Researchers often provide raw data for analysis as ZIP files. An example includes Fitness Tracker Trends Analysis on Kaggle, where CSV data was provided in a ZIP format and then unzipped for loading into RStudio.
Developers often share alpha-version libraries as ZIP files for early testing. For example, Apache PDFBox 3.0 alpha users have documented performance improvements in "alpha loading" documents from the file system compared to older versions.
If you are looking for a specific research paper involving "Alpha" and file analysis, you might be interested in which describes a framework for detecting new malware by analyzing ASM language patterns.