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OpenAI Scholars
We’re providing 6–10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project.
Some considerations on learning to explore via meta-reinforcement learning
Ingredients for robotics research
We’re releasing eight simulated robotics environments and a Baselines implementation of Hindsight Experience Replay, all developed for our research over the past year. We’ve used these environments to train models which work on physical robots. We’re also releasing a set of requests for robotics research.
Multi-Goal Reinforcement Learning: Challenging robotics environments and request for research
OpenAI hackathon
Come to OpenAI’s office in San Francisco’s Mission District for talks and a hackathon on Saturday, March 3rd.
Preparing for malicious uses of AI
We’ve co-authored a paper that forecasts how malicious actors could misuse AI technology, and potential ways we can prevent and mitigate these threats. This paper is the outcome of almost a year of sustained work with our colleagues at the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Center for a New American Security, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others.
OpenAI supporters
We’re excited to welcome new donors to OpenAI.
Interpretable machine learning through teaching
We’ve designed a method that encourages AIs to teach each other with examples that also make sense to humans. Our approach automatically selects the most informative examples to teach a concept—for instance, the best images to describe the concept of dogs—and experimentally we found our approach to be effective at teaching both AIs
Discovering types for entity disambiguation
We’ve built a system for automatically figuring out which object is meant by a word by having a neural network decide if the word belongs to each of about 100 automatically-discovered “types” (non-exclusive categories).
Requests for Research 2.0
We’re releasing a new batch of seven unsolved problems which have come up in the course of our research at OpenAI.
Scaling Kubernetes to 2,500 nodes
Block-sparse GPU kernels
We’re releasing highly-optimized GPU kernels for an underexplored class of neural network architectures: networks with block-sparse weights. Depending on the chosen sparsity, these kernels can run orders of magnitude faster than cuBLAS or cuSPARSE. We’ve used them to attain state-of-the-art results in text sentiment analysis and generative modeling of text and images.
Learning sparse neural networks through L₀ regularization
Interpretable and pedagogical examples
Learning a hierarchy
We’ve developed a hierarchical reinforcement learning algorithm that learns high-level actions useful for solving a range of tasks, allowing fast solving of tasks requiring thousands of timesteps. Our algorithm, when applied to a set of navigation problems, discovers a set of high-level actions for walking and crawling in different directions, which enables the agent to master new navigation tasks quickly.
Generalizing from simulation
Our latest robotics techniques allow robot controllers, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on physical robots, to react to unplanned changes in the environment as they solve simple tasks. That is, we’ve used these techniques to build closed-loop systems rather than open-loop ones as before.
Sim-to-real transfer of robotic control with dynamics randomization
Asymmetric actor critic for image-based robot learning
Domain randomization and generative models for robotic grasping
Meta-learning for wrestling
We show that for the task of simulated robot wrestling, a meta-learning agent can learn to quickly defeat a stronger non-meta-learning agent, and also show that the meta-learning agent can adapt to physical malfunction.