Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback
Human demonstrations and preference feedback are used to improve how a language model follows instructions.
THE RESEARCH ATLAS
Scaling social science research
An open-source toolkit uses language models to help turn qualitative text and image data into measurable variables.
Institution and location sources
Location refers to credited institutions or the listed organization, not author citizenship or an exhaustive collaboration list.
Why read this
Read the methodology and validation requirements before treating model-generated measurements as evidence.
Citation
@misc{team2026scaling,
title = {Scaling social science research},
author = {OpenAI Economic Research Team},
year = {2026},
url = {https://openai.com/index/scaling-social-science-research/}
}Rights remain with the original authors. Refer to the original source for citations and licensing.
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