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Davide Caffagni

Homepage:

https://github.com/dcaffo98

Position at AImageLab:

PhD Student
Dipartimento d'Ingegneria "Enzo Ferrari", Modena Italy

Email:

davide_DOT_caffagni_AT_unimore_DOT_it

Davide Caffagni


Research Projects


Research Activities


Publications

1 Compagnoni, Alberto; Caffagni, Davide; Moratelli, Nicholas; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal LLMs via Object-aware Preference Optimization" Proceedings of the 36th British Machine Vision Conference, Sheffield, UK, 24th - 27th November 2025, 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; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Augmenting and Mixing Transformers with Synthetic Data for Image Captioning" IMAGE AND VISION COMPUTING, pp. 1 -31 , 2025 Journal
4 Caffagni, Davide; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Nashville TN, June 11th - June 15th, 2025 Conference
5 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
6 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
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 Caffagni, Davide; Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "SynthCap: Augmenting Transformers with Synthetic Data for Image Captioning" Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 14233, Udine, Italy, pp. 112 -123 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_10 Conference