Scientific Papers

• • Nudo, J., Pandolfo, M. E., Loru, E., Samory, M., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2026). Generative exaggeration in LLM social agents: Consistency, bias, and toxicity. Online Social Networks and Media, 51, 100344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2025.100344 

  • Loru, E., Nudo, J., Di Marco, N., Santirocchi, A., Atzeni, R., Cinelli, M., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2025). The simulation of judgment in LLMs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(42), e2518443122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2518443122 

  • Loru, E., Galeazzi, A., Bonetti, A., Sangiorgio, E., Di Marco, N., Cinelli, M., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2025). Ideology and polarization set the agenda on social media. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 35816. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19776-z 

  • Storani, S., Falkenberg, M., Quattrociocchi, W., & Cinelli, M. (2025). Relative engagement with sources of climate misinformation is growing across social media platforms. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 18629. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-03082-9 

  • Loru, E., Di Marco, N., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2025). A Compression-Based Approach to Detecting Automated and Coordinated Behavior on Social Media. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3778356 

  • Zini, L., Frigieri, E., Aloscari, S., & Baraldi, L. (2025). vHector and HeisenVec: Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Through Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the 39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. URL: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=diYaFg8pqm 

  • Compagnoni, A., Caffagni, D., Moratelli, N., Baraldi, L., Cornia, M., & Cucchiara, R. (2025). Mitigating hallucinations in multimodal llms via object-aware preference optimization. In BMVC 2025. URL: https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2025/assets/papers/Paper_666/paper.pdf 

  • Zini, L., Frigieri, E., Aloscari, S., Generali, M., Dodi, L., Dosen, R., & Baraldi, L. (2025). SVGauge: Towards Human-Aligned Evaluation for SVG Generation. In ICIAP 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10185-3_15 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., Serra, G. (2026). Hierarchical Vision-Language Retrieval of Educational Metaverse Content in Agriculture. In ICIAP 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-10192-1_2 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2025). Searching agricultural learning experiences in the metaverse via textual and visual queries within the agrimus project. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 26(4), 1-11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00799-025-00433-9

  • Falcon, A., Abdari, A., & Serra, G. (2025). ALCER3D: Adaptive Learning Constraints for Enhanced Retrieval of Complex Indoor 3D Scenarios. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2025.3613176 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., Serra, G., & Huang, Q. (2025, June). Reproducibility Companion Paper: AdOCTeRA--Adaptive Optimization Constraints for Improved text-guided Retrieval of Apartments. In Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (pp. 1958-1960). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3731715.3734535 

  • Macrì, G., Bazzana, L., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2025, June). HM3: Hierarchical Modeling of Multimedia Metaverses on 10000 Thematic Museums via Theme-aware Contrastive Loss Function. In Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (pp. 1009-1017). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3731715.3733358 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2025). AgriMus: Developing Museums in the Metaverse for Agricultural Education. In IRCDL 2025. URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3937/paper16.pdf 

  • Falcon, A., Abdari, A., & Serra, G. (2025, January). HierArtEx: Hierarchical Representations and Art Experts Supporting the Retrieval of Museums in the Metaverse. In International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (pp. 60-73). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2061-6_5 

  • Di Marco, N., Loru, E., Bonetti, A., Serra, A. O. G., Cinelli, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Patterns of linguistic simplification on social media platforms over time. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(50), e2412105121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2412105121 

  • Loru, E., Cinelli, M., Tesconi, M., & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). The influence of coordinated behavior on toxicity. Online Social Networks and Media, 43, 100289. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2024.100289 

  • Moratelli, N., Barraco, M., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Are Learnable Prompts the Right Way of Prompting? Adapting Vision-and-Language Models with Memory Optimization. IEEE Intelligent Systems. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2024.3386099 

  • Moratelli, N., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Fluent and Accurate Image Captioning with a Self-Trained Reward Model. In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-78456-9_14 

  • Moratelli, N., Caffagni, D., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based Optimization. In Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference. URL: https://bmva-archive.org.uk/bmvc/2024/papers/Paper_754/paper.pdf 

  • Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). BRIDGE: Bridging Gaps in Image Captioning Evaluation with Stronger Visual Cues. In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-73229-4_5 

  • Avalle, M., Di Marco, N., Etta, G., Sangiorgio, E., Alipour, S., Bonetti, A., ... & Quattrociocchi, W. (2024). Persistent interaction patterns across social media platforms and over time. Nature, 628(8008), 582-589. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07229-y 

  • Falcon, A., Serra, G., & Lanz, O. (2024). Improving semantic video retrieval models by training with a relevance-aware online mining strategy. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 245, 104035. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2024.104035 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2024, May). AdOCTeRA: Adaptive Optimization Constraints for improved Text-guided Retrieval of Apartments. In Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (pp. 1043-1050). DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1145/3652583.3658039 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2024, January). A Language-based solution to enable Metaverse Retrieval. In International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (pp. 477-488). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53311-2_35 

  • Serra, G., Portelli, B., Scaboro, S., & Chersoni, E. (2024). A perspective on Artificial Intelligence for digital pharmacovigilance in pandemics. In Innovating Health Against Future Pandemics (pp. 59-68). Academic Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-13681-8.00003-5 

  • Falcon, A., Portelli, B., Abdari, A., & Serra, G. (2024). Paving the Way for Personalized Museums Tours in the Metaverse. In IRCDL 2024 (pp. 178-188). URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3643/paper17.pdf 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2023, November). Metaverse Retrieval: Finding the Best Metaverse Environment via Language. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Deep Multimodal Learning for Information Retrieval (pp. 1-9). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3606040.3617445 

  • Abdari, A., Falcon, A., & Serra, G. (2023). FArMARe: a Furniture-Aware Multi-task methodology for Recommending Apartments based on the user interests. In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 4293-4303). URL: https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2023W/CV4Metaverse/papers/Abdari_FArMARe_a_Furniture-Aware_Multi-Task_Methodology_for_Recommending_Apartments_Based_on_ICCVW_2023_paper.pdf