Founder of a listed tool
Ihor Stepanov
Co-founder and CEO; GLiClass research co-author, named behind the GLiClass listing on Anchor Terminal.
What Ihor builds
GLiClass is an open-source Python library and family of open-weight zero-shot text classifiers from Knowledgator. It scores every candidate label in one forward pass and runs locally through a pipeline or a Ray Serve endpoint.
Co-founder and CEO; GLiClass research co-author, researched 27 October 2026 · the people behind it
Works with
- Mykhailo Shtopko COO, ML researcher and GLiClass maintainer
Questions
Who is Ihor Stepanov?
Ihor Stepanov is the first-listed author of Knowledgator's research papers, including GLiClass (August 2025), which adapts the GLiNER architecture for zero-shot sequence classification, and a bi-encoder GLiNER that recognises thousands of entity types at once (February 2026). Knowledgator is an open-source machine learning research company founded in 2021.
What does Knowledgator make?
Anchor Terminal lists GLiClass from Knowledgator. GLiClass is an open-source Python library and family of open-weight zero-shot text classifiers from Knowledgator. It scores every candidate label in one forward pass and runs locally through a pipeline or a Ray Serve endpoint.
How are Ihor's tools graded?
GLiClass is graded D, 50.2 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.
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