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Zhemal Khamidun

Hamidun News editorial desk led by Editor-in-Chief Zhemal Khamidun (CPO of AlpinaGPT). Daily curation across 50+ global AI labs, research feeds, and industry reports in 6 languages.

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Stroop Test Shows VLMs Read the Text in an Image Before They See the Color
Research·arXiv cs.CV

Stroop Test Shows VLMs Read the Text in an Image Before They See the Color

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
ForcingBooster Halves Denoising Steps in Autoregressive Video Generation
Research

ForcingBooster Halves Denoising Steps in Autoregressive Video Generation

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MemReg Outperforms Pairwise Methods and SLAM in LiDAR Point Cloud Registration
Robotics

MemReg Outperforms Pairwise Methods and SLAM in LiDAR Point Cloud Registration

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Video-Language Models Confuse Car Maneuvers: LoRA and Probes Fix the Error
Robotics

Video-Language Models Confuse Car Maneuvers: LoRA and Probes Fix the Error

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MIRAGE anchors video-based 3D reconstruction to LiDAR and beats COLMAP on three datasets
Robotics·arXiv cs.CV

MIRAGE anchors video-based 3D reconstruction to LiDAR and beats COLMAP on three datasets

MIRAGE pairs feed-forward 3D reconstruction from video with LiDAR and IMU data for metric scale, less drift and Gaussian scenes. Tested on three datasets.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
OMNI: One Compact Encoder Absorbs the Knowledge of 10 Models for Pathology
Medicine·arXiv cs.CV

OMNI: One Compact Encoder Absorbs the Knowledge of 10 Models for Pathology

Researchers made multi-teacher distillation scale: OMNI students are up to 10x more efficient than their teachers and match them on 39 digital pathology tasks.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
TerraAgent checks whether the AI actually looks at the image: hallucinations drop from 17.1% to 9.8%
Research·arXiv cs.CV

TerraAgent checks whether the AI actually looks at the image: hallucinations drop from 17.1% to 9.8%

A multi-agent wrapper for satellite VQA nearly halved answers given "from memory": from 46.2% to 21.7%. No fine-tuning needed; the cost is 2.6 passes of the base…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
AVA improves multimodal ICL accuracy by 1.7 points without any training
Research·arXiv cs.CV

AVA improves multimodal ICL accuracy by 1.7 points without any training

A preprint proposes AVA, a three-stage pipeline that cleans up the examples in a frozen VLM's prompt. It gains +1.7 points on average across five benchmarks, with…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
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01Coral-KV Compresses Video Model KV-Cache by 37–48% and Lifts PSNR by Up to 4.95 dBOct 12, 2026·2 min02Black Lake: Chinese Factories Skip Digitization and Go Straight to AI AgentsOct 12, 2026·2 min03T. Rowe Price: 55% of Hong Kong Residents Expect AI to Hit Their Retirement, but Only One in Five Feels ReadyOct 12, 2026·2 min04Genetic Optimizer Cuts Aerosol Sensor Placement Time in the UK by 60%Oct 12, 2026·2 min05Kronecker Product Attention Compresses the KV-Cache Up to 10x and Matches MLA on QualityOct 12, 2026·2 min
TimesFM 3.0 Cuts University Building Energy Forecast Error by 43%
Research·arXiv cs.LG

TimesFM 3.0 Cuts University Building Energy Forecast Error by 43%

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Wasserstein BaryBooster Turns Diffusion Realism into Event Forecast Accuracy
Research·arXiv cs.LG

Wasserstein BaryBooster Turns Diffusion Realism into Event Forecast Accuracy

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
DiffusionART speeds up RL fine-tuning of video models 12x, with no EMA tuning
LLM·arXiv cs.LG

DiffusionART speeds up RL fine-tuning of video models 12x, with no EMA tuning

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
A Physical Transformer Built Entirely From Transistors Learns In-Context Learning in Simulation
Research·arXiv cs.LG

A Physical Transformer Built Entirely From Transistors Learns In-Context Learning in Simulation

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Theory Shows Masked Diffusion on Transformers Learns from Õ(LK/ε) Samples
Research·arXiv cs.LG

Theory Shows Masked Diffusion on Transformers Learns from Õ(LK/ε) Samples

A new arXiv paper gives end-to-end guarantees for masked diffusion models: sample complexity scales as Õ(L·K_par/ε), not exponentially as V^L in sequence length.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
SAZO speeds up LLM fine-tuning without backprop: up to 6× fewer queries to reach the same loss
Research·arXiv cs.LG

SAZO speeds up LLM fine-tuning without backprop: up to 6× fewer queries to reach the same loss

A new zeroth-order method, SAZO, learns to tell informative training examples from uninformative ones and reaches the same loss with up to 6× fewer queries than…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Holomorphic Neural Networks With Singular Functions Beat All Methods on Laplace Benchmarks
Research·arXiv cs.LG

Holomorphic Neural Networks With Singular Functions Beat All Methods on Laplace Benchmarks

A new architecture satisfies the Laplace equation by construction and captures corner singularities. On a CdZnTe detector, it is 1.7–2.1 times more accurate than the closest competitor.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Cox Regression Learns From Truncated Data Orders of Magnitude Faster Than EM
Research·arXiv cs.LG

Cox Regression Learns From Truncated Data Orders of Magnitude Faster Than EM

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
CacheScope speeds up diffusion models by up to 3.57x and cuts LPIPS by 70%
Research·arXiv cs.LG

CacheScope speeds up diffusion models by up to 3.57x and cuts LPIPS by 70%

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
AI Error in Estimating Hidden Solar Generation Rises from 0.104 to 0.185 kW
Research·arXiv cs.LG

AI Error in Estimating Hidden Solar Generation Rises from 0.104 to 0.185 kW

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
CircuitTree assembles 39 HuBERT phoneme circuits into a syllable transcriber with 64.8% accuracy
Research·arXiv cs.LG

CircuitTree assembles 39 HuBERT phoneme circuits into a syllable transcriber with 64.8% accuracy

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
ResonatorLM Taught to Read Memory by Token: Perplexity at 1024 Drops from 12.81 to 3.76
Research·arXiv cs.LG

ResonatorLM Taught to Read Memory by Token: Perplexity at 1024 Drops from 12.81 to 3.76

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Kairos: a byte-level model for all modalities converges on 440 bytes
Research

Kairos: a byte-level model for all modalities converges on 440 bytes

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Open LLMs Explain Satire More Cheaply Than Frontier Models, but Handle Australian Satire Worse Than American
Research

Open LLMs Explain Satire More Cheaply Than Frontier Models, but Handle Australian Satire Worse Than American

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
COFFEQA Adds 8.77 EM on TriviaQA to Few-Shot Distillation Using Counterfactuals
Research

COFFEQA Adds 8.77 EM on TriviaQA to Few-Shot Distillation Using Counterfactuals

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MADS Trains Dialog Agents Not to Break: 1,095 Conversations, 66% With "Bad" Scenarios
Research·arXiv cs.CL

MADS Trains Dialog Agents Not to Break: 1,095 Conversations, 66% With "Bad" Scenarios

MADS generates synthetic dialogs with toxic and unconstructive users. The benchmark covers 6 domains, 55 personas, 1095 conversations, and 66% of scenarios carry a…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
U4RASD Takes 1st Place at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: 94.06 micro-F1 on Arabic
Research·arXiv cs.CL

U4RASD Takes 1st Place at KnowledgeGraphEval-2026: 94.06 micro-F1 on Arabic

An ensemble of Yehia, Qwen3.5 and an encoder with typed markers won the Arabic relation extraction subtask: micro-F1 of 94.06 across 40 relation types.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min