[PDF][PDF] CALAMITA: Challenge the Abilities of LAnguage Models in ITAlian

G Attanasio, P Basile, F Borazio, D Croce… - Proceedings of the 10th …, 2024 - ceur-ws.org
The rapid development of Large Language Models (LLMs) has called for robust benchmarks
to assess their abilities, track progress, and compare iterations. While existing benchmarks …

Revisiting recommender systems: an investigative survey

OAS Ibrahim, EMG Younis, EA Mohamed… - Neural Computing and …, 2025 - Springer
This paper provides a thorough review of recommendation methods from academic
literature, offering a taxonomy that classifies recommender systems (RSs) into categories …

ITA-Bench: Towards a more comprehensive evaluation for Italian LLMs

L Moroni, S Conia, F Martelli, R Navigli - Proceedings of the Tenth …, 2024 - iris.uniroma1.it
Abstract Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive performance in
addressing complex aspects of human language. These models have also demonstrated …

Minerva LLMs: The first family of Large Language Models trained from scratch on Italian data

R Orlando, L Moroni, PLH Cabot, E Barba… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - iris.uniroma1.it
The growing interest in Large Language Models (LLMs) has accelerated research efforts to
adapt these models for various languages. Despite this, pretraining LLMs from scratch for …

The Invalsi Benchmarks: measuring the Linguistic and Mathematical understanding of Large Language Models in Italian

G Puccetti, M Cassese, A Esuli - Proceedings of the 31st …, 2025 - aclanthology.org
While Italian is a high-resource language, there are few Italian-native benchmarks to
evaluate generative Large Language Models (LLMs) in this language. This work presents …

Bridging the Gap: Enhancing LLM Performance for Low-Resource African Languages with New Benchmarks, Fine-Tuning, and Cultural Adjustments

T Alhanai, A Kasumovic, M Ghassemi… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable performance across various tasks,
yet significant disparities remain for non-English languages, and especially native African …

A gentle push funziona benissimo: making instructed models in Italian via contrastive activation steering

D Scalena, E Fersini, M Nissim - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.18247, 2024 - arxiv.org
Adapting models to a language that was only partially present in the pre-training data
requires fine-tuning, which is expensive in terms of both data and computational resources …

[PDF][PDF] Adapting a Large Language Model to the Legal Domain: A Case Study in Italian

F Valerio, P Basile, M de Gemmis - … of the Eighth Workshop on Natural …, 2024 - ceur-ws.org
This work presents a methodology for adapting an open Large Language Model (LLM) to
the Italian legal domain. We construct a legal document corpus from the Normattiva website …

11th Joint Workshop on Interfaces and Human Decision Making for Recommender Systems (IntRS'24)

P Brusilovsky, M De Gemmis, A Felfernig… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
The primary goal of Recommender Systems is to suggest the most suitable items to a user,
aligning them with the user's interests and needs. RSs are essential for modern e …

Unipa-GPT: Large Language Models for university-oriented QA in Italian

I Siragusa, R Pirrone - arxiv preprint arxiv:2407.14246, 2024 - arxiv.org
This paper illustrates the architecture and training of Unipa-GPT, a chatbot relying on a
Large Language Model, developed for assisting students in choosing a bachelor/master …