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most citedLetter of Intent: the NA60+ experiment

6 citations · 11 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

cs.LG2026

FedCMAPSS: A Benchmark for Federated Learning in Remaining Useful Life Estimation

Amelia Sorrenti, Matteo Pennisi, Concetto Spampinato +1

Data-driven prognostics and health management has emerged as a key enabler for Industry 4.0, yet the development of robust remaining useful life (RUL) estimation models is often li…

cs.CR2026

TrustErase: Auditable Instant Machine Unlearning with Passport-Embedded Representations

Rutger Hendrix, Leonardo G. Russo, Concetto Spampinato +2

The demand for privacy-compliant AI has amplified the need for machine unlearning; yet, existing retraining or distillation-based methods remain unverifiable and computationally co…

cs.CV2026

PERL: Parameter Efficient Reasoning in CLIP Latent Space

Simone Carnemolla, Salvatore Calcagno, Daniela Giordano +2

Contrastively trained vision-language models such as CLIP provide strong zero-shot transfer by aligning images and text in a shared embedding space. However, adapting these models…

cs.AI2026

OCCAM: Open-set Causal Concept explAnation and Ontology induction for black-box vision Models

Chiara Maria Russo, Simone Carnemolla, Simone Palazzo +3

Interpreting the decisions of deep image classifiers remains challenging, particularly in black-box settings where model internals are inaccessible. We introduce OCCAM, a framework…

cs.CV2026

UNBOX: Unveiling Black-box visual models with Natural-language

Simone Carnemolla, Chiara Russo, Simone Palazzo +5

Ensuring trustworthiness in open-world visual recognition requires models that are interpretable, fair, and robust to distribution shifts. Yet modern vision systems are increasingl…

cs.LG2026

Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual Learning

Salvatore Calcagno, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +4

Continual learning requires balancing plasticity and stability while mitigating catastrophic forgetting. Inspired by human dreaming as a mechanism for internal simulation and knowl…

cs.CV2025

DEXTER: Diffusion-Guided EXplanations with TExtual Reasoning for Vision Models

Simone Carnemolla, Matteo Pennisi, Sarinda Samarasinghe +5

Understanding and explaining the behavior of machine learning models is essential for building transparent and trustworthy AI systems. We introduce DEXTER, a data-free framework th…

cs.SD2025

SeeingSounds: Learning Audio-to-Visual Alignment via Text

Simone Carnemolla, Matteo Pennisi, Chiara Russo +3

We introduce SeeingSounds, a lightweight and modular framework for audio-to-image generation that leverages the interplay between audio, language, and vision-without requiring any…

cs.AI2025

Zero-Shot Decentralized Federated Learning

Alessio Masano, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +2

CLIP has revolutionized zero-shot learning by enabling task generalization without fine-tuning. While prompting techniques like CoOp and CoCoOp enhance CLIP's adaptability, their e…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Pre-Forgettable Models: Prompt Learning as a Native Mechanism for Unlearning

Rutger Hendrix, Giovanni Patanè, Leonardo G. Russo +5

Foundation models have transformed multimedia analysis by enabling robust and transferable representations across diverse modalities and tasks. However, their static deployment con…

cs.LG2024

FedRewind: Rewinding Continual Model Exchange for Decentralized Federated Learning

Luca Palazzo, Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri +3

In this paper, we present FedRewind, a novel approach to decentralized federated learning that leverages model exchange among nodes to address the issue of data distribution shift.…

cs.CV2024

Diffexplainer: Towards Cross-modal Global Explanations with Diffusion Models

Matteo Pennisi, Giovanni Bellitto, Simone Palazzo +2

We present DiffExplainer, a novel framework that, leveraging language-vision models, enables multimodal global explainability. DiffExplainer employs diffusion models conditioned on…

cs.CV2024

Selective Attention-based Modulation for Continual Learning

Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Matteo Pennisi +5

We present SAM, a biologically-plausible selective attention-driven modulation approach to enhance classification models in a continual learning setting. Inspired by neurophysiolog…

cs.NE2023

Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning

Amelia Sorrenti, Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri +3

We propose Wake-Sleep Consolidated Learning (WSCL), a learning strategy leveraging Complementary Learning System theory and the wake-sleep phases of the human brain to improve the…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

A Privacy-Preserving Walk in the Latent Space of Generative Models for Medical Applications

Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto +3

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have demonstrated their ability to generate synthetic samples that match a target distribution. However, from a privacy perspective, using GA…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

On the Effectiveness of Equivariant Regularization for Robust Online Continual Learning

Lorenzo Bonicelli, Matteo Boschini, Emanuele Frascaroli +6

Humans can learn incrementally, whereas neural networks forget previously acquired information catastrophically. Continual Learning (CL) approaches seek to bridge this gap by facil…

nucl-ex2022★ 6 cited

Letter of Intent: the NA60+ experiment

C. Ahdida, G. Alocco, F. Antinori +59

We propose a new fixed-target experiment for the study of electromagnetic and hard probes of the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) in heavy-ion collisions at the CERN SPS. The experiment ai…

cs.LG2022

Transfer without Forgetting

Matteo Boschini, Lorenzo Bonicelli, Angelo Porrello +5

This work investigates the entanglement between Continual Learning (CL) and Transfer Learning (TL). In particular, we shed light on the widespread application of network pretrainin…

cs.LG2022

Effects of Auxiliary Knowledge on Continual Learning

Giovanni Bellitto, Matteo Pennisi, Simone Palazzo +4

In Continual Learning (CL), a neural network is trained on a stream of data whose distribution changes over time. In this context, the main problem is how to learn new information…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

FedER: Federated Learning through Experience Replay and Privacy-Preserving Data Synthesis

Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto +4

In the medical field, multi-center collaborations are often sought to yield more generalizable findings by leveraging the heterogeneity of patient and clinical data. However, recen…

cs.DC2021

Bringing AI pipelines onto cloud-HPC: setting a baseline for accuracy of COVID-19 AI diagnosis

Iacopo Colonnelli, Barbara Cantalupo, Concetto Spampinato +2

HPC is an enabling platform for AI. The introduction of AI workloads in the HPC applications basket has non-trivial consequences both on the way of designing AI applications and on…

eess.IV2021

An Explainable AI System for Automated COVID-19 Assessment and Lesion Categorization from CT-scans

Matteo Pennisi, Isaak Kavasidis, Concetto Spampinato +12

COVID-19 infection caused by SARS-CoV-2 pathogen is a catastrophic pandemic outbreak all over the world with exponential increasing of confirmed cases and, unfortunately, deaths. I…