experience
researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações - Sardine LabSep 2024 - Present, Lisbon
- working on context-efficient alternatives to the transformer architecture and their interpretability mechanisms
- advised by Prof. André Martins and Prof. Marcos Treviso
co-founder
SMP TechnologiesMay 2023 - Oct 2023, Munich
- co-founded a startup to solve and automate enterprise problems with modern AI technologies (LLMs, diffusion, computer vision, etc...)
- designed and built the company's business infrastructure, deployed using AWS
research assistant
Technical University of Munich - SebisNov 2022 - Jul 2023, Munich
- led a project for evaluating different sparse models in abstractive summarization
- developed a framework for fine-tuning/evaluating various DL models in different NLP downstream tasks
- advised by Anum Afzal and Prof. Dr. Florian Matthes
publications
Long-Context Generalization with Sparse Attention
Pavlo Vasylenko, Hugo Pitorro, Marcos Treviso, André F. T. MartinsSep 2025
arxiv
LaTIM: Measuring Latent Token-to-Token Interactions in Mamba Models
Hugo Pitorro, Marcos TrevisoFeb 2025
ACL 2025 (outstanding paper award)
How Effective are State Space Models for Machine Translation?
Hugo Pitorro, Pavlo Vasylenko, Marcos Treviso, André F. T. MartinsNov 2024
WMT 2024
education
master in Informatics
Technical University of MunichOct 2021 - May 2024, Munich
- thesis: Exploring Efficient Approaches for Long-Context NLP
- completed several courses in ML, Scientific and Quantum Computing areas
- built a text simplification system with a pipeline of Deep Learning models
- worked on a financial assistant chatbot in the Chair of Digital Finance
- graduated with an average of 1.8/5, merit, ECTS: A
lisbon machine learning school
Instituto Superior TécnicoJul 2023, Lisbon
- week-long school covering everything from fundamental Machine Learning, transformers, multimodality and causality
- attended lectures, labs and keynotes from selected speakers, distinguished professors and researchers
bachelor in Computer Science and Engineering
Instituto Superior TécnicoSep 2018 - Jul 2021, Lisbon
- completed projects in areas like Software Engineering, Distributed Systems, Networking and ML
- graduated with 17/20 average (Academic Merit Distinction), ECTS: A