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5 papers

cs.CV2026

Do Composed Image Retrieval Benchmarks Require Multimodal Composition?

Matteo Attimonelli, Alessandro De Bellis, Aryo Pradipta Gema +8

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a multimodal retrieval task where a query consists of a reference image and a textual modification, and the goal is to retrieve a target image sat…

cs.CL2025

Type-Less yet Type-Aware Inductive Link Prediction with Pretrained Language Models

Alessandro De Bellis, Salvatore Bufi, Giovanni Servedio +3

Inductive link prediction is emerging as a key paradigm for real-world knowledge graphs (KGs), where new entities frequently appear and models must generalize to them without retra…

cs.IR2025

Do We Really Need Specialization? Evaluating Generalist Text Embeddings for Zero-Shot Recommendation and Search

Matteo Attimonelli, Alessandro De Bellis, Claudio Pomo +3

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) are widely used to derive semantic representations from item metadata in recommendation and search. In sequential recommendation, PLMs enhance ID…

cs.CL2025

Are the Hidden States Hiding Something? Testing the Limits of Factuality-Encoding Capabilities in LLMs

Giovanni Servedio, Alessandro De Bellis, Dario Di Palma +2

Factual hallucinations are a major challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs). They undermine reliability and user trust by generating inaccurate or fabricated content. Recent stud…

cs.CL2025

LLaMAs Have Feelings Too: Unveiling Sentiment and Emotion Representations in LLaMA Models Through Probing

Dario Di Palma, Alessandro De Bellis, Giovanni Servedio +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly become central to NLP, demonstrating their ability to adapt to various tasks through prompting techniques, including sentiment analysis. H…