5 papers
Beyond Monolithic Models: Symbolic Seams for Composable Neuro-Symbolic Architectures
Nicolas Schuler, Vincenzo Scotti, Raffaela Mirandola
Current Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are frequently built around monolithic models that entangle perception, reasoning, and decision-making, a design that often conflicts w…
A Research Roadmap for Augmenting Software Engineering Processes and Software Products with Generative AI
Domenico Amalfitano, Andreas Metzger, Marco Autili +8
Generative AI (GenAI) is rapidly transforming software engineering (SE) practices, influencing how SE processes are executed, as well as how software systems are developed, operate…
Do You Understand How I Feel?: Towards Verified Empathy in Therapy Chatbots
Francesco Dettori, Matteo Forasassi, Lorenzo Veronese +3
Conversational agents are increasingly used as support tools along mental therapeutic pathways with significant societal impacts. In particular, empathy is a key non-functional req…
A Roadmap for Tamed Interactions with Large Language Models
Vincenzo Scotti, Jan Keim, Tobias Hey +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in software systems ( GenAIware), enabling new forms of automation and interaction However, their probabilistic nature and re…
How Toxic Can You Get? Search-based Toxicity Testing for Large Language Models
Simone Corbo, Luca Bancale, Valeria De Gennaro +3
Language is a deep-rooted means of perpetration of stereotypes and discrimination. Large Language Models (LLMs), now a pervasive technology in our everyday lives, can cause extensi…