Ahana Ghosh, Jacqueline Staub, Adish Singla
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Late-Breaking Results Track, 2024
  [code]

• A Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Framework for Auto-bidding in Online Advertising
  Chao Wen, Miao Xu, Zhilin Zhang, Zhenzhe Zheng et al.
  ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022
  [code, poster]

• SMIX(λ): Enhancing Centralized Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
  Chao Wen, Xinghu Yao, Yuhui Wang, Xiaoyang Tan
  In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020
  [code]

• Truly Proximal Policy Optimization
  Yuhui Wang, Hao He, Chao Wen, Xiaoyang Tan
  arXiv:1903.07940, 2019
  [code]

Experience

• 2021.06 - 2022.07: Algorithm Engineer at Lazada, Alibaba Group.
• 2020.07 - 2021.01: Research Intern at Alimama, Alibaba Group.

Selected Honors

• National Scholarship for Graduate Students, China, 2020
• National Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, China, 2016