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Alec Radford is a credited author of Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training.

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Alec Radford → authored → Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

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Alec Radfordauthored ↓Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

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Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training

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“Alec Radford”

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Authors: Alec Radford; Karthik Narasimhan
Version: Technical paper PDF served by OpenAI; the PDF prints no date. OpenAI’s release page of 11 June 2018 links it (cross-family check, item A005). Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 eb81a65e0856bd38e855e1f1de6ee12e7c3eb92ae05c8270d345a475beb631d0). The author list is the byline as printed on the first page.
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Accessed: 2026-10-28
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Alec Radford, Karthik Narasimhan, “Improving Language Understanding by Generative Pre-Training”.
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Check notes: Candidate pack passage, key papers (research/key-papers). The printed name (2 words) was found in the byline of the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28. No human editorial review.

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