These projects investigated problems such as analyzing how GPT-2 represents grammar, measuring the interpretability of models trained on Coinrun, and predicting epileptic seizures using brain recordings. More information about the next class of Scholars and how to apply will be announced this fall.
The OpenAI Scholars program provides stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning and open-source a project.
Our Scholars have demonstrated core technical skills across various expert domains and self-motivation—critical competencies for a self-directed program like this one. They each entered the field of machine learning as relative newcomers, and we hope their progress shows how accessible machine learning is.

Learn more about our Scholars program.
Final projects
Alethea Power
Mentor: Christine Payne
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Looking for Grammar in All The Right Places

Andre Carerra
Mentor: Melanie Subbiah
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Semantic Parsing English to GraphQL

Cathy Yeh
Mentor: Jerry Tworek
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Long Term Credit Assignment with Temporal Reward Transport

Jorge Orbay
Mentor: Karl Cobbe
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Quantifying Interpretability of Models Trained on Coinrun

Kamal Ndousse
Mentor: Natasha Jaques
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Social Learning in Independent Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kata Slama
Mentor: Johannes Otterbach
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Towards Epileptic Seizure Prediction with Deep Network

Pamela Mishkin
Mentor: Alec Radford
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Universal Adversarial Perturbations and Language Models

Diversity is core to AI having a positive effect on the world—it’s necessary to ensure the advanced AI systems in the future are built to benefit everyone.
If you’re excited to begin your own journey into ML, check out some of our educational materials. More information about the next class of scholars and how to apply will be announced this fall. Stay tuned!
Huge thanks to Microsoft for providing Azure compute credits to scholars, to our mentors for their time and commitment, and to all the supporters that made this program possible.