Allen Nie

According to our database, Allen Nie authored at least 36 papers between 2017 and 2025.

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2025

Assessing the Quality of AI-Generated Exams: A Large-Scale Field Study.

Calvin Isley, Joshua Gilbert, Evangelos Kassos, Michaela Kocher, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Benjamin W. Domingue, Jake Hofman, Joscha Legewie, Teddy Svoronos, Charlotte Tuminelli, Sharad Goel

CoRR, August, 2025

Provably Learning from Language Feedback.

Wanqiao Xu, Allen Nie, Ruijie Zheng, Aditya Modi, Adith Swaminathan, Ching-An Cheng

CoRR, June, 2025

Teaching Large Language Models to Reason through Learning and Forgetting.

Tianwei Ni, Allen Nie, Sapana Chaudhary, Yao Liu, Huzefa Rangwala, Rasool Fakoor

CoRR, April, 2025

Exploring the Benefit of Customizing Feedback Interventions For Educators and Students With Offline Contextual Multi-Armed Bandits.

Joy Yun, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Dorottya Demszky

Proceedings of the 15th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2025

2024

Reinforcement learning tutor better supported lower performers in a math task.

Sherry Ruan, Allen Nie, William Steenbergen, Jiayu He, J. Q. Zhang, Meng Guo, Yao Liu, Kyle Dang Nguyen, Catherine Y. Wang, Rui Ying, James A. Landay, Emma Brunskill

Mach. Learn., May, 2024

On the Promising Path of Making Education Effective for Every Student.

Allen Nie

XRDS, 2024

Predicting Long Term Sequential Policy Value Using Softer Surrogates.

Hyunji Nam, Allen Nie, Ge Gao, Vasilis Syrgkanis, Emma Brunskill

CoRR, 2024

Improving Parallel Program Performance Through DSL-Driven Code Generation with LLM Optimizers.

Anjiang Wei, Allen Nie, Thiago S. F. X. Teixeira, Rohan Yadav, Wonchan Lee, Ke Wang, Alex Aiken

CoRR, 2024

EVOLvE: Evaluating and Optimizing LLMs For Exploration.

Allen Nie, Yi Su, Bo Chang, Jonathan N. Lee, Ed H. Chi, Quoc V. Le, Minmin Chen

CoRR, 2024

The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances.

Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Miroslav Suzara, Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Matt Peng, Mehran Sahami, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech

CoRR, 2024

Trace is the New AutoDiff - Unlocking Efficient Optimization of Computational Workflows.

Ching-An Cheng, Allen Nie, Adith Swaminathan

CoRR, 2024

The Importance of Directional Feedback for LLM-based Optimizers.

Allen Nie, Ching-An Cheng, Andrey Kolobov, Adith Swaminathan

CoRR, 2024

A Fast and Accurate Machine Learning Autograder for the Breakout Assignment.

Evan Zheran Liu, David Yuan, Ahmed Ahmed, Elyse Cornwall, Juliette Woodrow, Kaylee Burns, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech, Chelsea Finn

Proceedings of the 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2024

OPERA: Automatic Offline Policy Evaluation with Re-weighted Aggregates of Multiple Estimators.

Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Christina J. Yuan, Anirudhan Badrinath, Yannis Flet-Berliac, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Trace is the Next AutoDiff: Generative Optimization with Rich Feedback, Execution Traces, and LLMs.

Ching-An Cheng, Allen Nie, Adith Swaminathan

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2024, 2024

Estimating the Causal Treatment Effect of Unproductive Persistence.

Amelia Leon, Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the 14th Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, 2024

2023

Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models.

Aarohi Srivastava, Abhinav Rastogi, Abhishek Rao, Abu Awal Md Shoeb, Abubakar Abid, Adam Fisch, Adam R. Brown, Adam Santoro, Aditya Gupta, Adrià Garriga-Alonso, Agnieszka Kluska, Aitor Lewkowycz, Akshat Agarwal, Alethea Power, Alex Ray, Alex Warstadt, Alexander W. Kocurek, Ali Safaya, Ali Tazarv, Alice Xiang, Alicia Parrish, Allen Nie, Aman Hussain, Amanda Askell, Amanda Dsouza, Ambrose Slone, Ameet Rahane, Anantharaman S. Iyer, Anders Andreassen, Andrea Madotto, Andrea Santilli, Andreas Stuhlmüller, Andrew M. Dai, Andrew La, Andrew K. Lampinen, Andy Zou, Angela Jiang, Angelica Chen, Anh Vuong, Animesh Gupta, Anna Gottardi, Antonio Norelli, Anu Venkatesh, Arash Gholamidavoodi, Arfa Tabassum, Arul Menezes, Arun Kirubarajan, Asher Mullokandov, Ashish Sabharwal, Austin Herrick, Avia Efrat, Aykut Erdem, Ayla Karakas, B. Ryan Roberts, Bao Sheng Loe, Barret Zoph, Bartlomiej Bojanowski, Batuhan Özyurt, Behnam Hedayatnia, Behnam Neyshabur, Benjamin Inden, Benno Stein, Berk Ekmekci, Bill Yuchen Lin, Blake Howald, Bryan Orinion, Cameron Diao, Cameron Dour, Catherine Stinson, Cedrick Argueta, Cèsar Ferri Ramírez, Chandan Singh, Charles Rathkopf, Chenlin Meng, Chitta Baral, Chiyu Wu, Chris Callison-Burch, Chris Waites, Christian Voigt, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Potts, Cindy Ramirez, Clara E. Rivera, Clemencia Siro, Colin Raffel, Courtney Ashcraft, Cristina Garbacea, Damien Sileo, Dan Garrette, Dan Hendrycks, Dan Kilman, Dan Roth, Daniel Freeman, Daniel Khashabi, Daniel Levy, Daniel Moseguí González, Danielle Perszyk, Danny Hernandez, Danqi Chen, Daphne Ippolito, Dar Gilboa, David Dohan, David Drakard, David Jurgens, Debajyoti Datta, Deep Ganguli, Denis Emelin, Denis Kleyko, Deniz Yuret, Derek Chen, Derek Tam, Dieuwke Hupkes, Diganta Misra, Dilyar Buzan, Dimitri Coelho Mollo, Diyi Yang, Dong-Ho Lee, Dylan Schrader, Ekaterina Shutova, Ekin Dogus Cubuk, Elad Segal, Eleanor Hagerman, Elizabeth Barnes, Elizabeth Donoway, Ellie Pavlick, Emanuele Rodolà, Emma Lam, Eric Chu, Eric Tang, Erkut Erdem, Ernie Chang, Ethan A. Chi, Ethan Dyer, Ethan J. Jerzak, Ethan Kim, Eunice Engefu Manyasi, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Fanyue Xia, Fatemeh Siar, Fernando Martínez-Plumed, Francesca Happé, François Chollet, Frieda Rong, Gaurav Mishra, Genta Indra Winata, Gerard de Melo, Germán Kruszewski, Giambattista Parascandolo, Giorgio Mariani, Gloria Wang, Gonzalo Jaimovitch-López, Gregor Betz, Guy Gur-Ari, Hana Galijasevic, Hannah Kim, Hannah Rashkin, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Harsh Mehta, Hayden Bogar, Henry Shevlin, Hinrich Schütze, Hiromu Yakura, Hongming Zhang, Hugh Mee Wong, Ian Ng, Isaac Noble, Jaap Jumelet, Jack Geissinger, Jackson Kernion, Jacob Hilton, Jaehoon Lee, Jaime Fernández Fisac, James B. Simon, James Koppel, James Zheng, James Zou, Jan Kocon, Jana Thompson, Janelle Wingfield, Jared Kaplan, Jarema Radom, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jason Phang, Jason Wei, Jason Yosinski, Jekaterina Novikova, Jelle Bosscher, Jennifer Marsh, Jeremy Kim, Jeroen Taal, Jesse H. Engel, Jesujoba Alabi, Jiacheng Xu, Jiaming Song, Jillian Tang, Joan Waweru, John Burden, John Miller, John U. Balis, Jonathan Batchelder, Jonathan Berant, Jörg Frohberg, Jos Rozen, José Hernández-Orallo, Joseph Boudeman, Joseph Guerr, Joseph Jones, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Joshua S. Rule, Joyce Chua, Kamil Kanclerz, Karen Livescu, Karl Krauth, Karthik Gopalakrishnan, Katerina Ignatyeva, Katja Markert, Kaustubh D. Dhole, Kevin Gimpel, Kevin Omondi, Kory W. Mathewson, Kristen Chiafullo, Ksenia Shkaruta, Kumar Shridhar, Kyle McDonell, Kyle Richardson, Laria Reynolds, Leo Gao, Li Zhang, Liam Dugan, Lianhui Qin, Lidia Contreras Ochando, Louis-Philippe Morency, Luca Moschella, Lucas Lam, Lucy Noble, Ludwig Schmidt, Luheng He, Luis Oliveros Colón, Luke Metz, Lütfi Kerem Senel, Maarten Bosma, Maarten Sap, Maartje ter Hoeve, Maheen Farooqi, Manaal Faruqui, Mantas Mazeika, Marco Baturan, Marco Marelli, Marco Maru, María José Ramírez-Quintana, Marie Tolkiehn, Mario Giulianelli, Martha Lewis, Martin Potthast, Matthew L. Leavitt, Matthias Hagen, Mátyás Schubert, Medina Baitemirova, Melody Arnaud, Melvin McElrath, Michael A. Yee, Michael Cohen, Michael Gu, Michael I. Ivanitskiy, Michael Starritt, Michael Strube, Michal Swedrowski, Michele Bevilacqua, Michihiro Yasunaga, Mihir Kale, Mike Cain, Mimee Xu, Mirac Suzgun, Mitch Walker, Mo Tiwari, Mohit Bansal, Moin Aminnaseri, Mor Geva, Mozhdeh Gheini, Mukund Varma T., Nanyun Peng, Nathan A. Chi, Nayeon Lee, Neta Gur-Ari Krakover, Nicholas Cameron, Nicholas Roberts, Nick Doiron, Nicole Martinez, Nikita Nangia, Niklas Deckers, Niklas Muennighoff, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Niveditha Iyer, Noah Constant, Noah Fiedel, Nuan Wen, Oliver Zhang, Omar Agha, Omar Elbaghdadi, Omer Levy, Owain Evans, Pablo Antonio Moreno Casares, Parth Doshi, Pascale Fung, Paul Pu Liang, Paul Vicol, Pegah Alipoormolabashi, Peiyuan Liao, Percy Liang, Peter Chang, Peter Eckersley, Phu Mon Htut, Pinyu Hwang, Piotr Milkowski, Piyush Patil, Pouya Pezeshkpour, Priti Oli, Qiaozhu Mei, Qing Lyu, Qinlang Chen, Rabin Banjade, Rachel Etta Rudolph, Raefer Gabriel, Rahel Habacker, Ramon Risco, Raphaël Millière, Rhythm Garg, Richard Barnes, Rif A. Saurous, Riku Arakawa, Robbe Raymaekers, Robert Frank, Rohan Sikand, Roman Novak, Roman Sitelew, Ronan LeBras, Rosanne Liu, Rowan Jacobs, Rui Zhang, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Ryan Chi, Ryan Lee, Ryan Stovall, Ryan Teehan, Rylan Yang, Sahib Singh, Saif M. Mohammad, Sajant Anand, Sam Dillavou, Sam Shleifer, Sam Wiseman, Samuel Gruetter, Samuel R. Bowman, Samuel S. Schoenholz, Sanghyun Han, Sanjeev Kwatra, Sarah A. Rous, Sarik Ghazarian, Sayan Ghosh, Sean Casey, Sebastian Bischoff, Sebastian Gehrmann, Sebastian Schuster, Sepideh Sadeghi, Shadi Hamdan, Sharon Zhou, Shashank Srivastava, Sherry Shi, Shikhar Singh, Shima Asaadi, Shixiang Shane Gu, Shubh Pachchigar, Shubham Toshniwal, Shyam Upadhyay, Shyamolima (Shammie) Debnath, Siamak Shakeri, Simon Thormeyer, Simone Melzi, Siva Reddy, Sneha Priscilla Makini, Soo-Hwan Lee, Spencer Torene, Sriharsha Hatwar, Stanislas Dehaene, Stefan Divic, Stefano Ermon, Stella Biderman, Stephanie Lin, Stephen Prasad, Steven T. Piantadosi, Stuart M. Shieber, Summer Misherghi, Svetlana Kiritchenko, Swaroop Mishra, Tal Linzen, Tal Schuster, Tao Li, Tao Yu, Tariq Ali, Tatsu Hashimoto, Te-Lin Wu, Théo Desbordes, Theodore Rothschild, Thomas Phan, Tianle Wang, Tiberius Nkinyili, Timo Schick, Timofei Kornev, Titus Tunduny, Tobias Gerstenberg, Trenton Chang, Trishala Neeraj, Tushar Khot, Tyler Shultz, Uri Shaham, Vedant Misra, Vera Demberg, Victoria Nyamai, Vikas Raunak, Vinay V. Ramasesh, Vinay Uday Prabhu, Vishakh Padmakumar, Vivek Srikumar, William Fedus, William Saunders, William Zhang, Wout Vossen, Xiang Ren, Xiaoyu Tong, Xinran Zhao, Xinyi Wu, Xudong Shen, Yadollah Yaghoobzadeh, Yair Lakretz, Yangqiu Song, Yasaman Bahri, Yejin Choi, Yichi Yang, Yiding Hao, Yifu Chen, Yonatan Belinkov, Yu Hou, Yufang Hou, Yuntao Bai, Zachary Seid, Zhuoye Zhao, Zijian Wang, Zijie J. Wang, Zirui Wang, Ziyi Wu

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2023

LLF-Bench: Benchmark for Interactive Learning from Language Feedback.

Ching-An Cheng, Andrey Kolobov, Dipendra Misra, Allen Nie, Adith Swaminathan

CoRR, 2023

Reinforcement Learning Tutor Better Supported Lower Performers in a Math Task.

Sherry Ruan, Allen Nie, William Steenbergen, Jiayu He, JQ Zhang, Meng Guo, Yao Liu, Kyle Dang Nguyen, Catherine Y. Wang, Rui Ying, James A. Landay, Emma Brunskill

CoRR, 2023

MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks.

Allen Nie, Yuhui Zhang, Atharva Amdekar, Chris Piech, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Tobias Gerstenberg

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Waypoint Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Supervised Learning with Intermediate Targets.

Anirudhan Badrinath, Yannis Flet-Berliac, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2023, 2023

Understanding the Impact of Reinforcement Learning Personalization on Subgroups of Students in Math Tutoring.

Allen Nie, Ann-Katrin Reuel, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners, Doctoral Consortium and Blue Sky, 2023

Model-Based Offline Reinforcement Learning with Local Misspecification.

Kefan Dong, Yannis Flet-Berliac, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2023

2022

Data-Efficient Pipeline for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Limited Data.

Allen Nie, Yannis Flet-Berliac, Deon R. Jordan, William Steenbergen, Emma Brunskill

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

Giving Feedback on Interactive Student Programs with Meta-Exploration.

Evan Zheran Liu, Moritz Stephan, Allen Nie, Chris Piech, Emma Brunskill, Chelsea Finn

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 35: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2022, 2022

2021

Play to Grade: Testing Coding Games as Classifying Markov Decision Process.

Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech

Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 34: Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2021, 2021

2020

LitGen: Genetic Literature Recommendation Guided by Human Explanations.

Allen Nie, Arturo L. Pineda, Matt W. Wright, Hannah Wand, Bryan Wulf, Helio A. Costa, Ronak Y. Patel, Carlos D. Bustamante, James Zou

Proceedings of the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2020, 2020

Pragmatic Issue-Sensitive Image Captioning.

Allen Nie, Reuben Cohn-Gordon, Christopher Potts

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020, 2020

Inducing Grammar from Long Short-Term Memory Networks by Shapley Decomposition.

Yuhui Zhang, Allen Nie

Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop, 2020

2019

VetTag: improving automated veterinary diagnosis coding via large-scale language modeling.

Yuhui Zhang, Allen Nie, Ashley Zehnder, Rodney López Page, James Zou

npj Digit. Medicine, 2019

Learning to Explain: Answering Why-Questions via Rephrasing.

Allen Nie, Erin D. Bennett, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2019

DisSent: Learning Sentence Representations from Explicit Discourse Relations.

Allen Nie, Erin Bennett, Noah D. Goodman

Proceedings of the 57th Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019

2018

DeepTag: inferring diagnoses from veterinary clinical notes.

Allen Nie, Ashley Zehnder, Rodney López Page, Yuhui Zhang, Arturo López Pineda, Manuel A. Rivas, Carlos D. Bustamante, James Zou

npj Digit. Medicine, 2018

Large-scale Generative Modeling to Improve Automated Veterinary Disease Coding.

Yuhui Zhang, Allen Nie, James Zou

CoRR, 2018

DeepTag: inferring all-cause diagnoses from clinical notes in under-resourced medical domain.

Allen Nie, Ashley Zehnder, Rodney López Page, Arturo L. Pineda, Manuel A. Rivas, Carlos D. Bustamante, James Zou

CoRR, 2018

2017

DisSent: Sentence Representation Learning from Explicit Discourse Relations.

Allen Nie, Erin D. Bennett, Noah D. Goodman

CoRR, 2017