AImageLab publications export - 21 publications; author=ssarto

Turri, E., Bucciarelli, D., Sarto, S., Baraldi, L., & Cornia, M. (2026). Few Channels Draw The Whole Picture: Revealing Massive Activations in Diffusion Transformers. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1418989

Compagnoni, A., Morini, M., Sarto, S., Cocchi, F., Caffagni, D., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2026). ReAG: Reasoning-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Denver (CO). https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1396973

Sarto, S. (2026). Multimodal Understanding tramite Retrieval-Augmentation: dai Modelli alla Valutazione. https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1400109

Caffagni, D., Compagnoni, A., Melis, F., Sarto, S., Luigi Dovesi, P., Granroth-Wilding, M., Cornia, M., & Baraldi, L. (2026). Mind the Heads: Topological Representation Alignment for Multimodal LLMs. Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1418988

Caffagni, D., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2026). Recurrence Meets Transformers for Universal Multimodal Retrieval. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2026.3729293

Mattioli, G., Turri, E., Sarto, S., Baraldi, L., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2026). RaTA-Tool: Retrieval-based Tool Selection with Multimodal Large Language Models. International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1400388

Sarto, S., Cornia, M., & Cucchiara, R. (2025). Image Captioning Evaluation in the Age of Multimodal LLMs: Challenges and Future Perspectives. Internationa Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI). https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2025/1180

Cocchi, F., Moratelli, N., Caffagni, D., Sarto, S., Baraldi, L., Cornia, M., & Cucchiara, R. (2025). LLaVA-MORE: A Comparative Study of LLMs and Visual Backbones for Enhanced Visual Instruction Tuning. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops Honolulu, Hawaii. https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1387168

Sarto, S., Moratelli, N., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2025). Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Vision-and-Language Evaluation and Training. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-025-02535-y

Caffagni, D., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2025). Recurrence-Enhanced Vision-and-Language Transformers for Robust Multimodal Document Retrieval. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.00867

Pipoli, V., Bolelli, F., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., Grana, C., Cucchiara, R., & Ficarra, E. (2025). Semantically Conditioned Prompts for Visual Recognition under Missing Modality Scenarios. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). https://doi.org/10.1109/WACV61041.2025.00486

Caffagni, D., Cocchi, F., Moratelli, N., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Wiki-LLaVA: Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multimodal LLMs. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00188

Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). BRIDGE: Bridging Gaps in Image Captioning Evaluation with Stronger Visual Cues. European Conference on Computer Vision Milan. https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1344348

Caffagni, D., Cocchi, F., Barsellotti, L., Moratelli, N., Sarto, S., Baraldi, L., Baraldi, L., Cornia, M., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey. Annual Meeting of the Association-for-Computational-Linguistics (ACL). https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1338749

Poppi, S., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Unlearning Vision Transformers without Retaining Data via Low-Rank Decompositions. International Conference on Pattern Recognition. https://iris.unimore.it/handle/11380/1350486

Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., Nicolosi, A., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Towards Retrieval-Augmented Architectures for Image Captioning. ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS. https://doi.org/10.1145/3663667

Cucchiara, R., Baraldi, L., Cornia, M., & Sarto, S. (2024). Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox?. COMPUTER. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2023.3316696

Poppi, S., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2024). Multi-Class Unlearning for Image Classification via Weight Filtering. IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS. https://doi.org/10.1109/MIS.2024.3412742

Barraco, M., Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2023). With a Little Help from your own Past: Prototypical Memory Networks for Image Captioning. IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.00282

Sarto, S., Barraco, M., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2023). Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation. IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00668

Sarto, S., Cornia, M., Baraldi, L., & Cucchiara, R. (2022). Retrieval-Augmented Transformer for Image Captioning. International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI). https://doi.org/10.1145/3549555.3549585