publications

2026

1. ACL

   

   TURTLEAI: Benchmarking Multimodal Models for Visual Programming in Turtle Graphics

   Chao Wen, Jacqueline Staub, and Adish Singla

   In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Findings, 2026

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2025

1. Preprint

   

   Exploration vs. Fixation: Scaffolding Divergent and Convergent Thinking for Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models

   Chao Wen, Tung Phung, Pronita Mehrotra, Sumit Gulwani, and 3 more authors

   In Preprint, 2025

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2. ACL

   

   Program Synthesis Benchmark for Visual Programming in XLogoOnline Environment

   Chao Wen, Jacqueline Staub, and Adish Singla

   In Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025

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2024

1. SIGCSE Virtual

   

   Predicting Student Performance Using Sequence Models in XLogoOnline

   Jeremy Marbach, Jacqueline Staub, Dirk Schmerenbeck, and Chao Wen

   In ACM Virtual Global Computing Education Conference (SIGCSE Virtual), 2024

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2. AIED

   

   Task Synthesis for Elementary Visual Programming in XLogoOnline Environment

   Chao Wen, Ahana Ghosh, Jacqueline Staub, and Adish Singla

   In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), Late-Breaking Results, 2024

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2022

1. WSDM

   

   A Cooperative-Competitive Multi-Agent Framework for Auto-bidding in Online Advertising

   Chao Wen, Miao Xu, Zhilin Zhang, Zhenzhe Zheng, and 11 more authors

   In ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), 2022

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2020

1. AAAI

   

   SMIX(λ): Enhancing Centralized Value Functions for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

   Chao Wen, Xinghu Yao, Yuhui Wang, and Xiaoyang Tan

   In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2020

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