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Fabrizio Silvestri

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Papers indexed

120

Venues

37

Active years

2002–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

120 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACLThe Mechanics of Interference: Defusing Distractors in RAG via Sparse Autoencoder Interventions.Christian Giannetti, Giovanni Trappolini, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri, Pietro Lio
2026ACLAttention Sinks in Diffusion Language Models.Maximo Eduardo Rulli, Simone Petruzzi, Edoardo Michielon, Fabrizio Silvestri, Simone Scardapane, Alessio Devoto
2026EACLStatistical Foundations of DIME: Risk Estimation for Practical Index Selection.Giulio D'Erasmo, Cesare Campagnano, Antonio Mallia, Pierpaolo Brutti, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2026EACLRedefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs.Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, Yoelle Maarek, Fabrizio Silvestri
2026KDDCountering Overfitting with Counterfactual Examples.Flavio Giorgi, Fabiano Veglianti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
2026SIGIRLoad-sensitive Selective Pruning in Dense Retrieval.Maria Diana Calugaru, Federico Siciliano, Francesca Pezzuti, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2026SIGIRCATS: Cluster-Aware Thompson Sampling for Negative Mining in Sequential Recommendation.Giulia Di Teodoro, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025ACLBeyond Position: the emergence of wavelet-like properties in Transformers.Valeria Ruscio, Umberto Nanni, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025AISTATSNatural Language Counterfactual Explanations for Graphs Using Large Language Models.Flavio Giorgi, Cesare Campagnano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
2025CIKMAdvances in Medical Knowledge Systems: LLMs, RAG and Foundation Models.Giulia Di Teodoro, Valerio Guarrasi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025CVPRTask Singular Vectors: Reducing Task Interference in Model Merging.Antonio Andrea Gargiulo, Donato Crisostomi, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Simone Scardapane, Fabrizio Silvestri, Emanuele Rodol
2025ECIRE2Rank: Efficient and Effective Layer-Wise Reranking.Cesare Campagnano, Antonio Mallia, Jack Pertschuk, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025EMNLPDo RAG Systems Really Suffer From Positional Bias?Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, Guy Horowitz, Yoelle Maarek, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025ICIAPATM: Improving Model Merging by Alternating Tuning and Merging.Luca Zhou, Daniele Solombrino, Donato Crisostomi, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Fabrizio Silvestri, Emanuele Rodol
2025IJCNNRenormalized Graph Representations for Node Classification.Francesco Caso, Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Bacciu, Pietro Li, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025IJCNNLink Prediction with Physics-Inspired Graph Neural Networks.Andrea Giuseppe Di Francesco, Francesco Caso, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025IJCNNAre Convolutional Sequential Recommender Systems Still Competitive? Introducing New Models and Insights.Federico Siciliano, Antonio Purificato, Filippo Betello, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025IJCNNA Theoretical Analysis of Recommendation Loss Functions under Negative Sampling.Giulia Di Teodoro, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025ICTIRQPP-RA: Aggregating Large Language Model Rankings.Filippo Betello, Matteo Russo, Paul Dtting, Stefano Leonardi, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025ICTIREclipse: Contrastive Dimension Importance Estimation with Pseudo-Irrelevance Feedback for Dense Retrieval.Giulio D'Erasmo, Giovanni Trappolini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto
2025ICWSMVariational Inference of Parameters in Opinion Dynamics Models.Jacopo Lenti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
2025KDDTSMO 2025: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization: Search, Discovery, Matching, Pricing & Growth.Mihajlo Grbovic, Vladan Radosavljevic, Amit Goyal, Rui Song, Minmin Chen, Zhiwei Qin, Katerina Iliakopoulou-Zanos, Thanasis Noulas, Hongtu Zhu, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025RecSysTIM-Rec: Explicit Sparse Feedback on Multi-Item Upselling Recommendations in an Industrial Dataset of Telco Calls.Alessandro Sbandi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025SIGIRIR-RAG @SIGIR25: The Second Edition of the Workshop on Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems.Negar Arabzadeh, Ziheng Chen, Fabio Petroni, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giovanni Trappolini
2025SIGIRUnveiling DIME: Reproducibility, Generalizability, and Formal Analysis of Dimension Importance Estimation for Dense Retrieval.Cesare Campagnano, Antonio Mallia, Fabrizio Silvestri
2025WACVSTLight: A Fully Convolutional Approach for Efficient Predictive Learning by Spatio-Temporal Joint Processing.Andrea Alfarano, Alberto Alfarano, Linda Friso, Andrea Bacciu, Irene Amerini, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024CIKMMitigating Extreme Cold Start in Graph-based RecSys through Re-ranking.Alessandro Sbandi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024COLINGDanteLLM: Let's Push Italian LLM Research Forward!Andrea Bacciu, Cesare Campagnano, Giovanni Trappolini, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024ECIRInvestigating the Robustness of Sequential Recommender Systems Against Training Data Perturbations.Filippo Betello, Federico Siciliano, Pushkar Mishra, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024IJCNNLearning with Noisy Labels through Learnable Weighting and Centroid Similarity.Farooq Ahmad Wani, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024KDDEvading Community Detection via Counterfactual Neighborhood Search.Andrea Bernini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
2024KDDTSMO 2024: Two-sided Marketplace Optimization.Mihajlo Grbovic, Vladan Radosavljevic, Minmin Chen, Katerina Iliakopoulou-Zanos, Thanasis Noulas, Amit Goyal, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024RecSysRobustRecSys @ RecSys2024: Design, Evaluation and Deployment of Robust Recommender Systems.Valerio Guarrasi, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024WWWPersonalized Audiobook Recommendations at Spotify Through Graph Neural Networks.Marco De Nadai, Francesco Fabbri, Paul Gigioli, Alice Wang, Ang Li, Fabrizio Silvestri, Laura Kim, Shawn Lin, Vladan Radosavljevic, Sandeep Ghael, David Nyhan, Hugues Bouchard, Mounia Lalmas, Andreas Damianou
2024SIGIRThe Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems.Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano, Simone Filice, Cesare Campagnano, Yoelle Maarek, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2024SIGIRIR-RAG @ SIGIR24: Information Retrieval's Role in RAG Systems.Fabio Petroni, Federico Siciliano, Fabrizio Silvestri, Giovanni Trappolini
2023CIKMGraph Learning for Exploratory Query Suggestions in an Instant Search System.Enrico Palumbo, Andreas Damianou, Alice Wang, Alva Liu, Ghazal Fazelnia, Francesco Fabbri, Rui Ferreira, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hugues Bouchard, Claudia Hauff, Mounia Lalmas, Ben Carterette, Praveen Chandar, David Nyhan
2023CVPRLeveraging Inter-Rater Agreement for Classification in the Presence of Noisy Labels.Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Lucas Cassano, Federico Siciliano, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri
2023ICLRAttention-likelihood relationship in Transformers.Valeria Ruscio, Valentino Maiorca, Fabrizio Silvestri
2023RecSysIntegrating Item Relevance in Training Loss for Sequential Recommender Systems.Andrea Bacciu, Federico Siciliano, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2023SIGIRThe Dark Side of Explanations: Poisoning Recommender Systems with Counterfactual Examples.Ziheng Chen, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jia Wang, Yongfeng Zhang, Gabriele Tolomei
2023SIGIRMultimodal Neural Databases.Giovanni Trappolini, Andrea Santilli, Emanuele Rodol, Alon Y. Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri
2022AISTATSCF-GNNExplainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Graph Neural Networks.Ana Lucic, Maartje A. ter Hoeve, Gabriele Tolomei, Maarten de Rijke, Fabrizio Silvestri
2022CIKMReLAX: Reinforcement Learning Agent Explainer for Arbitrary Predictive Models.Ziheng Chen, Fabrizio Silvestri, Jia Wang, He Zhu, Hongshik Ahn, Gabriele Tolomei
2022COLINGA Survey on Multimodal Disinformation Detection.Firoj Alam, Stefano Cresci, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Fabrizio Silvestri, Dimiter Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Shaden Shaar, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov
2022IJCAIDetecting and Understanding Harmful Memes: A Survey.Shivam Sharma, Firoj Alam, Md. Shad Akhtar, Dimitar Dimitrov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Hamed Firooz, Alon Y. Halevy, Fabrizio Silvestri, Preslav Nakov, Tanmoy Chakraborty
2022IJCNNFbMultiLingMisinfo: Challenging Large-Scale Multilingual Benchmark for Misinformation Detection.Giorgio Barnab, Federico Siciliano, Carlos Castillo, Stefano Leonardi, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Fabrizio Silvestri
2022IJCNNNEWRON: A New Generalization of the Artificial Neuron to Enhance the Interpretability of Neural Networks.Federico Siciliano, Maria Sofia Bucarelli, Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri
2022SIGIROn the Role of Relevance in Natural Language Processing Tasks.Artsiom Sauchuk, James Thorne, Alon Y. Halevy, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2021ACLDetecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes.Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, Firoj Alam, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hamed Firooz, Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino
2021ACLDatabase reasoning over text.James Thorne, Majid Yazdani, Marzieh Saeidi, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel, Alon Y. Halevy
2021IJCNNConcept Matching for Low-Resource Classification.Federico Errica, Fabrizio Silvestri, Bora Edizel, Ludovic Denoyer, Fabio Petroni, Vassilis Plachouras, Sebastian Riedel
2020EMNLPHow Decoding Strategies Affect the Verifiability of Generated Text.Luca Massarelli, Fabio Petroni, Aleksandra Piktus, Myle Ott, Tim Rocktschel, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri, Sebastian Riedel
2019NAACLMisspelling Oblivious Word Embeddings.Bora Edizel, Aleksandra Piktus, Piotr Bojanowski, Rui Ferreira, Edouard Grave, Fabrizio Silvestri
2019WWWEnlisting the Public to Build a Healthier Web Information Commons.Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri
2018WWWOSNED 2018 Chairs' Welcome & Organization.Rmy Cazabet, Andrea Passarella, Giulio Rossetti, Fabrizio Silvestri
2017KDDInterpretable Predictions of Tree-based Ensembles via Actionable Feature Tweaking.Gabriele Tolomei, Fabrizio Silvestri, Andrew Haines, Mounia Lalmas
2017WWWFriendly, Appealing or Both?: Characterising User Experience in Sponsored Search Landing Pages.Marc Bron, Miriam Redi, Mounia Lalmas, Fabrizio Silvestri, Huw Evans, Mahlon Chute
2016CIKMThe Role of Relevance in Sponsored Search.Luca Maria Aiello, Ioannis Arapakis, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Xiao Bai, Nicola Barbieri, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri
2016ICWSMOn the Behaviour of Deviant Communities in Online Social Networks.Mauro Coletto, Luca Maria Aiello, Claudio Lucchese, Fabrizio Silvestri
2016WWWImproving Post-Click User Engagement on Native Ads via Survival Analysis.Nicola Barbieri, Fabrizio Silvestri, Mounia Lalmas
2016SIGIRNetwork-Aware Recommendations of Novel Tweets.Noor Aldeen Alawad, Aris Anagnostopoulos, Stefano Leonardi, Ida Mele, Fabrizio Silvestri
2016SIGIRScalable Semantic Matching of Queries to Ads in Sponsored Search Advertising.Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrew Feng, Erik Ordentlich, Lee Yang, Gavin Owens
2016SIGIRPost-Learning Optimization of Tree Ensembles for Efficient Ranking.Claudio Lucchese, Franco Maria Nardini, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Trani
2015ISMISMUSETS: Diversity-Aware Web Query Suggestions for Shortening User Sessions.Marcin Sydow, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Stan Matwin, Fabrizio Silvestri
2015KDDPromoting Positive Post-Click Experience for In-Stream Yahoo Gemini Users.Mounia Lalmas, Janette Lehmann, Guy Shaked, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
2015NAACLHEADS: Headline Generation as Sequence Prediction Using an Abstract Feature-Rich Space.Carlos A. Colmenares, Marina Litvak, Amin Mantrach, Fabrizio Silvestri
2015WWWLarge-scale Contextual Query-to-Ad Matching and Retrieval System for Sponsored Search: (Abstract).Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Nemanja Djuric, Mihajlo Grbovic, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri
2015SIGIRContext- and Content-aware Embeddings for Query Rewriting in Sponsored Search.Mihajlo Grbovic, Nemanja Djuric, Vladan Radosavljevic, Fabrizio Silvestri, Narayan Bhamidipati
2015WSDMPredicting The Next App That You Are Going To Use.Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Di Jiang, Fabrizio Silvestri, Beverly Harrison
2013CIKMLearNext: learning to predict tourists movements.Ranieri Baraglia, Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri
2013CIKMLoad-sensitive selective pruning for distributed search.Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Salvatore Orlando, Iadh Ounis, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto
2013WWWTowards leveraging closed captions for news retrieval.Roi Blanco, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales, Fabrizio Silvestri
2013WWWLearning to shorten query sessions.Cristina Ioana Muntean, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Marcin Sydow
2013SPIREQuery Processing in Highly-Loaded Search Engines.Daniele Broccolo, Craig Macdonald, Salvatore Orlando, Iadh Ounis, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto
2012CIKMYou should read this! let me explain you why: explaining news recommendations to users.Roi Blanco, Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2012CIKMInteractive and context-aware tag spell check and correction.Francesco Bonchi, Ophir Frieder, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi
2012CIKMMaking your interests follow you on twitter.Marco Pennacchiotti, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini
2012ECAIUsing Machine Learning and Information Retrieval Techniques to Improve Software Maintainability.Anna Corazza, Sergio Di Martino, Valerio Maggio, Alessandro Moschitti, Andrea Passerini, Giuseppe Scanniello, Fabrizio Silvestri
2012ECIRHow Random Walks Can Help Tourism.Claudio Lucchese, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini
2012NLDBBlog Distillation via Sentiment-Sensitive Link Analysis.Giacomo Berardi, Andrea Esuli, Fabrizio Sebastiani, Fabrizio Silvestri
2012SIGIREfficient query recommendations in the long tail via center-piece subgraphs.Francesco Bonchi, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini
2012SIGIRPrefetching query results and its impact on search engines.Simon Jonassen, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Fabrizio Silvestri
2011ECIRRepresenting Document Lengths with Identifiers.Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Nicola Tonellotto
2011EDBTCaching query-biased snippets for efficient retrieval.Diego Ceccarelli, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2011WWWRecommendations for the long tail by term-query graph.Francesco Bonchi, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Rossano Venturini
2011WWWEfficient diversification of search results using query logs.Gabriele Capannini, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2011WSDMIdentifying task-based sessions in search engine query logs.Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri, Gabriele Tolomei
2010APWEBAn Incremental Prefix Filtering Approach for the All Pairs Similarity Search Problem.Hoang Thanh Lam, Dinh Viet Dung, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2010CIKMVSEncoding: efficient coding and fast decoding of integer lists via dynamic programming.Fabrizio Silvestri, Rossano Venturini
2010HPCCK-Model: A New Computational Model for Stream Processors.Gabriele Capannini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia
2010ICDETowards a task-based search and recommender systems.Gabriele Tolomei, Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Silvestri
2010SPIREIncremental Algorithms for Effective and Efficient Query Recommendation.Daniele Broccolo, Ophir Frieder, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2010SPIREOn Tag Spell Checking.Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Hossein Vahabi, Pedram Vahabi, Ophir Frieder
2009CIKMAging effects on query flow graphs for query suggestion.Ranieri Baraglia, Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Franco Maria Nardini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2009ECIRMining Query Logs.Salvatore Orlando, Fabrizio Silvestri
2009RecSysSearch shortcuts: a new approach to the recommendation of queries.Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Diego Fernndez, Vreixo Formoso, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2009WWWSearch shortcuts: driving users towards their goals.Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vreixo Formoso, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2009SIGIRSorting using BItonic netwoRk wIth CUDA.Gabriele Capannini, Fabrizio Silvestri, Ranieri Baraglia, Franco Maria Nardini
2009WISEEntry Pairing in Inverted File.Hoang Thanh Lam, Raffaele Perego, Quan Thoi Minh Nguyen, Fabrizio Silvestri
2009WSDMSearch shortcuts using click-through data.Ranieri Baraglia, Fidel Cacheda, Victor Carneiro, Vreixo Formoso, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2008ECIREfficiency Issues in Information Retrieval Workshop.Roi Blanco, Fabrizio Silvestri
2008HPDCCollaborative ranking of grid-enabled workflow service providers.Domenico Laforenza, Franco Maria Nardini, Fabrizio Silvestri
2007CBMSBiological Experiments on the Grid: A Novel Workflow Management Platform.Domenico Laforenza, Rosario Lombardo, M. Scarpellini, Massimo Serran, Fabrizio Silvestri, P. Faccioli
2007ECIRSorting Out the Document Identifier Assignment Problem.Fabrizio Silvestri
2007ICDEChallenges on Distributed Web Retrieval.Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Carlos Castillo, Flavio Junqueira, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri
2007SIGIRThe impact of caching on search engines.Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio Junqueira, Vanessa Murdock, Vassilis Plachouras, Fabrizio Silvestri
2007SIGIRKnow your neighbors: web spam detection using the web topology.Carlos Castillo, Debora Donato, Aristides Gionis, Vanessa Murdock, Fabrizio Silvestri
2006CIKMThe query-vector document model.Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri
2006SACA privacy preserving web recommender system.Ranieri Baraglia, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Massimo Serran, Fabrizio Silvestri
2006SACThe social network of Java classes.Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri
2005EuroParA Grid Information Service Based on Peer-to-Peer.Diego Puppin, Stefano Moncelli, Ranieri Baraglia, Nicola Tonellotto, Fabrizio Silvestri
2004CCGRIDAn evaluation of component-based software design approaches.Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Domenico Laforenza
2004EuroParA Highly Scalable Parallel Caching System for Web Search Engine Results.Tiziano Fagni, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2004ICCSWINGS: A Parallel Indexer for Web Contents.Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego
2004SACAssigning document identifiers to enhance compressibility of Web Search Engines indexes.Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego, Salvatore Orlando
2004SIGIRAssigning identifiers to documents to enhance the clustering property of fulltext indexes.Fabrizio Silvestri, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego
2003WWWA Hybrid Strategy for Caching Web Search Engine Results.Fabrizio Silvestri, Tiziano Fagni, Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego
2002EuroParScheduling High Performance Data Mining Tasks on a Data Grid Environment.Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri
2002ICDMAdaptive and Resource-Aware Mining of Frequent Sets.Salvatore Orlando, Paolo Palmerini, Raffaele Perego, Fabrizio Silvestri