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Sam McCandlish

Sam McCandlish is a research scientist at OpenAI. His public homepage highlights work on scaling laws, optimization, and reinforcement learning, and links to code and publications.

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Last reviewedMar 12, 2026
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Public links

website Personal homepage github GitHub profile

Organizations

core OpenAI

Reports

Large Language Models Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

Official and primary sources

https://sammcandlish.github.io/ Official source · homepage

Supporting sources

https://github.com/sammcandlish Supporting source · github

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