Asgat Akmaev

Applied mathematician building ML systems.

AI researcher at VK — distilling SOTA encoder transformers into state-space architectures. Kaggle Competitions Expert. Founder of dot. and LooksAR. Applied Mathematics at HSE University (BSc ’28).

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Knowledge distillation of encoder transformers (ModernBERT, Qwen Embedding) into state-space and efficient-attention architectures at VK, supervised by the author of DenseAttention (ICML 2025).

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Writeups in the works: the Ariel solution (why Gaussian processes beat neural nets here) and an interactive note on GP denoising.

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