Search Results for author: Stefano Melacci

Found 39 papers, 10 papers with code

The KANDY Benchmark: Incremental Neuro-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning with Kandinsky Patterns

1 code implementation27 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.

Benchmarking Binary Classification

Neural paraphrasing by automatically crawled and aligned sentence pairs

no code implementations16 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.

Sentence Text Generation

On the Resurgence of Recurrent Models for Long Sequences -- Survey and Research Opportunities in the Transformer Era

no code implementations12 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.

Neural Time-Reversed Generalized Riccati Equation

no code implementations14 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.

Collectionless Artificial Intelligence

no code implementations13 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.

Memorization Position

Continual Learning with Pretrained Backbones by Tuning in the Input Space

no code implementations5 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.

Continual Learning Image Classification

PARTIME: Scalable and Parallel Processing Over Time with Deep Neural Networks

1 code implementation17 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.

Learning to Identify Drilling Defects in Turbine Blades with Single Stage Detectors

no code implementations8 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.

Data Augmentation object-detection +1

Deep Learning to See: Towards New Foundations of Computer Vision

no code implementations30 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.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Stochastic Coherence Over Attention Trajectory For Continuous Learning In Video Streams

1 code implementation26 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.

Can machines learn to see without visual databases?

no code implementations12 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.

Position

Messing Up 3D Virtual Environments: Transferable Adversarial 3D Objects

1 code implementation17 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.

Benchmarking BIG-bench Machine Learning

Evaluating Continual Learning Algorithms by Generating 3D Virtual Environments

no code implementations16 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.

Continual Learning

Logic Explained Networks

1 code implementation11 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.

Explainable artificial intelligence

Friendly Training: Neural Networks Can Adapt Data To Make Learning Easier

no code implementations21 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.

Entropy-based Logic Explanations of Neural Networks

3 code implementations12 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.

Explainable artificial intelligence Image Classification

Gravitational Models Explain Shifts on Human Visual Attention

no code implementations15 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.

Developing Constrained Neural Units Over Time

no code implementations1 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.

SAILenv: Learning in Virtual Visual Environments Made Simple

1 code implementation16 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.

Optical Flow Estimation

Wave Propagation of Visual Stimuli in Focus of Attention

no code implementations19 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.

Scanpath prediction

Focus of Attention Improves Information Transfer in Visual Features

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.

Domain Knowledge Alleviates Adversarial Attacks in Multi-Label Classifiers

no code implementations6 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.

Multi-Label Classification

Deep Constraint-based Propagation in Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation5 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).

Local Propagation in Constraint-based Neural Network

no code implementations18 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.

A Lagrangian Approach to Information Propagation in Graph Neural Networks

1 code implementation18 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.

Toward Improving the Evaluation of Visual Attention Models: a Crowdsourcing Approach

no code implementations11 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).

Saliency Prediction

Asynchronous Distributed Learning from Constraints

no code implementations13 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.

Document Classification Privacy Preserving

Jointly Learning to Detect Emotions and Predict Facebook Reactions

no code implementations24 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.

Emotion Classification

Learning in Text Streams: Discovery and Disambiguation of Entity and Relation Instances

no code implementations6 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.

One-Shot Learning Relation

Video Surveillance of Highway Traffic Events by Deep Learning Architectures

no code implementations6 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.

Transfer Learning

Learning Visual Features Under Motion Invariance

no code implementations1 Sep 2019 Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci

Humans are continuously exposed to a stream of visual data with a natural temporal structure.

Neural Poetry: Learning to Generate Poems using Syllables

no code implementations23 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.

Language Modelling

An Unsupervised Character-Aware Neural Approach to Word and Context Representation Learning

no code implementations19 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.

Representation Learning

Cognitive Action Laws: The Case of Visual Features

no code implementations28 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.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Motion Invariance in Visual Environments

no code implementations14 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.

Learning to see like children: proof of concept

no code implementations11 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.

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