I'm an AI researcher at Cartesia, working on pretraining and scaling
language models, infrastructure for large-scale distributed training, and scaling laws for H-nets.
Read more in our blog post, From
Tokens to Bytes I: Scaling Hierarchical Networks.
I completed my PhD at Imperial College London through the Oxford-Imperial CDT in Mathematics of Random Systems, under the guidance of Dr. Cristopher Salvi. I completed my master's studies at Università di Pisa in 2022, with my thesis conducted at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Professor Josef Teichmann.
Here is a link to my PhD thesis, Graph expansions of neural networks: theory and applications for time-series analysis, if you'd like to read it and be transported into a world of graphs, trees, and their many combinations.
From February to May 2025, I interned at Cartesia.ai as a PhD
Researcher, where I worked on distillation and multimodality.
From July to September 2025, I interned at Quadrature Capital,
where I did lots of quanty things I'm not allowed to share.
Cunningham, Muça Cirone. "Contribution Weights: A Geometrical Analysis of Self-Attention Transformers", ICML26.
Muça Cirone. "Graph
expansions of neural networks: theory and applications for time-series analysis",
PhD thesis, Imperial College London, 2025.
Thesis committee: Professors Martin Hairer and
Kurusch Ebrahimi-Fard.
Walker, Yang, Muça Cirone, Salvi, Lyons. "Structured Linear CDEs: Maximally Expressive and Parallel-in-Time Sequence Models", NeurIPS25 (Spotlight).
Movahedi, Sarnthein, Muça Cirone, Orvieto. "Fixed-Point RNNs: From Diagonal to Dense in a Few Iterations", NeurIPS25 (Spotlight).
Muça Cirone, Orvieto, Walker, Salvi, Lyons. "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Selective State-Space Models", NeurIPS24.
Muça Cirone, Lemercier, Salvi. “Neural signature kernels as infinite-width-depth-limits of controlled ResNets”, ICML23.
Muça Cirone, Futter, Horvath. "Kernel Learning for Mean-Variance Trading Strategies", July 2025.
Muça Cirone, Salvi. "ParallelFlow: Parallelizing Linear Transformers via Flow Discretization", February 2025.
Glückstad, Muça Cirone, Teichmann. "Signature Reconstruction from Randomized Signatures", February 2025.
Muça Cirone, Salvi. "Rough kernel hedging", January 2025.
Muça Cirone, Hamdan, Salvi. "Graph Expansions of Deep Neural Networks and their Universal Scaling Limits", August 2024.
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