1 code implementation • 26 May 2025 • Alkis Koudounas, Moreno La Quatra, Gabriele Ciravegna, Marco Fantini, Erika Crosetti, Giovanni Succo, Tania Cerquitelli, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Elena Baralis
Voice disorders significantly impact patient quality of life, yet non-invasive automated diagnosis remains under-explored due to both the scarcity of pathological voice data, and the variability in recording sources.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2025 • Alkis Koudounas, Moreno La Quatra, Eliana Pastor, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi, Elena Baralis
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to traditional neural architectures, yet their application to speech processing remains under explored.
no code implementations • 26 May 2025 • Alkis Koudounas, Moreno La Quatra, Elena Baralis
Recent advances in conversational AI have demonstrated impressive capabilities in single-turn responses, yet multi-turn dialogues remain challenging for even the most sophisticated language models.
1 code implementation • 21 May 2025 • Alkis Koudounas, Claudio Savelli, Flavio Giobergia, Elena Baralis
Machine unlearning, the process of efficiently removing specific information from machine learning models, is a growing area of interest for responsible AI.
1 code implementation • 22 Feb 2025 • Alkis Koudounas, Moreno La Quatra, Marco Sabato Siniscalchi, Elena Baralis
In this work, we aim to overcome the above shortcoming and propose a novel foundation model, termed voc2vec, specifically designed for non-verbal human data leveraging exclusively open-source non-verbal audio datasets.
1 code implementation • 26 Aug 2024 • Flavio Giobergia, Eliana Pastor, Luca de Alfaro, Elena Baralis
Concept drift is a common phenomenon in data streams where the statistical properties of the target variable change over time.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2024 • Flavio Giobergia, Eliana Pastor, Luca de Alfaro, Elena Baralis
The ability to detect and adapt to changes in data distributions is crucial to maintain the accuracy and reliability of machine learning models.
1 code implementation • 13 Aug 2024 • Daniele Rege Cambrin, Eleonora Poeta, Eliana Pastor, Tania Cerquitelli, Elena Baralis, Paolo Garza
This paper analyzes the integration of KAN layers into the U-Net architecture (U-KAN) to segment crop fields using Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 satellite images and provides an analysis of the performance and explainability of these networks.
1 code implementation • 22 Jun 2024 • Moreno La Quatra, Alkis Koudounas, Elena Baralis, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi
We leverage self-supervised learning models to tackle this task and analyze differences and similarities between Italy's regional languages.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2024 • Eleonora Poeta, Flavio Giobergia, Eliana Pastor, Tania Cerquitelli, Elena Baralis
Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have very recently been introduced into the world of machine learning, quickly capturing the attention of the entire community.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2024 • Alkis Koudounas, Gabriele Ciravegna, Marco Fantini, Giovanni Succo, Erika Crosetti, Tania Cerquitelli, Elena Baralis
Voice disorders are pathologies significantly affecting patient quality of life.
1 code implementation • 20 Jun 2024 • Alkis Koudounas, Flavio Giobergia, Eliana Pastor, Elena Baralis
Speech models may be affected by performance imbalance in different population subgroups, raising concerns about fair treatment across these groups.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2024 • Moreno La Quatra, Alkis Koudounas, Lorenzo Vaiani, Elena Baralis, Luca Cagliero, Paolo Garza, Sabato Marco Siniscalchi
Limited diversity in standardized benchmarks for evaluating audio representation learning (ARL) methods may hinder systematic comparison of current methods' capabilities.
no code implementations • 20 Dec 2023 • Eleonora Poeta, Gabriele Ciravegna, Eliana Pastor, Tania Cerquitelli, Elena Baralis
The field of explainable artificial intelligence emerged in response to the growing need for more transparent and reliable models.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2023 • Flavio Giobergia, Alkis Koudounas, Elena Baralis
Exploring exoplanets has transformed our understanding of the universe by revealing many planetary systems that defy our current understanding.
1 code implementation • 14 Sep 2023 • Eliana Pastor, Alkis Koudounas, Giuseppe Attanasio, Dirk Hovy, Elena Baralis
Existing work focuses on a few spoken language understanding (SLU) tasks, and explanations are difficult to interpret for most users.
1 code implementation • 14 Jun 2023 • Alkis Koudounas, Moreno La Quatra, Lorenzo Vaiani, Luca Colomba, Giuseppe Attanasio, Eliana Pastor, Luca Cagliero, Elena Baralis
Recent large-scale Spoken Language Understanding datasets focus predominantly on English and do not account for language-specific phenomena such as particular phonemes or words in different lects.
1 code implementation • Findings (ACL) 2022 • Giuseppe Attanasio, Debora Nozza, Dirk Hovy, Elena Baralis
EAR also reveals overfitting terms, i. e., terms most likely to induce bias, to help identify their effect on the model, task, and predictions.
1 code implementation • Applied Sciences 2021 • Simone Monaco, Salvatore Greco, Alessandro Farasin, Luca Colomba, Daniele Apiletti, Paolo Garza, Tania Cerquitelli, Elena Baralis
In this context, we analyze the burned area severity estimation problem by exploiting a state-of-the-art deep learning framework.
no code implementations • 17 Aug 2021 • Eliana Pastor, Luca de Alfaro, Elena Baralis
Furthermore, we quantify the contribution of all attributes in the data subgroup to the divergent behavior by means of Shapley values, thus allowing the identification of the most impacting attributes.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2019 • Tania Cerquitelli, Stefano Proto, Francesco Ventura, Daniele Apiletti, Elena Baralis
To this aim, suitable automatic solutions to self-assess the prediction quality and the data distribution drift between the original training set and the new data have to be devised.
1 code implementation • IEEE AIKE 2019 • Andrea Pasini, Elena Baralis
This paper presents a semantic anomaly detection method (SAD) to detect anomalies in the predictions of any pixelwise semantic segmentation algorithm.
1 code implementation • 10 May 2018 • Luca Venturini, Elena Baralis, Paolo Garza
DAC exploits ensemble learning to distribute the training of an associative classifier among parallel workers and improve the final quality of the model.