OpenAI Team++ Update
OpenAI announced the addition of several high-profile machine learning researchers and interns, focusing their current efforts on unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning.
Weight Normalization: Accelerating Deep Neural Network Training
OpenAI researchers introduced weight normalization, a reparameterization technique that decouples weight vector length from direction to accelerate stochastic gradient descent convergence without the minibatch dependencies of batch normalization.
Introducing OpenAI: Non-Profit AI Research Initiative (December 2015)
On December 11, 2015, OpenAI announced its launch as a non-profit AI research organization dedicated to advancing digital intelligence for broad human benefit without financial constraints.