4 papers
Quid est VERITAS? A Modular Framework for Archival Document Analysis
Leonardo Bassanini, Ludovico Biancardi, Alfio Ferrara +3
The digitisation of historical documents has traditionally been conceived as a process limited to character-level transcription, producing flat text that lacks the structural and s…
How Instruction-Tuning Imparts Length Control: A Cross-Lingual Mechanistic Analysis
Elisabetta Rocchetti, Alfio Ferrara
Adhering to explicit length constraints, such as generating text with a precise word count, remains a significant challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). This study aims at inv…
What's Taboo for You? - An Empirical Evaluation of LLMs Behavior Toward Sensitive Content
Alfio Ferrara, Sergio Picascia, Laura Pinnavaia +3
Proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown tendencies toward politeness, formality, and implicit content moderation. While previous research has primarily focused on expli…
Unveiling Transformer Perception by Exploring Input Manifolds
Alessandro Benfenati, Alfio Ferrara, Alessio Marta +2
This paper introduces a general method for the exploration of equivalence classes in the input space of Transformer models. The proposed approach is based on sound mathematical the…