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Francesco Pinto

14 accepted papers

2026

Evaluating Intuitive Physics Understanding in Video Diffusion Models via Likelihood Preference

ICLR 2026poster

Intuitive physics understanding in video diffusion models plays an essential role in building general-purpose physically plausible world simulators, yet accurately evaluating such capacity remains a challenging task due to the difficulty in disentangling physics correctness from visual appearance in…

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2025

AutoRedTeamer: Autonomous Red Teaming with Lifelong Attack Integration

NeurIPS 2025poster

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable, security and safety evaluation are crucial. While current red teaming approaches have made strides in assessing LLM vulnerabilities, they often rely heavily on human input and lack comprehensive coverage of emerging attack vectors. This pa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Copyright-Protected Language Generation via Adaptive Model Fusion

ICLR 2025oral

The risk of language models reproducing copyrighted material from their training data has led to the development of various protective measures. Among these, inference-time strategies that impose constraints via post-processing have shown promise in addressing the complexities of copyright regulatio…

2025

Focus On This, Not That! Steering LLMs with Adaptive Feature Specification

ICML 2025poster

Despite the success of Instruction Tuning (IT) in training large language models (LLMs), such models often leverage spurious or biased features learnt from their training data and can become misaligned, leading to undesired behaviours. While existing techniques can steer model behaviour at inference…

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2025

MMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness and Safety of Multimodal Foundation Models

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal foundation models (MMFMs) play a crucial role in various applications, including autonomous driving, healthcare, and virtual assistants. However, several studies have revealed vulnerabilities in these models, such as generating unsafe content by text-to-image models. Existing benchmarks o…

2025

SafeWatch: An Efficient Safety-Policy Following Video Guardrail Model with Transparent Explanations

ICLR 2025poster

With the rise of generative AI and rapid growth of high-quality video generation, video guardrails have become more crucial than ever to ensure safety and security across platforms. Current video guardrails, however, are either overly simplistic, relying on pure classification models trained on simp…

2025

Towards Certification of Uncertainty Calibration under Adversarial Attacks

ICLR 2025poster

Since neural classifiers are known to be sensitive to adversarial perturbations that alter their accuracy, certification methods have been developed to provide provable guarantees on the insensitivity of their predictions to such perturbations. On the other hand, in safety-critical applications, the…

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2025

VMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness of Video Foundation Models

NeurIPS 2025poster

As foundation models become more sophisticated, ensuring their trustworthiness becomes increasingly critical; yet, unlike text and image, the video modality still lacks comprehensive trustworthiness benchmarks. We introduce VMDT (Video-Modal DecodingTrust), the first unified platform for evaluating…

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2024

Extracting Training Data From Document-Based VQA Models

ICML 2024poster

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made remarkable progress in document-based Visual Question Answering (i.e., responding to queries about the contents of an input document provided as an image). In this work, we show these models can memorize responses for training samples and regurgitate them even…

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2024

Hidden in Plain Sight: Evaluating Abstract Shape Recognition in Vision-Language Models

NeurIPS 2024poster

Despite the importance of shape perception in human vision, early neural image classifiers relied less on shape information for object recognition than other (often spurious) features. While recent research suggests that current large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) exhibit more reliance on shape, we…

2024

Not Just Pretty Pictures: Toward Interventional Data Augmentation Using Text-to-Image Generators

ICML 2024poster

Neural image classifiers are known to undergo severe performance degradation when exposed to inputs that are sampled from environmental conditions that differ from their training data. Given the recent progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generation, a natural question is how modern T2I generators can be…

2023

Sample-Dependent Adaptive Temperature Scaling for Improved Calibration

AAAI 2023technical

It is now well known that neural networks can be wrong with high confidence in their predictions, leading to poor calibration. The most common post-hoc approach to compensate for this is to perform temperature scaling, which adjusts the confidences of the predictions on any input by scaling the logi…

2022

An Impartial Take to the CNN vs Transformer Robustness Contest

ECCV 2022poster

"Following the surge of popularity of Transformers in Computer Vision, several studies have attempted to determine whether they could be more robust to distribution shifts and provide better uncertainty estimates than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The almost unanimous conclusion is that they…

2022

Using Mixup as a Regularizer Can Surprisingly Improve Accuracy & Out-of-Distribution Robustness

NeurIPS 2022accept

We show that the effectiveness of the well celebrated Mixup can be further improved if instead of using it as the sole learning objective, it is utilized as an additional regularizer to the standard cross-entropy loss. This simple change not only improves accuracy but also significantly improves the…

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