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Ph.D. · AI research & tools · vintage computing · photography

Gian Luca Bailo

After a Ph.D. in electronic and computer engineering and research at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, I now work in applied AI R&D in Genoa. I run large language models on recycled hardware, study when a fast decision model should stop and think, restore retro computers and still write code for the Commodore 64, these days with AI agents next to me. Away from the keyboard, I photograph the Ligurian coast in natural light.

01 Projects

strata-cluster

C++

One 125B mixture-of-experts model split across two home PCs over plain gigabit Ethernet. An unofficial, experimental fork of the Strata inference engine.

distributed inference · MoE · Linux

System Switch

Python

When should a fast decision model stop and think? Code and data of the paper: a learned actor plays Doom and hands control to a reasoning vision-language model only when a gate opens.

decision models · VLM · ViZDoom

C64AIToolChain

C · 6510 asm

AI agents that write, debug and even playtest Commodore 64 assembly games, through a feedback loop with the VICE emulator and Python visual checks.

agents · Commodore 64 · ★ 29

doomgemma

Python

The Laya System One decision model against Gemma 4 E2B and Gemma 3 270M fine-tuned with LoRA on the same data, in FreeDoom: accuracy, calibration, latency and real games.

LoRA · Gemma · adapters on HF

In Search of an Author

Python

A multi-agent system for writing a book together, inspired by Pirandello: the characters are autonomous agents with their own memories and voices.

multi-agent · RAG · literature

progressive-cognitive

Python

Can a small LLM move from brute-force memorization to intuition and tool delegation? A proof of concept on Qwen2.5 with LoRA and structured pruning.

LoRA · pruning · 10 adapters on HF

More

02 Writing

Papers

About twenty earlier papers (2000–2006) on video coding, surveillance and telemedicine. Indexed as both Gian Luca Bailo and Gianluca Bailo.

Articles

All articles on Medium →

03 Photography

My most downloaded photos on Pixabay: sea, sky and storms in natural light. Click a photo to see it large. More on Instagram and Pixabay, free to use.

Camogli's church and castle above the sea in warm evening light
Camogli, Ligurian coast
A wave breaking white over dark layered rocks
Waves on the rocks
A dark storm front over the open sea, a ship on the horizon
Storm front over the sea
Towering cumulus clouds against a deep blue sky
Towering cumulus
A lone tree on a small island in Lake Molveno, turquoise water under wooded mountains
Lake Molveno, Trentino
Close-up of an orange daylily covered in raindrops on a black background
Daylily after the rain
A bright white cloud against a dark grey-blue sky
Cloud against a dark sky
A ginger cat caught mid-yawn
Mid-yawn