ZK
Editor-in-Chief · CPO of AlpinaGPT

Zhemal Khamidun

Head of AI at Alpina Digital, CPO of AlpinaGPT (~30-person engineering & AI team). Founder of Vibe Academy & Hamidun Consulting, author of the AI channel «Готовим ИИшницу» (@jemal_hamidun).

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Kairos: a byte-level model for all modalities converges on 440 bytes
Research·arXiv cs.LG

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

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

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
AXLE Method Primes Annotators' Own Experience Before Hate Speech Labeling: 104 People, 1,040 Ratings
Research·arXiv cs.CL

AXLE Method Primes Annotators' Own Experience Before Hate Speech Labeling: 104 People, 1,040 Ratings

AXLE, a new pre-annotation step, asks annotators to describe personal experience before rating toxic text. In a test with 104 people, agreement dropped and label…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
perturber: a service with 68 text perturbations tests LLM robustness
Research·arXiv cs.CL

perturber: a service with 68 text perturbations tests LLM robustness

Researchers have released perturber, a service and Python library that apply one meaning-preserving perturbation at a time from a catalog of 68 variants across 11…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
GeopoliticalQA: bge-m3 Beats Commercial Embeddings on 5 525 Report-Based Questions
Research·arXiv cs.CL

GeopoliticalQA: bge-m3 Beats Commercial Embeddings on 5 525 Report-Based Questions

A new benchmark tests RAG on 415 geopolitical reports and 5 525 questions: compact bge-m3 outperforms commercial APIs, while generation struggles with inference and…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
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01Qwen Picks What to Remember: Replay From a Frozen Model Reduces ForgettingOct 12, 2026·3 min02CLUE Builds an Event Ontology Without Experts in Three Steps: Embeddings, Clusters, NamesOct 12, 2026·2 min03AutoIndexer Teaches a Language Model to Edit Its Own Output with Three Types of EditsOct 12, 2026·2 min04OGPO Teaches VLA Models to Get Back on Track After a Failure, Without Online Fine-TuningOct 12, 2026·2 min05Seq-Drifting Generates Text in a Single Pass: Perplexity of 36.01 on LM1BOct 12, 2026·2 min
CToM teaches LLMs to predict user replies and lifts accuracy to 79.6%
Research·arXiv cs.AI

CToM teaches LLMs to predict user replies and lifts accuracy to 79.6%

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
GeoSpatialBench Tests MLLMs on 28 Types of Spatial Relations Across Six Cities
Robotics·arXiv cs.AI

GeoSpatialBench Tests MLLMs on 28 Types of Spatial Relations Across Six Cities

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
RGR Protects LLMs from Skill Loss in Self-Distillation by Preserving Representation Geometry
Research·arXiv cs.AI

RGR Protects LLMs from Skill Loss in Self-Distillation by Preserving Representation Geometry

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Researchers Propose a 3-Criterion Formula for Creativity and Test It on Chess and Picasso
Research·arXiv cs.AI

Researchers Propose a 3-Criterion Formula for Creativity and Test It on Chess and Picasso

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Neural Networks Are More Modular Than Their Neurons Suggest: Three Levels of Testing
Research·arXiv cs.AI

Neural Networks Are More Modular Than Their Neurons Suggest: Three Levels of Testing

A new arXiv paper proposes three nested levels of modularity and finds that networks without neuron-level modules often have clear functional modules in subspaces.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
New Method Aligns Encoders With 100–500 Pairs Instead of Millions
Research·arXiv cs.AI

New Method Aligns Encoders With 100–500 Pairs Instead of Millions

An arXiv paper aligns two independently trained encoders using 100–500 pairs via distilled optimal transport, beating baselines on Flickr30k, MS-COCO and ChEBI-20.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
LLM Pipeline Turns Datasheets into Knowledge Graphs with 98.8% Accuracy
Hardware·arXiv cs.AI

LLM Pipeline Turns Datasheets into Knowledge Graphs with 98.8% Accuracy

A new pipeline builds hierarchical graphs from datasheets: 98.8% faithful properties versus 76.1% for a single-pass LLM query. Tested on 20 documents.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
EvoSyn: Multi-Agent Data Synthesis Lifts Task Success by 13.3 Points
Research·arXiv cs.AI

EvoSyn: Multi-Agent Data Synthesis Lifts Task Success by 13.3 Points

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
EliteTable Makes LLMs Evolve Controller Code: Gains in 6 of 6 Tasks
LLM·arXiv cs.AI

EliteTable Makes LLMs Evolve Controller Code: Gains in 6 of 6 Tasks

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MCTS Loses to Random Restarts by 2.88% in DAG Scheduling at Equal Budget
Research·arXiv cs.AI

MCTS Loses to Random Restarts by 2.88% in DAG Scheduling at Equal Budget

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
arXiv paper finds five flaws in XAI faithfulness metrics
Research·arXiv cs.AI

arXiv paper finds five flaws in XAI faithfulness metrics

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
DBS CEO Tan Su Shan: Market Is Repricing the Risks of Financing the AI Buildout
Business·Bloomberg Tech

DBS CEO Tan Su Shan: Market Is Repricing the Risks of Financing the AI Buildout

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres Seeks to Raise Its Loan to $6.6 Billion
Business

Bain Capital's Bridge Data Centres Seeks to Raise Its Loan to $6.6 Billion

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Firmus Grid IPO Failure Wipes More Than $699 Million Off Maas Group's Market Value
Business

Firmus Grid IPO Failure Wipes More Than $699 Million Off Maas Group's Market Value

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Dongshan Precision Prepares $2–3 Billion Hong Kong Listing
Business

Dongshan Precision Prepares $2–3 Billion Hong Kong Listing

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Zebra3D speeds up 3D reconstruction by up to 7.1× on 1024 frames without training from scratch
Robotics·arXiv cs.CV

Zebra3D speeds up 3D reconstruction by up to 7.1× on 1024 frames without training from scratch

Zebra3D's hybrid attention speeds up off-the-shelf VGGT, HunyuanWorld-Mirror and π³ by up to 7.1× on 1024 views. At 94% sparsity, VGGT accuracy drops by only 1.1 pp.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
SynAct Teaches LLM Agents to Ask for Help Where It Changes the Outcome: +11.7 pp
LLM·arXiv cs.LG

SynAct Teaches LLM Agents to Ask for Help Where It Changes the Outcome: +11.7 pp

SynAct spends expert attention on individual agent decisions, not whole tasks, and raises accuracy by an average of 11.7 pp in 16 of 16 test configurations.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min