Federico Cocchi

Federico Cocchi is a national PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence program coordinated by the University of Pisa. He is based in Modena at the AImageLab.

Federico obtained his Master's degree in Computer Engineering - AI from UNIMORE and his Bachelor's degree in Automation Engineering from UNIBO.

Keywords: multimodal AI – DeepFakes – generative AI

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Research Projects

• Italian Strengthening of Esfri RI Resilience (ITSERR)
• European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI
• Future Artificial Intelligence Research

Research Activities

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	Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Mambelli, Anna; Tutrone, Fabio; Zanella, Marco; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Generating Synthetic Data with Large Language Models for Low-Resource Sentence Retrieval" Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries, Tampere, Finland, September 23-26, 2025 Conference
3	Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Mambelli, Anna; Tutrone, Fabio; Zanella, Marco; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Benchmarking BERT-based Models for Latin: A Case Study on Biblical References in Ancient Christian Literature" Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science, IRCDL 2025, vol. 3937, Udine, Italy, February 20-21, 2025 Conference
4	Cappelletti, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Adapt to Scarcity: Few-Shot Deepfake Detection via Low-Rank Adaptation" Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024, 2024 Conference
5	Poppi, Samuele; Poppi, Tobia; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Safe-CLIP: Removing NSFW Concepts from Vision-and-Language Models" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference
6	Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Nicolosi, Alessandro; Cucchiara, Rita "Contrasting Deepfakes Diffusion via Contrastive Learning and Global-Local Similarities" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference
7	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" FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 13590 -13618 , August 11–16, 2024, 2024 Conference
8	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
9	Cocchi, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Poppi, Samuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Unveiling the Impact of Image Transformations on Deepfake Detection: An Experimental Analysis" IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, ICIAP 2023, PT II, vol. 14234, Udine, Italy, pp. 345 -356 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43153-1_29 Conference