Publications
For a complete and up-to-date list, see my Google Scholar profile.
2026
When Annotators Disagree: A Principled Approach to Learning with Noisy Labels
Authors: Antonio Purificato, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Andrea Bacciu, Anil Kumar Nelakanti, Lucas Cassano, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Amin Mantrach
Journal: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (Q1 Journal), 2026
The Majority Vote Paradigm Shift: When Popular Meets Optimal
Authors: Antonio Purificato, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Anil Kumar Nelakanti, Andrea Bacciu, Fabrizio Silvestri, Amin Mantrach
Conference: AISTATS 2026
Preprint: arXiv
2025
Monte Carlo Temperature: a Robust Sampling Strategy for LLM’s Uncertainty Quantification Methods
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Niccolò Cecere, Ignacio Fernández Tobías, Amin Mantrach
Conference: TrustNLP Workshop 2025
Paper: Link
Beyond Traditional Search: Bridging Retrieval, Reasoning, and Language Barriers in Intelligent Search Systems
Authors: Andrea Bacciu
Ph.D. Thesis — Sapienza University of Rome, 2025
Renormalized Graph Representations for Node Classification
Authors: Francesco Caso, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu, Pietro Liò, Fabrizio Silvestri
Preprint: arXiv
2024
DanteLLM: Let’s Push Italian LLM Research Forward!
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Cesare Campagnano, Giovanni Trappolini, Fabrizio Silvestri
Conference: LREC-COLING 2024
A Reproducible Analysis of Sequential Recommender Systems
Authors: Filippo Betello, Antonio Purificato, Federico Siciliano, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
Journal: IEEE Access, 2024
Generating Query Recommendations via LLMs
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Enrico Palumbo, Andreas Damianou, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
Workshop: IR-RAG @ SIGIR 2024
STLight: a Fully Convolutional Approach for Efficient Predictive Learning by Spatio-Temporal Joint Processing
Authors: Andrea Alfarano, Andrea Alfarano, Luca Friso, Andrea Bacciu, Irene Amerini, Fabrizio Silvestri
Conference: WACV 2024
Handling Ontology Gaps in Semantic Parsing
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Marco Damonte, Marco Basaldella, Emilio Monti
Conference: *SEM 2024
2023
Fauno: The Italian Large Language Model that will leave you senza parole!
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodolà, Fabrizio Silvestri
Workshop: IIR 2023 — 13th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop
RRAML: Reinforced Retrieval Augmented Machine Learning
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Florin Cuconasu, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto, Giovanni Trappolini
Conference: AIxIA 2023
Integrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
Conference: RecSys 2023
Renormalized Graph Neural Networks
Authors: Francesco Caso, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu, Pietro Liò, Fabrizio Silvestri
Conference: IJCNN 2023
2022
Study on Transfer Learning Capabilities for Pneumonia Classification in Chest-X-Rays Images
Authors: Danilo Avola, Andrea Bacciu, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli, Marco Raoul Marini, Riccardo Taiello
Journal: Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine — CMPB (Q1 Journal), 2022
Paper: Link
2021
🏆 Unifying Cross-Lingual Semantic Role Labeling with Heterogeneous Linguistic Resources
Authors: Simone Conia, Andrea Bacciu, Roberto Navigli
Conference: NAACL 2021 — 🏆 Outstanding Long Paper Award 🏆
Paper: Link
Github: Link
2019
Bot and Gender Detection of Twitter Accounts Using Distortion and LSA
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Valerio Neri, Julinda Stefa
Conference: CLEF 2019
Paper: Link
Github: Link
Cross-Domain Authorship Attribution Combining Instance Based and Profile-Based Features
Authors: Andrea Bacciu, Massimo La Morgia, Alessandro Mei, Eugenio Nerio Nemmi, Valerio Neri, Julinda Stefa
Conference: CLEF 2019
Paper: Link
Github: Link