Michele Papucci ⚡️
Hey there 👋
I'm Michele Papucci
PhD Student in Natural Language Processing
I am a PhD Student in Computer Science founded by the Computer Science Department of the University of Pisa. I work at the ItaliaNLP Lab within Computational Linguistics Institute of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Pisa. My research interests lie in Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on Controlled Text Generation and Interpretability.
Follow Me on BlueSky!
Latest from blog
Paper Accepted at ECML PKDD 2026

Paper Accepted at ECML PKDD 2026
Papers

Our paper "What Intermediate Layers Know: Detecting Jailbreaks from Entropy Dynamics" has been accepted at ECML PKDD 2026 in Naples! A preprint is already available on arXiv. We show that how a model's predictive entropy evolves across its intermediate layers reveals jailbreak attempts, with no training required.
Paper Accepted at READIxTSAR@LREC2026

Paper Accepted at READIxTSAR@LREC2026
Papers

My latest paper "Lexical Conditioning of Model's Distribution through Uncertainty-gated Soft-Mixing of Probabilities" has been accepted at READIxTSAR workshop at LREC2026 in Palma de Mallorca!
Paper Accepted at LREC2026

Paper Accepted at LREC2026
Papers

My latest paper "Controllable Sentence Simplification in Italian: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models on Automatically Generated Resources" has been accepted at LREC2026 in Palma de Mallorca!
Personal Projects
Photo by Ljungblom on Freeimages.com

My Study Notes
Project

My published Obsidian Vault containing all my notes about NLP and other personal study subjects.