Gabriele Ciravegna

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4since 2021 · last 2025
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Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery · 4 (2 first)
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Beyond Input Attribution: A Hands-On Tutorial to Concept-Based Explainable AI and Mechanistic Interpretability
abstract
As deep learning systems become pervasive, the demand for trustworthy and transparent AI continues to grow. Traditional feature attribution methods, however, often lack robustness and alignment with human reasoning. This tutorial moves beyond feature attribution by introducing participants to two complementary interpretability paradigms: Concept-Based Explainable AI (C-XAI) and Mechanistic Interpretability. C-XAI provides explanations grounded in high-level, human-interpretable concepts, bridging the gap between model reasoning and human understanding. In parallel, mechanistic interpretability--a quickly emerging field--focuses on reverse-engineering neural networks to uncover and disentangle the internal mechanisms that give rise to human-understandable representations. Through interactive coding sessions and hands-on exercises, attendees will gain practical experience implementing, evaluating, and comparing a variety of C-XAI and mechanistic interpretability techniques. By the end of the tutorial, participants will be equipped with a modern interpretability toolbox and a deeper understanding of how to apply them in real-world scenarios.
Eliana Pastor, Eleonora Poeta, André Panisson, Alan Perotti, Gabriele Ciravegna
KDD (2)5
2025 Towards Better Generalization and Interpretability in Unsupervised Concept-Based Models
Francesco De Santis, Philippe Bich, Gabriele Ciravegna, Pietro Barbiero, Tania Cerquitelli, Danilo Giordano
ECML/PKDD (3)3
2024 Workshop on Human-Interpretable AI
abstract
This workshop aims to spearhead research on Human-Interpretable Artificial Intelligence (HI-AI) by providing: (i) a general overview of the key aspects of HI-AI, in order to equip all researchers with the necessary background and set of definitions; (ii) novel and interesting ideas coming from both invited talks and top paper contributions; (iii) the chance to engage in dialogue with prominent scientists during poster presentations and coffee breaks. The workshop welcomes contributions covering novel interpretable-by-design or post-hoc approaches, as well as theoretical analysis of existing works. Additionally, we accept visionary contributions speculating on the future potential of this field. Finally, we welcome contributions from related fields such as Ethical AI, Knowledge-driven Machine learning, Human-machine Interaction, but also applications in Medicine and Industry, and analyses from Regulatory experts.
Gabriele Ciravegna, Mateo Espinosa Zarlenga, Pietro Barbiero, Francesco Giannini, Zohreh Shams, Damien Garreau, Mateja Jamnik, Tania Cerquitelli
KDD1
2023 Knowledge-Driven Active Learning
abstract
In the last few years, Deep Learning models have become increasingly popular. However, their deployment is still precluded in those contexts where the amount of supervised data is limited and manual labelling expensive. Active learning strategies aim at solving this problem by requiring supervision only on few unlabelled samples, which improve the most model performances after adding them to the training set. Most strategies are based on uncertain sample selection, and even often restricted to samples lying close to the decision boundary. Here we propose a very different approach, taking into consideration domain knowledge. Indeed, in the case of multi-label classification, the relationships among classes offer a way to spot incoherent predictions, i.e., predictions where the model may most likely need supervision. We have developed a framework where first-order-logic knowledge is converted into constraints and their violation is checked as a natural guide for sample selection. We empirically demonstrate that knowledge-driven strategy outperforms standard strategies, particularly on those datasets where domain knowledge is complete. Furthermore, we show how the proposed approach enables discovering data distributions lying far from training data. Finally, the proposed knowledge-driven strategy can be also easily used in object-detection problems where standard uncertainty-based techniques are difficult to apply.
Gabriele Ciravegna, Frédéric Precioso, Alessandro Betti, Kevin Mottin, Marco Gori
ECML/PKDD (1)1