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most citedA Reproducible Analysis of Sequential Recommender Systems

16 citations · 23 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.CL2026

QUORUM: QUality-Optimized Routing Using Multiple annotators

Antonio Purificato, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Andrea Bacciu +2

Data annotation remains a central bottleneck in natural language processing, requiring human effort to obtain high-quality labels at scale. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer…

cs.CV2026

Art Beyond Semantics: Sheaf-Informed Contrastive Learning for Multi-Relational Representations

Ludovica Schaerf, Antonio Purificato, Piera Riccio +2

Understanding a painting is never a single act. Art historians may analyze the same work through concepts of style, iconography, or historical context, dimensions that are not inte…

cs.CL2026

Select, Label, Evaluate: Active Testing in NLP

Antonio Purificato, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Andrea Bacciu +2

Human annotation cost and time remain significant bottlenecks in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with test data annotation being particularly expensive due to the stringent requ…

cs.LG2025

Directional Sheaf Hypergraph Networks: Unifying Learning on Directed and Undirected Hypergraphs

Emanuele Mule, Stefano Fiorini, Antonio Purificato +3

Hypergraphs provide a natural way to represent higher-order interactions among multiple entities. While undirected hypergraphs have been extensively studied, the case of directed h…

cs.AI2025

One Search Fits All: Pareto-Optimal Eco-Friendly Model Selection

Filippo Betello, Antonio Purificato, Vittoria Vineis +2

The environmental impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is emerging as a significant global concern, particularly regarding model training. In this paper, we introduce GREEN (Guid…

stat.ML2025

The Majority Vote Paradigm Shift: When Popular Meets Optimal

Antonio Purificato, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Anil Kumar Nelakanti +3

Reliably labelling data typically requires annotations from multiple human workers. However, humans are far from being perfect. Hence, it is a common practice to aggregate labels g…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Eco-Aware Graph Neural Networks for Sustainable Recommendations

Antonio Purificato, Fabrizio Silvestri

Recommender systems play a crucial role in alleviating information overload by providing personalized recommendations tailored to users' preferences and interests. Recently, Graph…

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.IR2023★ 1 cited

Sheaf4Rec: Sheaf Neural Networks for Graph-based Recommender Systems

Antonio Purificato, Giulia Cassarà, Federico Siciliano +2

Recent advancements in Graph Neural Networks (GNN) have facilitated their widespread adoption in various applications, including recommendation systems. GNNs have proven to be effe…