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FBK - NLP Research Group
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#NLP Research Unit at @ Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Site: https://nlplab.fbk.eu
#NLProc
🚀 Big news from #CLiCit2025!
Our PhD student Davide Testa presented MAIA 🎞️🧠🇮🇹 — the first Italian benchmark to test Vision-Language Models on multimodal reasoning & robustness.
📄 You can check the Paper in the CLiC-it pre-processing: clic2025.unica.it/wp-content/u...

#AI #NLProc #VLMs
September 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🎉Congrats to our PhD student Sofia Brenna for presenting her poster at #SigDIAL2025 in Avignon 🇫🇷 about "Investigating Proactivity in Task-Oriented Dialogues", recently published in Dialogue & Discours journal.

Paper here: journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.ph...

#NLProc
September 9, 2025 at 9:12 AM
🎉 Thrilled to share that our paper “All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark” has been accepted at the EMNLP 2025 conference! 🔥

📄 Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.16989

See you in Suzhou next November!!! 🇨🇳🚀
#EMNLP2025 #NLP #Multimodality
All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark
We introduce MAIA (Multimodal AI Assessment), a native-Italian benchmark designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of visual language models on videos. MAIA differs from other...
arxiv.org
September 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
🚀 Can Vision-Language Models plan effectively?

We introduce ViPlan, a benchmark comparing:
🔹 VLM-as-planner
🔹 VLM-as-grounder

🏠 Home robotics
🧱 Visual Blocksworld

Spoiler alert:❌ Visual-Reasoning

📍 Pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2505.13180

#VLM #AI #NLProc
May 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
🚀 Exciting News! The Evalita-LLM Leaderboard is now live on Hugging Face! Explore the performance of over 40 Large Language Models on native Italian tasks. Dive in here: huggingface.co/spaces/evali...

@FondazioneBrunoKessler
@igenius
@diunito.bsky.social

#NLProc #LLM #AI #Italian #Benchmarking
Evalita Llm Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by evalitahf
Duplicate this leaderboard to initialize your own!
huggingface.co
April 8, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Don't miss out ‼️ Join us at Wired Health 2025 #WH25💭 Our Head Unit, Bernardo Magnini will take the stage to discuss "Artificial Intelligence and Clinical Data: The Future of Emergency Medicine." 🔥
Full program here: lnkd.in/eKi44biT
@wired.com

#AI #healthcare #Innovation
March 13, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Welcome to MAIA! 🚀 Our new benchmark for evaluating multimodal reasoning in Vision-LMs on videos fully in Italian! 🇮🇹 MAIA tests understanding & generation with fine-grained reasoning categories and a brand-new evaluation metric! 🔎🔥Discover MAIA here: arxiv.org/abs/2502.16989
#NLProc #evaluation #AI
All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark
We introduce MAIA (Multimodal AI Assessment), a native-Italian benchmark designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of visual language models on videos. MAIA differs from other...
arxiv.org
February 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚀 **Exciting News!** 🎉 Evalita-LLM is here! 🇮🇹 A new benchmark for evaluating LLMs—offering native Italian tasks, generative challenges, and fair multi-prompt evaluations. Now also available in lm-evaluation harness by @eleutherai.bsky.social !
ArXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.02289
#NLProc #LLM #Evaluation
Evalita-LLM: Benchmarking Large Language Models on Italian
We describe Evalita-LLM, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) on Italian tasks. The distinguishing and innovative features of Evalita-LLM are the following: (i) all tasks ...
arxiv.org
February 24, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Our group leader took the stage at the FBK plenary session to showcase our research interests, ongoing projects, challenges and future plans. An exciting moment to share our vision and push the boundaries of NLP even further!
Here’s a glimpse of the event! 📸✨
#NLProc #AI #Research #FBK #Innovation
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
A big congratulations to Sofia Lugli, student of our Carlo Strapparava, for receiving a special mention for her thesis at
CLiC-it conference 2 weeks ago! 🎉👏
We are incredibly proud of her achievement. Can’t wait to see what she accomplishes next. Well done Sofia!🌟
#NLP #AI @ailc-nlp.bsky.social
December 20, 2024 at 9:44 AM
🚀 #CALAMITA has officially kicked off - and we’re on board!
Fondazione Bruno Kessler proudly participated in this 1st #evaluation #campaign for #LLMs with our Andrea Zaninello together with @fbk-mt.bsky.social group!🤖
Here some pictures of our calamitici!🧲
See u next year 4 other challenges! 🔥🔍
December 19, 2024 at 1:42 PM
Exciting news! 🎉 If you’re curious about the opening #tutorial at CLiC-it 2024 conference made by our group on processing #data for #training and #evaluating #LLMs , here’s your chance! 📊 Explore the slides and get inspired!!! 🚀🔍✨
docs.google.com/presentation...
@ailc-nlp.bsky.social
Data-LLM-Tutorial
You Are what You Eat Processing Data for Training and Evaluating LLMs Giovanni Bonetta and Bernardo Magnini Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy {gbonetta|magnini}@fbk.eu Tutorial at CLiC-it 2024, ...
docs.google.com
December 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Here are our group leader Bernardo Magnini and postdoc
Giovanni Bonetta kicking off CLiC-it conference in #Pisa 2 weeks ago as invited speakers with an insightful #tutorial on #data: how to collect and use it for various purposes in #AI and #NLP !💡🔍
Thanks to @ailc-nlp.bsky.social for inviting us!✨
December 17, 2024 at 10:37 AM
#NLP Research group in action! Our group leader Bernardo Magnini, alongside @tizaino.bsky.social, Sofia Brenna, and Giovanni Bonetta, presenting their #paper "Are you a Good Assistant? Assessing LLM Trustability in Task-oriented Dialogues" at CLiC-it '24 #Pisa 🔍✨
@ailc-nlp.bsky.social
#NLProc #AI
December 16, 2024 at 9:05 AM
What a conference! 🎉 CLiC-it in #Pisa was truly special! Returning to where it all began a decade ago! ❤️
Our group was honored to participate, share ideas and connect with such an inspiring community.
Here are some highlights from the conference!!!📸✨
#CLiCit2024 #NLP #AI @ailc-nlp.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 8:26 AM
🎄✨ Happy Holidays from our Research Center! ✨🎄

Our director @ferruccioresta shares a warm holiday message with all @FBK_research: gratitude for a year of outstanding achievements and best wishes for a joyful festive season and a 2025 filled with groundbreaking discoveries!
December 11, 2024 at 11:25 PM