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cs.CV2026

GeoBiaset: A Counterfactual Benchmark for Demographic Bias in World-Level Geolocalization

Niccolò Niccoli, Silvia Dani, Marco Mistretta +3

World-level image geolocalization is an increasingly important task, yet the biases of current models remain poorly understood. Prior work has identified coarse dataset imbalances…

cs.LG2026

What DNA Foundation Models Learn Beyond Sequence Composition

Vincenzo Yuto Civale, Andrew David Bagdanov, Alberto Magi

Do genomic foundation models (FMs) provide predictive information beyond simple sequence composition? We evaluate frozen representations from five DNA FMs against normalized k-mer…

cs.CV2026

WASP: Weakly Aligned Spatiotemporal Pairs for Fetal Brain MRI-Ultrasound Learning

Francesco Correnti, Gabriele Magrini, Marco Mistretta +6

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is widely regarded as the optimal sensor for fetal brain analysis due to its superior soft-tissue contrast and anatomical detail. However, its high…

cs.CV2026

FLaRA: Predicting Future Latent Representations for Accident Anticipation

Lorenzo Caselli, Tomaso Trinci, Tommaso Bianconcini +4

Anticipating traffic accidents from dashcam videos is a critical challenge in intelligent transportation systems. Existing methods typically map visual context directly to a collis…

cs.RO2026

ARC-RL: A Reinforcement Learning Playground Inspired by ARC Raiders

Carlo Romeo, Andrew D. Bagdanov

Reinforcement learning for legged locomotion has matured into a stack of multi-component reward functions and physics-engine benchmarks whose morphologies are uniformly derived fro…

cs.LG2026

SOPE: Stabilizing Off-Policy Evaluation for Online RL with Prior Data

Carlo Romeo, Girolamo Macaluso, Alessandro Sestini +1

Incorporating prior data into online reinforcement learning accelerates training but typically forces a difficult trade-off between high computational costs and long, multi-stage t…

cs.AI2026

Intermediate Layers Encode Optimal Biological Representations in Single-Cell Foundation Models

Vincenzo Yuto Civale, Roberto Semeraro, Andrew David Bagdanov +1

Current single-cell foundation model benchmarks universally extract final layer embeddings, assuming these represent optimal feature spaces. We systematically evaluate layer-wise r…

cs.LG2026

Preventing Latent Rehearsal Decay in Online Continual SSL with SOLAR

Giacomo Cignoni, Simone Magistri, Andrew D. Bagdanov +1

This paper explores Online Continual Self-Supervised Learning (OCSSL), a scenario in which models learn from continuous streams of unlabeled, non-stationary data, where methods typ…

cs.CV2026

Project and Mix: Task-Semantic Prototypes for Few-Shot Image Classification

Dipam Goswami, Simone Magistri, Gido M. van de Ven +4

Vision-language models like CLIP are trained with the objective of aligning text and image pairs. Beyond text prompts alone, recent works show that exploiting few-shot image embedd…

cs.CV2026

IsoCLIP: Decomposing CLIP Projectors for Efficient Intra-modal Alignment

Simone Magistri, Dipam Goswami, Marco Mistretta +3

Vision-Language Models like CLIP are extensively used for inter-modal tasks which involve both visual and text modalities. However, when the individual modality encoders are applie…

cs.LG2026

Position: Modular Memory is the Key to Continual Learning Agents

Vaggelis Dorovatas, Malte Schwerin, Andrew D. Bagdanov +21

Foundation models have transformed machine learning through large-scale pretraining and increased test-time compute. Despite surpassing human performance in several domains, these…

cs.CV2026

SpectralGCD: Spectral Concept Selection and Cross-modal Representation Learning for Generalized Category Discovery

Lorenzo Caselli, Marco Mistretta, Simone Magistri +1

Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) aims to identify novel categories in unlabeled data while leveraging a small labeled subset of known classes. Training a parametric classifier…

cs.CV2025

Training-Free Diffusion Priors for Text-to-Image Generation via Optimization-based Visual Inversion

Samuele Dell'Erba, Andrew D. Bagdanov

Diffusion models have established the state-of-the-art in text-to-image generation, but their performance often relies on a diffusion prior network to translate text embeddings int…

cs.CV2025

No MoCap Needed: Post-Training Motion Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning using Only Textual Prompts

Girolamo Macaluso, Lorenzo Mandelli, Mirko Bicchierai +2

Diffusion models have recently advanced human motion generation, producing realistic and diverse animations from textual prompts. However, adapting these models to unseen actions o…

cs.CV2025

Accurate and Efficient Low-Rank Model Merging in Core Space

Aniello Panariello, Daniel Marczak, Simone Magistri +5

In this paper, we address the challenges associated with merging low-rank adaptations of large neural networks. With the rise of parameter-efficient adaptation techniques, such as…

cs.AI2025

NTRL: Encounter Generation via Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Dungeons and Dragons

Carlo Romeo, Andrew D. Bagdanov

Balancing combat encounters in Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) is a complex task that requires Dungeon Masters (DM) to manually assess party strength, enemy composition, and dynamic playe…

cs.LG2025

TROFI: Trajectory-Ranked Offline Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Alessandro Sestini, Joakim Bergdahl, Konrad Tollmar +2

In offline reinforcement learning, agents are trained using only a fixed set of stored transitions derived from a source policy. However, this requires that the dataset be labeled…

cs.CV2025

EFC++: Elastic Feature Consolidation with Prototype Re-balancing for Cold Start Exemplar-free Incremental Learning

Simone Magistri, Tomaso Trinci, Albin Soutif-Cormerais +2

Exemplar-free Class Incremental Learning (EFCIL) aims to learn from a sequence of tasks without having access to previous task data. In this paper, we consider the challenging Cold…

cs.CV2025

Cross the Gap: Exposing the Intra-modal Misalignment in CLIP via Modality Inversion

Marco Mistretta, Alberto Baldrati, Lorenzo Agnolucci +2

Pre-trained multi-modal Vision-Language Models like CLIP are widely used off-the-shelf for a variety of applications. In this paper, we show that the common practice of individuall…

cs.LG2025

No Task Left Behind: Isotropic Model Merging with Common and Task-Specific Subspaces

Daniel Marczak, Simone Magistri, Sebastian Cygert +3

Model merging integrates the weights of multiple task-specific models into a single multi-task model. Despite recent interest in the problem, a significant performance gap between…

cs.LG2025

SPEQ: Offline Stabilization Phases for Efficient Q-Learning in High Update-To-Data Ratio Reinforcement Learning

Carlo Romeo, Girolamo Macaluso, Alessandro Sestini +1

High update-to-data (UTD) ratio algorithms in reinforcement learning (RL) improve sample efficiency but incur high computational costs, limiting real-world scalability. We propose…

cs.LG2024

Covariances for Free: Exploiting Mean Distributions for Training-free Federated Learning

Dipam Goswami, Simone Magistri, Kai Wang +3

Using pre-trained models has been found to reduce the effect of data heterogeneity and speed up federated learning algorithms. Recent works have explored training-free methods usin…

cs.AI2024

RE-tune: Incremental Fine Tuning of Biomedical Vision-Language Models for Multi-label Chest X-ray Classification

Marco Mistretta, Andrew D. Bagdanov

In this paper we introduce RE-tune, a novel approach for fine-tuning pre-trained Multimodal Biomedical Vision-Language models (VLMs) in Incremental Learning scenarios for multi-lab…

cs.LG2024

How green is continual learning, really? Analyzing the energy consumption in continual training of vision foundation models

Tomaso Trinci, Simone Magistri, Roberto Verdecchia +1

With the ever-growing adoption of AI, its impact on the environment is no longer negligible. Despite the potential that continual learning could have towards Green AI, its environm…