Jenny Zhang

About Me

I am Jenny Zhang (Alt first name: Zhuoting), currently a research scientist intern at Meta. I'm pursuing my PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of British Columbia and am a graduate student at the Vector Institute. Previously, I completed my undergraduate studies at Imperial College London. My research focuses on Reinforcement Learning, Self-Improving AI, and Open-Endedness.

Selected Publications

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  Darwin Godel Machine: Open-Ended Evolution of Self-Improving Agents

  Jenny Zhang *, Shengran Hu *, Cong Lu, Robert Lange +, Jeff Clune + (2025)

  preprint arXiv:2505.22954

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  OMNI-EPIC: Open-endedness via Models of human Notions of Interestingness with Environments Programmed in Code

  Maxence Faldor *, Jenny Zhang *, Antoine Cully +, Jeff Clune + (2024)

  In Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Learning Representations

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  OMNI: Open-endedness via models of human notions of interestingness

  Jenny Zhang, Joel Lehman, Kenneth Stanley, Jeff Clune (2023)

  In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations

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  Quality-Diversity through AI Feedback

  Herbie Bradley *, Andrew Dai *, Hannah Teufel, Jenny Zhang, Koen Oostermeijer, Marco Bellagente, Jeff Clune, Kenneth Stanley, Grégory Schott, Joel Lehman (2023)

  In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Learning Representations

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  Quality Diversity through Human Feedback

  Li Ding, Jenny Zhang, Jeff Clune, Lee Spector, Joel Lehman (2023)

  In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Machine Learning

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