Researcher
Yuri Burda
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Burda helped establish curiosity-driven learning, in which an agent rewards itself for reaching unfamiliar situations when external rewards are scarce. At OpenAI he also contributed to generative models, robust reasoning and methods that train models to produce answers humans can more easily verify.
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Last editorial review: August 10, 2026