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Hello, I'm Kirill Fedyanin.

Hope you are doing good, dear stranger.

I'm currently an ML research engineer, training models for self-driving cars (motion planner!) and interested in anything related to physical AI. I would also love to randomly chat about art, self-organizing alife forms, rogue travelling, improvisation plays or really anything else.

If any of it rings a bell, you can reach me at kirill.fedyanin[at]gmail.com.

Below is some of my not very organized work.

# Yeah, science
I'm something of a scientist myself. I've spent good years doing research, check out the papers.
  • Dropout strikes back -- how to find out your favorite neural network is not telling you the truth
  • Uncertainty in open set -- suppose you train a NN to distinguish between your favorite cows. Can we tell whether it is confident or not?
  • Linking people -- how to find out about invisible connections between people. Is it detective work, gossip or ML research? Let's find out
  • Mind-reading for mice -- can you read the mind of a mammal? Not including teleporting or telekinesis (yet)
  • School problem difficulty -- would the task teach a kid anything or just make him suffer.
# Letting people compete in ML

I've designed some fun problems for the finals of the International Olympiad in AI . Check the problem from the 2026 edition. If you can score 50+, you'll be better than many live competitors.

My first memorable problem was about forcing diffusion network to always draw fire hydrants with a cow

# Foolish projects
I'm strangely attached to doing weird tech projects. So-not-2026, but here are some things I coded back then by hand. They are interactive, enjoy engaging.
  • Chipmunk run -- simple platformer to make the person work for their birthday gift. Surprisingly hard to make in one go
  • Moscow summer -- summer 2016 was notoriously rainy and weather varied a lot during the day. To help people we made a guide on how to choose clothes.
  • Karantining -- another useful guide on how to spend time when you are homelocked