Alberto Muñoz-Ortiz

About me

I am a language AI researcher based in Lausanne. I completed my PhD in Computer Science at the University of A Coruña in June 2026, and was a Visiting Researcher at LMU Munich and EPFL.

My research focused on efficient, robust, and interpretable language models, especially in multilingual, low-resource, and non-standard language settings.

I am looking for industry roles in Switzerland or remote. Available immediately; EU citizen.

Projects

2026

  • Reading Cross-Lingual Semantic Differences from Apertus

    Solo submission to Hack Apertus 2026, Track 2A (UZH SwissGov-RSD challenge).

    Scores each word of parallel Swiss government web pages (English vs. German, French, and Italian) for how much its meaning differs from the other version, using Apertus 8B as a frozen reader. Middle-layer hidden-state alignment and contrastive surprisal, combined by a logistic regression head, reach 37.4 Spearman on the held-out test, vs. 17.1 for the best released baseline.

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Publications

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

PhD thesis

"Encoding, Representation, and Interpretation of Linguistic Structure Across NLP Paradigms". University of A Coruña thesis record.