Nutcracker Studio

From Content Creation to AI Alignment Research
—— Bridging creative expertise with information-theoretic approaches to AI quality.

AI Research

We study Creative Quality Alignment (CQA) — using information theory to formalize what makes creative work "good" and to align AI systems accordingly. Our research program comprises a 3+1 paper series: one theoretical foundation, one experimental validation, one evaluation benchmark, and one expert-knowledge extraction paradigm.

Calibrated Surprise: An Information-Theoretic Account of Creative Quality Preprint
Uses Shannon's mutual information to prove that full-dimensional accuracy and mediocrity are mutually exclusive.
[arXiv]
Creative Quality Alignment: Expert Tacit Knowledge Transfer via Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning In Preparation
Empirical validation of the Calibrated Surprise framework via LLM fine-tuning experiments.
QUIET: Quality Understanding via Implicit Evaluation Testing In Preparation
A professional evaluation benchmark for creative quality alignment.
BC Protocol: Structured Dual-Expert Dialogue for Eliciting High-Quality Chain-of-Thought Post-Training Data In Preparation
A structured dialogue paradigm for eliciting latent expert reasoning chains.
AI Alignment Creative Quality Information Theory Chain-of-Thought Expert Knowledge Extraction

Selected Works

*A popular science animation about China's Long March 7 rocket.*

Popular Science Books

The Efficient Study Handbook for Kids
The Efficient Study Handbook for Kids (Comic Edition)
Posts & Telecom Press

Crime & Mystery

She and She, with Her
She and She, with Her
By Jing Tianze | Jiangsu Phoenix Literature & Art Publishing
Trending
#1 Trending — WeChat Reading Top 50
Rising
#2 Rising — WeChat Reading Top 50
Fiction
#6 Fiction — WeChat Reading Top 50
*WeChat Reading (微信读书) is China's leading premium digital reading platform with over 200 million registered users, comparable to Kindle + Goodreads in the Western market.*

About Us

Beijing Bread Media Technology Co., Ltd. (Nutcracker Studio) was founded as a content creation company, producing popular science videos, illustrated books, and fiction. Our crime thriller Her, Her, and Her reached #1 on WeChat Reading's Trending chart upon release.

In 2026, building on our deep domain expertise in creative quality, we pivoted to AI alignment research. We are developing Creative Quality Alignment (CQA) — an information-theoretic framework for formalizing and measuring creative quality in AI-generated content.

Contact

📧 Bo@breadmedia.com