Nicholas Moratelli

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Research Projects

• Future Artificial Intelligence Research

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Research Activities

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Publications

1	Cocchi, Federico; Moratelli, Nicholas; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Augmenting Multimodal LLMs with Self-Reflective Tokens for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Nashville TN, June 11th - June 15th, 2025 Conference
2	Parascandolo, Fiorenzo; Moratelli, Nicholas; Sangineto, Enver; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Causal Graphical Models for Vision-Language Compositional Understanding" Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Learning Representations, Singapore, Apr 24 - Apr 28th, 2025, 2025 Conference
3	Moratelli, Nicholas; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Fluent and Accurate Image Captioning with a Self-Trained Reward Model" Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024, 2024 Conference
4	Moratelli, Nicholas; Caffagni, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based Optimization" Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference, Glasgow, UK, 25th - 28th November 2024, 2024 Conference
5	Bucciarelli, Davide; Moratelli, Nicholas; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Personalizing Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Captioning: An Experimental Analysis" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference
6	Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Barsellotti, Luca; Moratelli, Nicholas; Sarto, Sara; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey" Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 13590 -13618 , August 11–16, 2024, 2024 Conference
7	Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Moratelli, Nicholas; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Wiki-LLaVA: Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multimodal LLMs" Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2024, Seattle, USA, pp. 1818 -1826 , Jun 17-21 2024, 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00188 Conference
8	Moratelli, Nicholas; Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Are Learnable Prompts the Right Way of Prompting? Adapting Vision-and-Language Models with Memory Optimization" IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, vol. 39, pp. 26 -34 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2024.3386099 Journal
9	Moratelli, Nicholas; Barraco, Manuele; Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Fashion-Oriented Image Captioning with External Knowledge Retrieval and Fully Attentive Gates" SENSORS, vol. 23, pp. 1 -16 , 2023 | DOI: 10.3390/s23031286 Journal

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