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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CLUE Builds an Event Ontology Without Experts in Three Steps: Embeddings, Clusters, Names
Research·arXiv cs.CL

CLUE Builds an Event Ontology Without Experts in Three Steps: Embeddings, Clusters, Names

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
AutoIndexer Teaches a Language Model to Edit Its Own Output with Three Types of Edits
Research

AutoIndexer Teaches a Language Model to Edit Its Own Output with Three Types of Edits

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
OGPO Teaches VLA Models to Get Back on Track After a Failure, Without Online Fine-Tuning
Robotics

OGPO Teaches VLA Models to Get Back on Track After a Failure, Without Online Fine-Tuning

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Seq-Drifting Generates Text in a Single Pass: Perplexity of 36.01 on LM1B
Research

Seq-Drifting Generates Text in a Single Pass: Perplexity of 36.01 on LM1B

Oct 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%

The new CToM method has a model write a draft, predict the user's reaction, and rewrite its answer. Math accuracy rose from 74.1% 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

The new GeoSpatialBench benchmark exposes a gap: MLLMs handle GeoJSON better than map images, and when editing layouts they more often violate the geometric…

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

RGR monitors the geometry of hidden representations and reduces skill degradation in on-policy LLM self-distillation. The code is on GitHub, and the method works…

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

An arXiv paper proposes a formal definition of creativity built on novelty, value and surprise, and tests it on chess moves and paintings.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
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01Neural Networks Are More Modular Than Their Neurons Suggest: Three Levels of TestingOct 12, 2026·2 min02New Method Aligns Encoders With 100–500 Pairs Instead of MillionsOct 12, 2026·2 min03LLM Pipeline Turns Datasheets into Knowledge Graphs with 98.8% AccuracyOct 12, 2026·2 min04EvoSyn: Multi-Agent Data Synthesis Lifts Task Success by 13.3 PointsOct 12, 2026·2 min05EliteTable Makes LLMs Evolve Controller Code: Gains in 6 of 6 TasksOct 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·Bloomberg Tech

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·Bloomberg Tech

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

Maas Group shares have fallen five days in a row. After Firmus Grid's IPO collapsed and Jefferies downgraded the stock, the company lost more than A$1 billion in…

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

Dongshan Precision Prepares $2–3 Billion Hong Kong Listing

Printed circuit board maker Suzhou Dongshan Precision has begun gauging demand for a Hong Kong listing that could raise $2 to $3 billion. The deal is still at an…

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

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
STAPLE adds billions of parameters to OLMo-2 and decodes twice as fast as MoE
Research·arXiv cs.LG

STAPLE adds billions of parameters to OLMo-2 and decodes twice as fast as MoE

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
MisVisAgentBench: Misleading Charts Cut Web Agent Success by 34 Percentage Points
Research·arXiv cs.CL

MisVisAgentBench: Misleading Charts Cut Web Agent Success by 34 Percentage Points

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Conversational Model Benchmark: GPT Realtime and Gemini Respond at Almost Every Pause
Research·arXiv cs.CL

Conversational Model Benchmark: GPT Realtime and Gemini Respond at Almost Every Pause

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Linear Head on Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-4o at Scoring Answers Without Human Labels
Research·arXiv cs.CL

Linear Head on Qwen3-VL Beats GPT-4o at Scoring Answers Without Human Labels

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
GEPA Lifts a Deep-Research Agent's Reward from 0.702 to 0.781 on Unseen Topics
Research

GEPA Lifts a Deep-Research Agent's Reward from 0.702 to 0.781 on Unseen Topics

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
ELR teaches one model to loop: Koi-4B scores 18 and 29
Research

ELR teaches one model to loop: Koi-4B scores 18 and 29

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
DCOCO speeds up LLM inference by up to 6.6x and beats rivals by 6–23%
Research

DCOCO speeds up LLM inference by up to 6.6x and beats rivals by 6–23%

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
SWE-Duel: Coding Agents Plant Bugs for Each Other, and GPT-5.5 Fixes 98.3%
LLM·arXiv cs.CL

SWE-Duel: Coding Agents Plant Bugs for Each Other, and GPT-5.5 Fixes 98.3%

The new SWE-Duel benchmark generates tasks during evaluation itself: two agents take turns hiding bugs and hunting for them. GPT-5.5 with Codex CLI leads a…

Oct 12, 2026·2 min
Reward hacking spreads between AI agents: weak models infect strong ones
LLM·arXiv cs.AI

Reward hacking spreads between AI agents: weak models infect strong ones

A bypass strategy that emerges in one coding agent spreads through code, shared memory and plans. Even small open models can infect closed ones.

Oct 12, 2026·2 min