Francesco La Rosa

Final-year AI & CS at Edinburgh. I build tools and study language models.

Current Focus

Dialogia

LLM tutors are short-term and planless. This one tracks what you know and guides you with adaptive learning plans. This is my thesis project: giving users control over their learning model.

Bayesian mastery tracking with editable learner model
Auto-generated learning plans users can customize
15+ specialized tutor tools, web search, multi-model comparison

More Work

All projects

Syntactic Arrow of Time

Research

Forward-trained LLMs outperform backward ones. Is the asymmetry from grammar or meaning? Tested by training on POS tags only.

PythonPyTorch

Sampler-Bench

Tool

Wanted to understand how sampling strategies affect generation quality. Built a benchmark to find out.

PythonNext.jsTailwind v4

What Happened Today

Product

News is noisy and biased. This generates a neutral daily summary in three languages.

Next.jsTailwind v4

VoiceFlow

Tool

Offline speech-to-text for macOS. Hold a hotkey, speak, release -- text appears wherever your cursor is.

TauriReactTypeScript+2