Mikhail Pavlov
Mikhail Pavlov was credited on research papers and system cards for several OpenAI models, from DALL-E to GPT-5. In 2021 he co-authored Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation, the paper behind DALL-E, and Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code. The GPT-4 technical report, dated 2023, named him scaling engineering lead for its vision section. He appeared among the contributors to the GPT-4o System Card in October 2024. He is also among the authors of the GPT-5 System Card, submitted in December 2025.
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Timeline
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February 2021
The DALL-E paper
He co-authors Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation, posted to arXiv in February 2021 and listed at ICML 2021. The paper is the research behind DALL-E, which OpenAI reveals in January 2021.
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July 2021
Evaluating code models
Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code, submitted to arXiv in July 2021, names him as a co-author.
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2023
Scaling lead on GPT-4
The GPT-4 technical report names him scaling engineering lead in its vision section.
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October 2024
The GPT-4o system card
Posted to arXiv in October 2024, the GPT-4o System Card names him among its contributors.
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December 2025
The GPT-5 system card
The GPT-5 System Card, submitted to arXiv in December 2025, lists him among its authors.
Sources and credits
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- [2102.12092] Zero-Shot Text-to-Image Generation
- Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents
- DALL-E - Wikipedia
- Pavlov, Mikhail | ML Anthology
- [2107.03374] Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
- GPT-4 Technical Report
- GPT-4o System Card
- [2601.03267] OpenAI GPT-5 System Card