Noonosh Is
Founder
Research direction
Frontier research lab · Tashkent
Research that moves computing forward, from Central Asia.
OY Lab is a frontier research lab in Tashkent. We study how machines learn, compute and reason, and we build the open models, tools and people that Central Asia needs to take part in that work.
Tonight
- Foundedplaceholder
- 2024
- Researchers
- 14
- Papers
- 9
- Open releases
- 6
- Machine learning
- Mashinaviy oʼrganish
- Машинное обучение
- Open models
- Ochiq modellar
- Открытые модели
- Scientific computing
- Ilmiy hisoblash
- Научные вычисления
- Turkic languages
- Turkiy tillar
- Тюркские языки
- Efficient compute
- Samarali hisoblash
- Эффективные вычисления
Why we exist
A region of eighty million people should not only consume the frontier of computing. It should help define it.
- 01
Do frontier-level work from Tashkent
Research that is judged by the same reviewers, benchmarks and peers as anywhere else, and that holds up.
- 02
Make computing speak our languages
Uzbek, Karakalpak and the wider Turkic family are low-resource today. We build the data, models and tools that change that.
- 03
Grow the people, not just the papers
Every project trains researchers and engineers who stay in the region and start the next thing.
- 04
Publish and release in the open
Papers, weights, code and datasets are released so that others can check our work and build on it.
Research
Four questions we keep returning to.
Each area is small enough to own and large enough to matter. The borders between them are deliberately porous.
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Open models for Turkic languages
Pretraining, tokenization and evaluation for Uzbek, Karakalpak and their neighbours, released with weights and data.
02
Scientific computing
Numerical methods and learned surrogates for physics, climate and materials problems that matter locally.
03
Efficient systems
Training and serving on the hardware we actually have: quantization, scheduling and memory-aware kernels.
04
Applied research in the field
Agriculture, water, energy and health, in partnership with the people who run them. Deployed, measured, revised.
How we work
Research in phases.
Oy means moon. Every project follows the same cycle, and we try to be honest about which phase we are in.
New moon
Waxing
Full moon
Waning
- 01New moon
Question
A problem worth a year. We write the question, the baseline and the way we will know we were wrong.
- 02Waxing
Experiment
Small, fast, falsifiable runs. Negative results are logged with the same care as positive ones.
- 03Full moon
Publish
Paper, weights, code and data go out together. Reviewers and the community get everything they need to reproduce it.
- 04Waning
Deploy and reflect
The work meets real users. What breaks becomes the next question, and the cycle starts again.
Team
The people behind the work.
Researchers and engineers based in Tashkent, with collaborators across Central Asia and beyond.
Join
Work with us.
We hire slowly and for the long run. If you want to do serious research from Tashkent, write to us.
Open roles
- 01Research scientist
- 02Machine learning engineer
- 03Research intern