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IOAI 2025 results

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:

• The Competitive Programming Federation, CPFED, for its enormous organizational contribution
• DSML.KZ volunteers who helped organize the qualification and training

DSML Reading Club Meeting #6

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.

• Saturday, August 9, 11:00 Kazakhstan time
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• Google Meet
• Speaker: James Yamazaki
• Host: Yelaman Abdullin

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan at IOAI 2025!

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 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2025, took place in Vienna from July 27 to August 1. It is one of the most prestigious conferences in NLP and AI!

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:

• Instruction Tuning on Public Government and Cultural Data for Low-Resource Language: a Case Study in Kazakh — Nurkhan Laiyk, Daniil Orel, Maiya Goloburda
• KazMMLU: Evaluating Language Models on Kazakh, Russian, and Regional Knowledge of Kazakhstan — Mukhammed Togmanov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Diana Turmakhan, Maiya Goloburda, Bekassyl Syzdykov, Nurkhan Laiyk
• Qorgau: Evaluating LLM Safety in Kazakh-Russian Bilingual Contexts — Maiya Goloburda, Nurkhan Laiyk, Diana Turmakhan, Mukhammed Togmanov, Askhat Sametov, Nurdaulet Mukhituly, Daniil Orel
• CoDet-M4: Detecting Machine-Generated Code in Multi-Lingual, Multi-Generator and Multi-Domain Settings — Daniil Orel
• RECALL: Library-Like Behavior In Language Models is Enhanced by Self-Referencing Causal Cycles — Zangir Iklassov

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!