Ahmet Erdem Pamuk

hi im ahmet!!!

member of technical staff, freya (yc s25), high school senior in ankara.
ahmeterdempmk@gmail.com, ahmet@pamuk.si

right now i'm a member of technical staff at freya (yc s25), where i work on speech: recognition, synthesis, and the pipelines that ship them. i led freyatts, the first turkish tts model trained from scratch, and r&d for adam & eve (#1 on audiorealismbench).

prior to this, i was a research engineer at motionshark and co-founded piyonist, an ai chess coach. outside of work, i'm a high school senior in ankara.

the question i think about most: what should i be doing right now to build the next frontier lab? if you have an opinion, email me.

all eight papers below were written instead of homework. deliberately.

ahmet standing next to the ieee qai 2025 banner in naples
naples, november 2025. ieee qai, first conference, first oral. the banner won the height contest.
ahmet, smiling, in front of a window
me, 2026. (yes, this is the good photo.)
a younger ahmet riding a horse in a field
at üstünde ben, belli ki uzun zaman önce.
papers
  1. A Ceiling on Query-Independent Data AttributionPamuk A.E.NeurIPS 2026, Third Workshop on Attributing Model Behavior at Scale (ATTRIB)
  2. When Does Cache-Aware Context Assembly Pay? A Latency and Quality Frontier for Agent Memory OrderingPamuk A.E.NeurIPS 2026, AgenticOS Workshop, poster
  3. Beyond Grid Artifacts: Periphery Targeted Landmarks for ALT SearchGüzeller H.T., Pamuk A.E.IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) 2026, full paper
  4. FreyaTTS: A Compact Tokenizer-Free Non-Autoregressive Flow-Matching Model for Turkish Speech SynthesisPamuk A.E., Yentür Ö., Bayrak A.T., Öztürk Y.A.S., Yavuz M.arXiv:2607.09530, 2026
  5. ansatzu: Automated Variational Quantum Circuit Design and Optimization with Shot-Aware Hyperparameter SearchPamuk A.E., Yurtseven E.IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE) 2026, 4th International Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning: From Research to Practice
  6. QDPO: Quantum-Decoupled Policy Optimization for Stable Multi-Reward Reinforcement LearningPamuk A.E.IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI) 2026, QNRL workshop
  7. Superpositional Gradient Descent: Harnessing Quantum Principles for Model TrainingPamuk A.E.*, Ozdemir E.K.*, Kocabay S.T.IEEE International Conference on Quantum Artificial Intelligence (QAI) 2025, oral
  8. EchoLLaMA: 3D-to-Speech with Multimodal AIPamuk A.E., Kocabay S.T., Ozdemir E.K.Preprints.org, 2025
some other things
  • member of team türkiye at the european olympiad in artificial intelligence 2026.
  • silver medal, kaggle ai mathematical olympiad 2026 (rank 54 of 4138).
  • 1st place, istinye university × evideep datamedx hackathon 2026 (and 2nd place the year before).
  • 1st place in the kaggle stage and 3rd overall, trendyol × teknofest 2026 e-commerce hackathon.
  • reviewer for the fogen workshop at icml 2026, the delta workshop at iclr 2026, and the attrib workshop at neurips 2026.
  • board member of the kaggle türkiye community (2,000+ people) in 2025.
  • teknofest 2025 finalist three times over: ai in healthcare, ai in aviation, e-commerce.
a longer log of things that happened, newest first
  • autumn 2026 two papers accepted at neurips 2026 workshops: attrib and agenticos.
  • sep 2026 periphery targeted landmarks for alt search accepted as a full paper at ictai 2026.
  • jul 2026 freyatts goes up on arxiv.
  • jun 2026 joined freya (yc s25) as a member of technical staff.
  • may 2026 reviewed for the fogen workshop at icml 2026.
  • apr 2026 qdpo accepted at the qnrl workshop, ieee wcci 2026. accepted to the cambridge future scholar programme.
  • mar 2026 accepted to the algoverse ai research program.
  • feb 2026 reviewed for the delta workshop at iclr 2026.
  • jan 2026 accepted to launchx in san diego.
  • nov 2025 superpositional gradient descent, oral at ieee qai 2025, naples.
  • sep 2025 teknofest finalist in ai in healthcare, ai in aviation, and e-commerce. started at mustafa hakan güvençer science high school.
  • jul 2025 echollama, my first preprint.
  • may 2025 2nd place at the datamedx hackathon.
  • apr 2025 research engineer at motionshark.
  • feb 2025 research engineer intern at motionshark. co-founded piyonist.
  • jan 2025 board member, kaggle türkiye community.
  • nov 2024 ai researcher at arf, benchmarking llms for education.
  • oct 2024 teknofest e-commerce hackathon finalist.
  • jul 2024 deneyap technology studios summer school.
  • jun 2024 software engineering intern at sobuman, building partogo.
  • sep 2023 started high school in ankara.

i love people and write back. send me an email at ahmeterdempmk@gmail.com or ahmet@pamuk.si (or a dm on x). office hours: whenever the email arrives.