Lucia Domenichelli
PhD student in AI @ UniPi.
I use this site as a research notebook and small projects to have fun.
A bit more context
Welcome to my study space. I’m Lucia, a second-year PhD student in AI at UniPi. My main research interest is Interpretability and Representation learning in NLP.
Outside research, I spend my time learning languages, making music, reading, and bouldering 🧗. These hobbies take up a lot of my attention, so please be patient if other things move a little more slowly. I keep these notes personal and practical: mostly for myself, but hopefully useful to others too.
Publications
From Weights to Representations: How Pre-Training Data Order Shapes Language Models
CLiC-it 2026 · Best Student Paper Award
On the impact of pretraining data ordering in transformer encoder- and decoder-only language models
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2026
The Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models: An In-depth Linguistic Analysis
CLiC-it 2025
From Human Reading to NLM Understanding: Evaluating the Role of Eye-Tracking Data in Encoder-Based Models
ACL 2025
News
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Milestone
I completed my second-year PhD review.
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Seminar
I gave the seminar “From Global to Local: Intrinsic Dimensionality as a Lens on Language Model Representation” as part of Officine ItaliaNLP.
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Award
At CLiC-it 2026 in Palermo, our paper “From Weights to Representations” won the Best Student Paper Award.
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Summer school
In Gothenburg for the Analytical Connectionism Summer School (17–28 August). Had a great time there, will always remember the people I met ;)
View photo · Gothenburg
Gothenburg, August 2026. -
Oral presentation
Oral presentation of “Linguistic Profiling of Transformer Embedding Geometry” at CoNLL 2026, San Diego. There I learned my English was trash :))
View photo · San Diego
San Diego, July 2026. -
Workshop
Attended REST-CL 2026.
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Update
Visiting student at UPF’s COLT group, Barcelona.
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Milestone
Completed my first-year PhD report.
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Talk
Poster at “Lectures on Computational Linguistics”, Milan.