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most citedIs Contrasting All You Need? Contrastive Learning for the Detection and Attribution of AI-generated Text

7 citations · 12 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.CL2026

Echoes of Deeds: Moral History Can Shape and Steer LLM Behavioral Choices

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Evaluations of Large Language Models (LLMs) morality typically consider decisions in isolation, thus overlooking whether an individual's unrelated prior conduct influences the mode…

cs.CL2026

MultiGhostBench: A Multilingual Benchmark for Long-Form LLM-Generated Text Attribution under Distribution Shifts

Matteo Greco, Anudeex Shetty, Andrea Tagarelli +1

While existing work on LLM authorship attribution (AA) has made progress, available benchmarks remain limited, often focusing on English, controlled settings, or relatively outdate…

physics.soc-ph2026

On the Effects of Decentralized Moderation on Network Robustness and Information Diffusion in Mastodon

Beatriz Arregui-García, Lucio La Cava, Anees Baqir +3

Decentralized online social networks such as Mastodon distribute moderation power across thousands of independently governed servers, raising fundamental questions about how local…

cs.CL2026

Luminol-AIDetect: Fast Zero-shot Machine-Generated Text Detection based on Perplexity under Text Shuffling

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Machine-generated text (MGT) detection requires identifying structurally invariant signals across generation models, rather than relying on model-specific fingerprints. In this res…

cs.CL2026

Culturally Grounded Personas in Large Language Models: Characterization and Alignment with Socio-Psychological Value Frameworks

Candida M. Greco, Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Despite the growing utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) for simulating human behavior, the extent to which these synthetic personas accurately reflect world and moral value sys…

cs.SI2025

Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit

Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli

Generative Artificial Intelligence is reshaping online communication by enabling large-scale production of Machine-Generated Text (MGT) at low cost. While its presence is rapidly g…

cs.CL2025

Toward Preference-aligned Large Language Models via Residual-based Model Steering

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Preference alignment is a critical step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) useful and aligned with (human) preferences. Existing approaches such as Reinforcement Learning from…

cs.CL2025

Authorship Attribution in Multilingual Machine-Generated Texts

Lucio La Cava, Dominik Macko, Róbert Móro +2

As Large Language Models (LLMs) have reached human-like fluency and coherence, distinguishing machine-generated text (MGT) from human-written content becomes increasingly difficult…

cs.CL2025

OpenTuringBench: An Open-Model-based Benchmark and Framework for Machine-Generated Text Detection and Attribution

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Open Large Language Models (OLLMs) are increasingly leveraged in generative AI applications, posing new challenges for detecting their outputs. We propose OpenTuringBench, a new be…

cs.LG2025

Heuristic-Informed Mixture of Experts for Link Prediction in Multilayer Networks

Lucio La Cava, Domenico Mandaglio, Lorenzo Zangari +1

Link prediction algorithms for multilayer networks are in principle required to effectively account for the entire layered structure while capturing the unique contexts offered by…

cs.CY2024

Safeguarding Decentralized Social Media: LLM Agents for Automating Community Rule Compliance

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Ensuring content compliance with community guidelines is crucial for maintaining healthy online social environments. However, traditional human-based compliance checking struggles…

cs.CL2024★ 7 cited

Is Contrasting All You Need? Contrastive Learning for the Detection and Attribution of AI-generated Text

Lucio La Cava, Davide Costa, Andrea Tagarelli

The significant progress in the development of Large Language Models has contributed to blurring the distinction between human and AI-generated text. The increasing pervasiveness o…

cs.CL2024

Talking the Talk Does Not Entail Walking the Walk: On the Limits of Large Language Models in Lexical Entailment Recognition

Candida M. Greco, Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

Verbs form the backbone of language, providing the structure and meaning to sentences. Yet, their intricate semantic nuances pose a longstanding challenge. Understanding verb relat…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Open Models, Closed Minds? On Agents Capabilities in Mimicking Human Personalities through Open Large Language Models

Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli

The emergence of unveiling human-like behaviors in Large Language Models (LLMs) has led to a closer connection between NLP and human psychology. Scholars have been studying the inh…

cs.SI2023★ 1 cited

Polarization in Decentralized Online Social Networks

Lucio La Cava, Domenico Mandaglio, Andrea Tagarelli

Centralized social media platforms are currently experiencing a shift in user engagement, drawing attention to alternative paradigms like Decentralized Online Social Networks (DOSN…