Daniel Scalena
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Daniel Scalena
@daniel_sc4
PhDing @unimib 🇮🇹 & @GroNlp 🇳🇱, interpretability et similia





📢 New paper: Applied interpretability 🤝 MT personalization! We steer LLM generations to mimic human translator styles on literary novels in 7 languages. 📚 SAE steering can beat few-shot prompting, leading to better personalization while maintaining quality. 🧵1/

📢 New paper: Applied interpretability 🤝 MT personalization! We steer LLM generations to mimic human translator styles on literary novels in 7 languages. 📚 SAE steering can beat few-shot prompting, leading to better personalization while maintaining quality. 🧵1/


announcement: I will be founding a new company with @thelokasiffers and @EmanueleRodola. it seems very clear to us that we're on the verge of completely re-imagining many of the institutions humans have consolidated across history. one of these is the way we do, interpret, review and utilize science. we will be laying the foundations to build a breakthrough factory, and will approach the problem from a research-heavy perspective, while at the same time offering a product we hope many of you will use soon. crucially, we will do this in Europe, starting from Rome. over the next few weeks we will bring together a small number of angels to support our already well underway efforts, before making both our product and research available to the public. in the near future, we will also be expanding the team, with the specific purpose of building the single most talent-dense company in this space. if automating research taste sounds like an inevitable challenge, if you can feel that the current way we're doing science will change, if you think we don't have enough frontier labs in Europe, please reach out to any of us in DMs.






How can we make reasoning models more efficient without sacrificing performance? Introducing EAGER, our new entropy-aware generation method, saving compute by up to 65% while lifting Pass@k by up to 37% on benchmarks like AIME.



This Friday NEMI 2025 is at Northeastern in Boston, 8 talks, 24 roundtables, 90 posters; 200+ attendees. Thanks to @GoodfireAI for sponsoring! nemiconf.github.io/summer25/ If you can't make it in person, the livestream will be here: youtube.com/live/4BJBisHk1…









