4 papers
A Picture of Agentic Search
Francesca Pezzuti, Ophir Frieder, Fabrizio Silvestri +2
With automated systems increasingly issuing search queries alongside humans, Information Retrieval (IR) faces a major shift. Yet IR remains human-centred, with systems, evaluation…
Same Answer, Different Representations: Hidden instability in VLMs
Farooq Ahmad Wani, Alessandro Suglia, Rohit Saxena +6
The robustness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) is commonly assessed through output-level invariance, implicitly assuming that stable predictions reflect stable multimodal processi…
Attention Sinks in Diffusion Language Models
Maximo Eduardo Rulli, Simone Petruzzi, Edoardo Michielon +3
Masked Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional Autoregressive Models (ARMs). DLMs employ transformer encoders with bidirect…
Enhancing Content Moderation with Culturally-Aware Models
Alex J. Chan, José Luis Redondo GarcÃa, Fabrizio Silvestri +2
Content moderation on a global scale must navigate a complex array of local cultural distinctions, which can hinder effective enforcement. While global policies aim for consistency…