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Akoss Vidor

Long-tenured contributor

Based in Budapest
Node-cell babbage-14
ORCID 0000-0408-0573-2510

Research

Akoss is the contributor primarily responsible for ab-trace, the content-addressed execution-trace store that every substrate-hosted agent emits to and every paired interpretability cell reads from. The trace format is now on v3 and Akoss has shepherded all three versions through the cross-axis review pool.

He is unusual at the lab in not having a Ph.D. — like Pranav Iyer, he came to research from a long career in production systems. The ab-trace work bears the marks of that: deliberate, conservative, with extensive change logs and a near-paranoid attitude toward backward compatibility.

Akoss is based in Budapest. He is one of the contributors who works closely with the EU AI Office advisory pool on a personal basis, primarily on the question of what a trace standard should look like across multiple labs.

Background

M.Sc. computer science, Budapest University of Technology, 2013. Software engineer before pivoting to research in 2019.

Prior to alphabell: a Budapest-based fintech; Wayfarer Institute; Hyperion Cognitive Lab.

Selected publications

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Recent talks

  • Trace stores — what survives a year, SOSP 2025
  • The story of the v3 trace format, FOSDEM 2024
Working with

Akoss is currently part of node-cell babbage-14, working under the Agentic engineering research axis. The cell is open to substantive correspondence from researchers working on adjacent problems; route requests through babbage-14@alphabell.com or directly to Akoss at akoss-vidor@alphabell.com.