About Qiyu Chen

This website is a small archive for my study, research, and life. I use it to keep course notes, essays, film reviews, travel records, and research updates in one place.

Profile

I am an undergraduate student at the School of Physics, Peking University, with a double major in art history. My current interests sit near computational neuroscience, learning theory, and the computational principles of the brain.

Education

• School of Physics, Peking University, undergraduate student, 2023-present.
• Double major in art history, Peking University, 2024-present.
• Chengdu No.7 High School, 2021-2023.

Publication

• Qiyu Chen and Guozhang Chen.
  Aligning Inductive Bias for Data-Efficient Generalization in State Space Models.
  arXiv:2509.20789 [cs.LG], 2025.
  [Paper]

Research Interests

• Computational neuroscience
• Computational principles of the brain
• State space models and inductive bias
• Data-efficient generalization

Honors

• Merit Student, 2024
• Scholarship of China Merchants Securities Co., 2024

Elsewhere

Outside research and coursework, I follow football, Formula One, musical theater, cinema, and art. These interests also appear across the posts here, sometimes as formal essays and sometimes as notes written after a film or a trip.