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Bruno Lepri

15 accepted papers

2026

Don’t Stop the Multi-Party! On Generating Synthetic Written Multi-Party Conversations with Constraints

AAAI 2026technical

Written Multi-Party Conversations (WMPCs) are widely studied across disciplines, with social media as a primary data source due to their accessibility. However, these datasets raise privacy concerns and often reflect platform-specific properties. For example, interactions between speakers may be li

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2026

GNN Explanations that do not Explain and How to find Them

ICLR 2026poster

Explanations provided by Self-explainable Graph Neural Networks (SE-GNNs) are fundamental for understanding the model's inner workings and for identifying potential misuse of sensitive attributes. Although recent works have highlighted that these explanations can be suboptimal and potentially mislea…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

On Universality of Deep Equivariant Networks

ICLR 2026poster

Universality results for equivariant neural networks remain rare. Those that do exist typically hold only in restrictive settings: either they rely on regular or higher-order tensor representations, leading to impractically high-dimensional hidden spaces, or they target specialized architectures, of…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

PoInit-of-View: Poisoning Initialization of Views Transfers Across Multiple 3D Reconstruction Systems

CVPR 2026

Poisoning input views of 3D reconstruction systems has been recently studied. However, existing studies simply backpropagate adversarial gradients through the 3D reconstruction pipeline as a whole, without uncovering the new vulnerability rooted in specific modules of the pipeline. In this paper, we

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2026

Rethinking GNNs and Missing Features: Challenges, Evaluation and a Robust Solution

ICML 2026poster

Handling missing node features is a key challenge for deploying Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) in real-world domains such as healthcare and sensor networks. Existing studies mostly address relatively benign scenarios, namely benchmark datasets with (a) high-dimensional but sparse node features and (b)…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Bridging Theory and Practice in Link Representation with Graph Neural Networks

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are widely used to compute representations of node pairs for downstream tasks such as link prediction. Yet, theoretical understanding of their expressive power has focused almost entirely on graph-level representations. In this work, we shift the focus to links and provi…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

SMoSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks

AAAI 2025technical

Continuous control tasks often involve high-dimensional, dynamic, and non-linear environments. State-of-the-art performance in these tasks is achieved through complex closed-box policies that are effective, but suffer from an inherent opacity. Interpretable policies, while generally underperforming…

2024

A Characterization Theorem for Equivariant Networks with Point-wise Activations

ICLR 2024poster

Equivariant neural networks have shown improved performance, expressiveness and sample complexity on symmetrical domains. But for some specific symmetries, representations, and choice of coordinates, the most common point-wise activations, such as ReLU, are not equivariant, hence they cannot be emp…

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2024

Do LLMs suffer from Multi-Party Hangover? A Diagnostic Approach to Addressee Recognition and Response Selection in Conversations

EMNLP 2024main

Assessing the performance of systems to classify Multi-Party Conversations (MPC) is challenging due to the interconnection between linguistic and structural characteristics of conversations. Conventional evaluation methods often overlook variances in model behavior across different levels of structu…

2021

Click To Move: Controlling Video Generation With Sparse Motion

ICCV 2021poster

This paper introduces Click to Move (C2M), a novel framework for video generation where the user can control the motion of the synthesized video through mouse clicks specifying simple object trajectories of the key objects in the scene. Our model receives as input an initial frame, its corresponding…

Cited by 14PDFcodeScholar
2021

Efficient Training of Visual Transformers with Small Datasets

NeurIPS 2021poster

Visual Transformers (VTs) are emerging as an architectural paradigm alternative to Convolutional networks (CNNs). Differently from CNNs, VTs can capture global relations between image elements and they potentially have a larger representation capacity. However, the lack of the typical convolutional…

2021

Smoothing the Disentangled Latent Style Space for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation

CVPR 2021poster

Image-to-Image (I2I) multi-domain translation models are usually evaluated also using the quality of their semantic interpolation results. However, state-of-the-art models frequently show abrupt changes in the image appearance during interpolation, and usually perform poorly in interpolations across…

Cited by 58PDFScholar
2019

Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management

ICRA 2019poster

Modern cities are growing ecosystems that face new challenges due to the increasing population demands. One of the many problems they face nowadays is waste management, which has become a pressing issue requiring new solutions. Swarm robotics systems have been attracting an increasing amount of atte…

Cited by 60SourceScholar