Giovanni Monea

Cornell Tech · New York, NY

Giovanni Monea

Hey there! I'm Giovanni, a second-year Computer Science PhD student at Cornell, advised by Yoav Artzi. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a BSc in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano.

I'm fascinated by memory and planning in machine learning. I want to make models, currently large language models, fundamentally better at both: through new architectures, and by enabling continual, longer-horizon learning at deployment time.

I've been lucky to work with a number of amazing collaborators. I'm currently a research intern at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, working with Ramon Astudillo, and throughout my PhD I've also been closely mentored by Kianté Brantley. Earlier, I worked with Bob West at EPFL, and interned at Microsoft Research with Michel Galley and at Apple MLR with Edouard Grave.

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2026 The State-Prediction Separation Hypothesis Giovanni Monea, Nathan Godey, Kianté Brantley, Yoav Artzi Preprint 2025 Breadcrumbs Reasoning: Memory-Efficient Reasoning with Compression Beacons Giovanni Monea, Yair Feldman, Shankar Padmanabhan, Kianté Brantley, Yoav Artzi ER @ NeurIPS 2025 2025 LLMs Are In-Context Bandit Reinforcement Learners Giovanni Monea, Antoine Bosselut, Kianté Brantley, Yoav Artzi COLM 2025 2025 Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers Clément Dumas, Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, Robert West ACL 2025 2025 Controllable Context Sensitivity and the Knob Behind It Julian Minder, Kevin Du, Niklas Stoehr, Giovanni Monea, Chris Wendler, Robert West, Ryan Cotterell ICLR 2025 2024 How Do Llamas Process Multilingual Text? A Latent Exploration through Activation Patching Clément Dumas, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, Robert West, Chris Wendler MI @ ICML 2024 2024 A Glitch in the Matrix? Locating and Detecting Language Model Grounding with Fakepedia Giovanni Monea, Maxime Peyrard, Martin Josifoski, Vishrav Chaudhary, Jason Eisner, Emre Kıcıman, Hamid Palangi, Barun Patra, Robert West ACL 2024 2024 Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers Chris Wendler*, Veniamin Veselovsky*, Giovanni Monea*, Robert West* ACL 2024★ Outstanding Paper Award 2023 PaSS: Parallel Speculative Sampling Giovanni Monea, Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave ENLSP @ NeurIPS 2023

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