Aleksey Tikhonov (aka altsoph)

About

This is a personal site of Aleksey Tikhonov aka altsoph.

I am Head of Research at Inworld.AI. My current research interests include NLP, narrative generation, multimodal networks, and graph theory. I am the author/co-author of 50+ papers on these and other topics, including full-paper publications on ICML, NeurIPS, AAAI, EMNLP, ACL, LREC, ICCC, SIGBOVIK. Check my publications page or my Google Scholar profile for more details.

I am ex-Yandex; in the past, I used to be a CTO, Chief Data Analyst, a system architect, and an e-zine columnist.

I am also an author/co-author of various ML-Art projects, including:

• Humor Mechanics -- human-level humor generation (ICCC 2024).
• Latent Spaces -- navigable 3D worlds generation using the combination of neural networks and geometric transformations (Machine Learning for Creativity @ NeurIPS 2023).
• Freaking Architecture -- a kaleidoscopic approach to unsupervised architectural content generation.
• Text2pixelart -- demoscene generation in the age of neural networks (Artwork Spotlight Award at Machine Learning for Creativity @ NeurIPS 2021).
• Paranoid Transformer -- handwritten diary of a mad robot, published as a book (THE NEW SIGHT award from DEAD ALIVE magazine, ICCC 2020, Future Internet 2020).
• Neurona and Neural Defence -- neuro-generated tributes to famous punk groups of the 90s (Creativity Workshop Art Gallery @ NeurIPS 2017).
• and many more; check my projects page or read my blog on Medium or substack.

  Feel free to reach me via contacts.