1 code implementation • 27 Feb 2024 • Luca Salvatore Lorello, Marco Lippi, Stefano Melacci
Artificial intelligence is continuously seeking novel challenges and benchmarks to effectively measure performance and to advance the state-of-the-art.
no code implementations • LREC 2018 • Stefano Melacci, Achille Globo, Leonardo Rigutini
Supervised models for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) currently yield to state-of-the-art results in the most popular benchmarks.
no code implementations • 16 Feb 2024 • Achille Globo, Antonio Trevisi, Andrea Zugarini, Leonardo Rigutini, Marco Maggini, Stefano Melacci
In this paper we present a method for the automatic generation of large aligned corpora, that is based on the assumption that news and blog websites talk about the same events using different narrative styles.
no code implementations • 12 Feb 2024 • Matteo Tiezzi, Michele Casoni, Alessandro Betti, Tommaso Guidi, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
A longstanding challenge for the Machine Learning community is the one of developing models that are capable of processing and learning from very long sequences of data.
no code implementations • 14 Dec 2023 • Alessandro Betti, Michele Casoni, Marco Gori, Simone Marullo, Stefano Melacci, Matteo Tiezzi
This paper introduces a novel neural-based approach to optimal control, with the aim of working forward-in-time.
no code implementations • 13 Sep 2023 • Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
By and large, the professional handling of huge data collections is regarded as a fundamental ingredient of the progress of machine learning and of its spectacular results in related disciplines, with a growing agreement on risks connected to the centralization of such data collections.
no code implementations • 5 Jun 2023 • Simone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci, Tinne Tuytelaars
The intrinsic difficulty in adapting deep learning models to non-stationary environments limits the applicability of neural networks to real-world tasks.
1 code implementation • 17 Oct 2022 • Enrico Meloni, Lapo Faggi, Simone Marullo, Alessandro Betti, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
nature of the streamed data with samples that are smoothly evolving over time for efficient gradient computations.
1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2022 • Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Ciravegna, Giuseppe Marra, Francesco Giannini, Michelangelo Diligenti, Zohreh Shams, Frederic Precioso, Stefano Melacci, Adrian Weller, Pietro Lio, Mateja Jamnik
Deploying AI-powered systems requires trustworthy models supporting effective human interactions, going beyond raw prediction accuracy.
no code implementations • 8 Aug 2022 • Andrea Panizza, Szymon Tomasz Stefanek, Stefano Melacci, Giacomo Veneri, Marco Gori
The application is challenging due to the large image resolutions in which defects are very small and hardly captured by the commonly used anchor sizes, and also due to the small size of the available dataset.
no code implementations • 30 Jun 2022 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
The remarkable progress in computer vision over the last few years is, by and large, attributed to deep learning, fueled by the availability of huge sets of labeled data, and paired with the explosive growth of the GPU paradigm.
1 code implementation • 26 Apr 2022 • Matteo Tiezzi, Simone Marullo, Lapo Faggi, Enrico Meloni, Alessandro Betti, Stefano Melacci
Our experiments leverage 3D virtual environments and they show that the proposed agents can learn to distinguish objects just by observing the video stream.
no code implementations • 12 Oct 2021 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci, Marcello Pelillo, Fabio Roli
This paper sustains the position that the time has come for thinking of learning machines that conquer visual skills in a truly human-like context, where a few human-like object supervisions are given by vocal interactions and pointing aids only.
1 code implementation • 17 Sep 2021 • Enrico Meloni, Matteo Tiezzi, Luca Pasqualini, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
In the last few years, the scientific community showed a remarkable and increasing interest towards 3D Virtual Environments, training and testing Machine Learning-based models in realistic virtual worlds.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2021 • Enrico Meloni, Alessandro Betti, Lapo Faggi, Simone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Stefano Melacci
However, in order to devise continual learning algorithms that operate in more realistic conditions, it is fundamental to gain access to rich, fully customizable and controlled experimental playgrounds.
1 code implementation • 11 Aug 2021 • Gabriele Ciravegna, Pietro Barbiero, Francesco Giannini, Marco Gori, Pietro Lió, Marco Maggini, Stefano Melacci
The language used to communicate the explanations must be formal enough to be implementable in a machine and friendly enough to be understandable by a wide audience.
no code implementations • 21 Jun 2021 • Simone Marullo, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
In the last decade, motivated by the success of Deep Learning, the scientific community proposed several approaches to make the learning procedure of Neural Networks more effective.
3 code implementations • 12 Jun 2021 • Pietro Barbiero, Gabriele Ciravegna, Francesco Giannini, Pietro Lió, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
Explainable artificial intelligence has rapidly emerged since lawmakers have started requiring interpretable models for safety-critical domains.
Ranked #1 on Image Classification on CUB
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2021 • Andrea Zugarini, Luca Pasqualini, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini
Writers, poets, singers usually do not create their compositions in just one breath.
no code implementations • 15 Sep 2020 • Dario Zanca, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci, Alessandra Rufa
Another where the information from these maps is merged in order to select a single location to be attended for further and more complex computations and reasoning.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2020 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Simone Marullo, Stefano Melacci
In this paper we present a foundational study on a constrained method that defines learning problems with Neural Networks in the context of the principle of least cognitive action, which very much resembles the principle of least action in mechanics.
1 code implementation • 16 Jul 2020 • Enrico Meloni, Luca Pasqualini, Matteo Tiezzi, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
Recently, researchers in Machine Learning algorithms, Computer Vision scientists, engineers and others, showed a growing interest in 3D simulators as a mean to artificially create experimental settings that are very close to those in the real world.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2020 • Lapo Faggi, Alessandro Betti, Dario Zanca, Stefano Melacci, Marco Gori
Fast reactions to changes in the surrounding visual environment require efficient attention mechanisms to reallocate computational resources to most relevant locations in the visual field.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2020 • Matteo Tiezzi, Stefano Melacci, Alessandro Betti, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
In order to better structure the input probability distribution, we use a human-like focus of attention model that, coherently with the information maximization model, is also based on second-order differential equations.
no code implementations • 6 Jun 2020 • Stefano Melacci, Gabriele Ciravegna, Angelo Sotgiu, Ambra Demontis, Battista Biggio, Marco Gori, Fabio Roli
Adversarial attacks on machine learning-based classifiers, along with defense mechanisms, have been widely studied in the context of single-label classification problems.
1 code implementation • 5 May 2020 • Matteo Tiezzi, Giuseppe Marra, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini
The popularity of deep learning techniques renewed the interest in neural architectures able to process complex structures that can be represented using graphs, inspired by Graph Neural Networks (GNNs).
no code implementations • 18 Feb 2020 • Giuseppe Marra, Matteo Tiezzi, Stefano Melacci, Alessandro Betti, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
In this paper we study a constraint-based representation of neural network architectures.
1 code implementation • 18 Feb 2020 • Matteo Tiezzi, Giuseppe Marra, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini, Marco Gori
GNNs exploit a set of state variables, each assigned to a graph node, and a diffusion mechanism of the states among neighbor nodes, to implement an iterative procedure to compute the fixed point of the (learnable) state transition function.
no code implementations • 11 Feb 2020 • Dario Zanca, Stefano Melacci, Marco Gori
A computational modeling of this phenomenon must take into account where people look in order to evaluate which are the salient locations (spatial distribution of the fixations), when they look in those locations to understand the temporal development of the exploration (temporal order of the fixations), and how they move from one location to another with respect to the dynamics of the scene and the mechanics of the eyes (dynamics).
no code implementations • 13 Nov 2019 • Francesco Farina, Stefano Melacci, Andrea Garulli, Antonio Giannitrapani
In this paper, the extension of the framework of Learning from Constraints (LfC) to a distributed setting where multiple parties, connected over the network, contribute to the learning process is studied.
no code implementations • 24 Sep 2019 • Lisa Graziani, Stefano Melacci, Marco Gori
In this paper we focus on Facebook posts paired with reactions of multiple users, and we investigate their relationships with classes of emotions that are typically considered in the task of emotion detection.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2019 • Marco Maggini, Giuseppe Marra, Stefano Melacci, Andrea Zugarini
We consider a scenario where an artificial agent is reading a stream of text composed of a set of narrations, and it is informed about the identity of some of the individuals that are mentioned in the text portion that is currently being read.
no code implementations • 6 Sep 2019 • Matteo Tiezzi, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini, Angelo Frosini
In this paper we describe a video surveillance system able to detect traffic events in videos acquired by fixed videocameras on highways.
no code implementations • 1 Sep 2019 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
Humans are continuously exposed to a stream of visual data with a natural temporal structure.
no code implementations • 23 Aug 2019 • Andrea Zugarini, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini
Motivated by the recent progresses on machine learning-based models that learn artistic styles, in this paper we focus on the problem of poem generation.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2019 • Giuseppe Marra, Andrea Zugarini, Stefano Melacci, Marco Maggini
In the last few years, neural networks have been intensively used to develop meaningful distributed representations of words and contexts around them.
no code implementations • 28 Aug 2018 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
A special choice of the functional index, which leads to forth-order differential equations---Cognitive Action Laws (CAL)---exhibits a structure that mirrors classic formulation of machine learning.
no code implementations • 14 Jul 2018 • Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci
The puzzle of computer vision might find new challenging solutions when we realize that most successful methods are working at image level, which is remarkably more difficult than processing directly visual streams, just as happens in nature.
no code implementations • 11 Aug 2014 • Marco Gori, Marco Lippi, Marco Maggini, Stefano Melacci
In the last few years we have seen a growing interest in machine learning approaches to computer vision and, especially, to semantic labeling.