Vladimir Baranov

I teach machines
to sleep

Researching biologically-inspired sleep cycles in large language models. A mechanism that lets models consolidate new knowledge directly into weights, the way biological memory separates encoding from consolidation. I come to this from 12 years of building production systems, which gives me a practitioner's instinct for what learning architectures need to do in the real world.

Sleep-Cycle Continuous Learning in LLMs

2025 – present

An LLM architecture that implements biologically-inspired sleep cycles for continuous learning. The system separates experience accumulation (wake) from weight consolidation (sleep), allowing the model to learn from direct user interaction without catastrophic forgetting.

Drawing on memory consolidation literature, including complementary learning systems theory and hippocampal replay. The sleep phase replays and distills new experiences into stable long-term representations. End-to-end implementation: data pipeline, training loop modifications, evaluation harness.

Exploring applications in personalization, domain adaptation, and lifelong learning for deployed models.

Continuous Learning Memory Consolidation CLS Theory Weight Adaptation

12 years of production software

Founded and ran Tipasoft, a development agency delivering web, mobile, and desktop applications across a dozen industries. Full-stack engineering: architected systems from scratch and integrated into complex existing codebases. Comfortable across frontend, backend, mobile, and infrastructure.

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Coca-Cola Morgan Stanley KPMG BMW Honda Toyota Mars Wrigley Rogers Sportsnet Concordia University
Python TypeScript React Node.js Mobile Desktop Systems Architecture

Why breadth matters for AI research

The pattern of entering unfamiliar domains, building accurate mental models quickly, and shipping. It's the same skill continuous learning systems need to acquire.

Music Production

Co-wrote, recorded, mixed, and mastered electronic music. Worked with Grammy-winning producers. Managed live performances at Canada's largest venue (Rogers Centre). Nominated for Toronto Independent Music Awards. Trained intuition for signal processing, temporal patterns, and iterative creative refinement.

Consumer Products & Education

Created a coffee brand and children's robotics kits. Teaches kids robotics. Experience designing physical and digital systems, and thinking about how non-experts learn.

Enterprise Across Industries

Clients across finance, automotive, CPG, media, and education. Each required rapidly building domain models and translating between technical and non-technical contexts.

University of Waterloo York University