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most citedThe Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems

204 citations · 238 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2025

AutoBench: Automating LLM Evaluation through Reciprocal Peer Assessment

Dario Loi, Elena Maria Muià, Federico Siciliano +4

We present AutoBench, a fully automated and self-sustaining framework for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) through reciprocal peer assessment. This paper provides a rigorous…

cs.CL2025

Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs

Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice +2

Traditional Information Retrieval (IR) metrics, such as nDCG, MAP, and MRR, assume that human users sequentially examine documents with diminishing attention to lower ranks. This a…

cs.IR2024

ECLIPSE: Contrastive Dimension Importance Estimation with Pseudo-Irrelevance Feedback for Dense Retrieval

Giulio D'Erasmo, Giovanni Trappolini, Nicola Tonellotto +1

Recent advances in Information Retrieval have leveraged high-dimensional embedding spaces to improve the retrieval of relevant documents. Moreover, the Manifold Clustering Hypothes…

cs.IR2024★ 16 cited

A Reproducible Analysis of Sequential Recommender Systems

Filippo Betello, Antonio Purificato, Federico Siciliano +4

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRSs) have emerged as a highly efficient approach to recommendation systems. By leveraging sequential data, SRSs can identify temporal patterns in u…

cs.CL2024

A Tale of Trust and Accuracy: Base vs. Instruct LLMs in RAG Systems

Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Nicola Tonellotto +1

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence combining a retrieval phase with a generative phase, with the latter typically…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

TEXT2TASTE: A Versatile Egocentric Vision System for Intelligent Reading Assistance Using Large Language Model

Wiktor Mucha, Florin Cuconasu, Naome A. Etori +2

The ability to read, understand and find important information from written text is a critical skill in our daily lives for our independence, comfort and safety. However, a signifi…

cs.IR2024★ 204 cited

The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems

Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has recently emerged as a method to extend beyond the pre-trained knowledge of Large Language Models by augmenting the original prompt with rel…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Prompt-to-OS (P2OS): Revolutionizing Operating Systems and Human-Computer Interaction with Integrated AI Generative Models

Gabriele Tolomei, Cesare Campagnano, Fabrizio Silvestri +1

In this paper, we present a groundbreaking paradigm for human-computer interaction that revolutionizes the traditional notion of an operating system. Within this innovative framewo…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

RRAML: Reinforced Retrieval Augmented Machine Learning

Andrea Bacciu, Florin Cuconasu, Federico Siciliano +3

The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized machine learning and related fields, showcasing remarkable abilities in comprehending, generating, and manipulating…

cs.CL2023

Fauno: The Italian Large Language Model that will leave you senza parole!

Andrea Bacciu, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli +2

This paper presents Fauno, the first and largest open-source Italian conversational Large Language Model (LLM). Our goal with Fauno is to democratize the study of LLMs in Italian,…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Renormalized Graph Representations for Node Classification

Francesco Caso, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu +2

Graph neural networks process information on graphs represented at a given resolution scale. We analyze the effect of using different coarse-grained graph resolutions, obtained thr…

cs.MM2023★ 11 cited

Multimodal Neural Databases

Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà +2

The rise in loosely-structured data available through text, images, and other modalities has called for new ways of querying them. Multimedia Information Retrieval has filled this…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Sparse Vicious Attacks on Graph Neural Networks

Giovanni Trappolini, Valentino Maiorca, Silvio Severino +3

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have proven to be successful in several predictive modeling tasks for graph-structured data. Amongst those tasks, link prediction is one of the fundame…

eess.AS2021

CycleDRUMS: Automatic Drum Arrangement For Bass Lines Using CycleGAN

Giorgio Barnabò, Giovanni Trappolini, Lorenzo Lastilla +4

The two main research threads in computer-based music generation are: the construction of autonomous music-making systems, and the design of computer-based environments to assist m…