Publications
Journals
- R. Cantini, M. Capalbo, and D. Talia,
“ZEP-NAS: Enabling green-aware model design via zero-cost emission proxy in neural architecture search”, Array, p. 100566, 2025.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Dynamic hashtag recommendation in social media with trend shift detection and adaptation”, Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2025.
- R. Cantini, A. Orsino, M. Ruggiero, and D. Talia, “Benchmarking adversarial robustness to bias elicitation in large language models: scalable automated assessment with llm-as-a-judge”, Machine Learning, vol. 114, no. 11, p. 249, 2025.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Detecting mental disorder on social media: a ChatGPT-augmented explainable approach”, Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 48, p. 100321, 2025.
- R. Cantini, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Harnessing prompt-based large language models for disaster monitoring and automated reporting from social media feedback”, Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 45, p. 100295, 2025.
- R. Cantini, C. Cosentino, I. Kilanioti, F. Marozzo, and D. Talia, “Unmasking deception: a topic-oriented multimodal approach to uncover false information on social media”, Machine Learning, vol. 114, no. 1, p. 13, 2025.
- R. Cantini, A. Orsino, and D. Talia, “Xai-driven knowledge distillation of large language models for efficient deployment on low-resource devices”, Journal of Big Data, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, et al., “Block size estimation for data partitioning in hpc applications using machine learning techniques”, Journal of Big Data, vol. 11, no. 1, 2024.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Programming big data analysis: principles and solutions”, Journal of Big Data, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Analyzing political polarization on social media by deleting bot spamming”, Big Data and Cognitive Computing, vol. 6, no. 1, 2022.
- L. Belcastro, F. Branda, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Analyzing voter behavior on social media during the 2020 us presidential election campaign”, Social Network Analysis and Mining, vol. 12, no. 1, 2022.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, and F. Marozzo, “Knowledge discovery from large amounts of social media data”, Applied Sciences, vol. 12, no. 3, 2022.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, G. Bruno, and P. Trunfio, “Learning sentence-to-hashtags semantic mapping for hashtag recommendation on microblogs”, ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD), vol. 16, no. 2, 2021.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, S. Mazza, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “A weighted artificial bee colony algorithm for influence maximization”, Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 26, p. 100167, 2021.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Exploiting machine learning for improving in-memory execution of data-intensive workflows on parallel machines”, Future Internet, vol. 13, no. 5, 2021.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Learning political polarization on social media using neural networks”, IEEE Access, vol. 8, 2020.
Conferences
- R. Cantini, C. Cosentino, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Neural topic modeling in social media by clustering latent hashtag representations”, in European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2025.
- R. Cantini, G. Cosenza, A. Orsino, and D. Talia, “Are large language models really bias-free? jailbreak prompts for assessing adversarial robustness to bias elicitation”, in Discovery Science, 2024.
- R. Cantini, C. Cosentino, and F. Marozzo, “Multi-dimensional classification on social media data for detailed reporting with large language models”, in Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI), 2024.
- R. Cantini, C. Cosentino, I. Kilanioti, F. Marozzo, and D. Talia, “Unmasking covid-19 false information on twitter: a topic-based approach with bert”, in Discovery Science, 2023.
- R. Cantini and F. Marozzo, “Topic detection and tracking in social media platforms”, in Pervasive Knowledge and Collective Intelligence on Web and Social Media (PerSoM), 2023.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, M. Passarelli, and P. Trunfio, “A visual tool for reducing returns in e-commerce platforms”, in IEEE 6th International Forum on Research and Technology for Society and Industry (RTSI), 2021.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Discovering political polarization on social media: a case study”, in 15th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge and Grids (SKG), 2019.
Workshops
- R. Cantini, N. Gabriele, A. Orsino, and D. Talia, “Is reasoning all you need? probing bias in the age of reasoning language models”, AEQUITAS Workshop on Fairness and Bias in AI (ECAI), 2025.
- R. Cantini, N. Gabriele, and A. Orsino, “A parameter-efficient approach to distilling large language models via meta-learning”, in European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems (ADBIS), 2025.
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, A. Orsino, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Advancing green and fair ai: a research perspective on environmental and social sustainability”, Ital-IA, 2025.
- R. Cantini, D. M. Longo, and D. Thakur, “Preface to the proceedings of green-aware ai 2024”, Green-Aware AI (AIxIA), 2024.
- R. Cantini, A. Orsino, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Towards interpretable energy estimation for edge ai applications”, International Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services (IPDPS), 2025.
- P. Lindia, R. Cantini, F. Bettucci, L. Sartori, and P. Trunfio, “Enhancing the evaluation of fault detection models in smart agriculture using llm agents for rule-based anomaly generation”, Green-Aware AI (AIxIA), 2024.
Books
- D. Talia, P. Trunfio, F. Marozzo, L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, and A. Orsino, “Programming big data applications: scalable tools and frameworks for your needs”, World Scientific, 2023.
Chapters
- L. Belcastro, R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, D. Talia, and P. Trunfio, “Shedding light inside the black box: techniques for explainable artificial intelligence in healthcare”, in Explainable Machine Intelligence in Healthcare, 2025.
- R. Cantini, F. Marozzo, and A. Orsino, “Deep learning meets smart agriculture: using lstm networks to handle anomalous and missing sensor data in the compute continuum”, in Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum, 2023.
- A. Orsino, R. Cantini, and F. Marozzo, “Evaluating the performance of a multimodal speaker tracking system at the edge-to-cloud continuum”, in Device-Edge-Cloud Continuum, 2023.