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The awards ceremony for IOAI 2025, the largest artificial intelligence olympiad, has just concluded.
Kazakhstan competed for the first time and immediately achieved an exceptional result: seven medals, including three golds.
On behalf of the DSML.KZ community, we sincerely congratulate our champions and wish them many more victories in artificial intelligence!
Gold medals: Zhanibek Kassymkan, Abu Kanabek, Sultanbi Issatay
Silver medal: Talim Aushakhman
Bronze medals: Timur Shakurov, Dauzhan Beketov, Sultanbek Sary
Honorable mention: Batyr Yerdenov
We would also like to give special thanks to everyone who helped prepare our national team for this success:
At this seminar, we will discuss “Diffusion Policy: Visuomotor Policy Learning via Action Diffusion” (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04137v4).
The paper presents Diffusion Policy, a new approach to generating robot behavior in which a visuomotor policy is modeled as a conditional denoising diffusion process. It consistently outperforms existing methods by 46.9% on average. The model learns the gradient of the action density function and optimizes behavior during inference through stochastic Langevin dynamics. It handles multimodal distributions and high-dimensional actions well while maintaining stable training. Key technical choices include receding-horizon control, visual conditioning, and a time-series transformer. The work opens a path toward new diffusion-based policy-learning methods.
The Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence, a prestigious international AI competition for school students, is happening right now. Kazakhstan is represented by two teams this year!
The team contest begins in one hour. Students will develop logic for GalBot, an autonomous robot that they must program and test in a simulated environment.
The top 10 teams from the qualification round will advance and work with a real GalBot robot.
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Let's cheer for our teams!
The conference featured work by our compatriots and community residents. These papers expand the research foundation for building and evaluating LLMs in low-resource languages, with a particular focus on Kazakh:
This is a landmark moment for Kazakhstan's entire AI community. Congratulations to the authors on reaching the global stage—we look forward to their next achievements!
IOAI is the leading AI competition for school students. This year, Kazakhstan will be represented by two teams and eight talented students: Sultanbi Issatay, Batyr Yerdenov, Talim Aushakhman, Dauzhan Beketov, Abu Kanabek, Zhanibek Kassymkan, Timur Shakurov, and Sultanbek Sary.
This is our first time at the olympiad, but we believe in our students. We wish them success!
