--- title: "Melody Y. Guan · OpenAI — author profile and papers" description: "Melody Y. Guan, OpenAI: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Melody Y. Guan # Melody Y. Guan Melody Y. Guan has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Alec Helyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/), [Aleksander Madry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/), [Andrea Vallone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-vallone/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5035970318) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5035970318) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035970318) · [2,391 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035970318&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,718 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2951](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2951) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Melody+Y.+Guan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Melody+Y.+Guan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Melody+Y.+Guan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Melody+Y.+Guan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2017–2025 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**OpenAI** San Francisco · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pham-2018-efficient-neural-architecture-search-parameter/)** *(2018 · 699 citations)* Neural Architecture Search (NAS) can find strong models, but it is very costly: each candidate network is trained to convergence, scored, and then its weights are thrown away. 2. **[Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/)** *(2024 · 115 citations)* Conventional safety training (SFT, RLHF) has two weaknesses. LLMs answer instantly without deliberating, and they infer safety rules only indirectly from labeled examples. As a result, they can be jailbroken yet still refuse harmless requests. OpenAI researchers propose Deliberative Alignment, which teaches the model… 3. **[Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2025-monitoring-reasoning-models-misbehavior-risks/)** *(2025 · 63 citations)* The paper asks whether the reasoning traces of RL-trained language models can expose reward hacking, where an agent exploits flaws in its objective instead of solving the task. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameters Sharing ↗](https://openalex.org/W2962746461) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**Hieu Pham et al.*2018 · 1,209 citations* 2. [**Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Parameter Sharing arXiv:1802.03268**Hieu Pham, Melody Y. Guan, Barret Zoph, et al.*2018 · 699 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pham-2018-efficient-neural-architecture-search-parameter/) 3. [**Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models arXiv:2412.16339**Melody Y. Guan, Manas Joglekar, Eric Wallace, et al.*2024 · 115 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/) 4. [**Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation arXiv:2503.11926**Bowen Baker, Joost Huizinga, Leo Gao, et al.*2025 · 63 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/baker-2025-monitoring-reasoning-models-misbehavior-risks/) 5. **[Faster Discovery of Neural Architectures by Searching for Paths in a Large Model ↗](https://openalex.org/W2787387029) International Conference on Learning Representations · no summary yet**Hieu Pham et al.*2018 · 15 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alec Helyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/) - [Aleksander Madry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/) - [Andrea Vallone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-vallone/) - [Barret Zoph](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barret-zoph/) - [Boaz Barak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/) - [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/) - [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) - [Hieu Pham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-pham/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jakub Pachocki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/) - [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) - [Jeff Dean](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-dean/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - International Conference on Learning Representations - International Conference on Machine Learning ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,718 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [433 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/melody-y-guan/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026