--- title: "Fabrizio Silvestri — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Fabrizio Silvestri, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione \"Alessandro Faedo\": 4 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Fabrizio Silvestri # Fabrizio Silvestri Fabrizio Silvestri has 4 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Florin Cuconasu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florin-cuconasu/), [Giovanni Trappolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-trappolini/), [Simone Filice](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/). 4 papers in our library · 2021–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044165871) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7669-9055) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130843901) · [**h-index 41**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044165871) · [327 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044165871) · [5,781 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044165871&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 258 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4902](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4902) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Fabrizio+Silvestri) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Fabrizio+Silvestri) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Fabrizio+Silvestri) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Fabrizio+Silvestri) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sapienza University of Rome** Rome · Italy 2021–2026 · 108 papersEmployment since 2021 · Professor, DIAG*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sapienza-university-of-rome/) · [🔬**Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo"** Pisa · Italy 2003–2026 · 99 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/istituto-di-scienza-e-tecnologie-dell-informazione-alessandro-faedo/) · [🤝**National Research Council** Rome · Italy 2002–2014 · 26 papersEmployment 2004–2013 · Researcher, ISTI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/national-research-council/) · [🏢**Meta** London · United Kingdom 2016–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) · [🏢**Yahoo** London · United Kingdom 2015–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**University of Pisa** Pisa · Italy 2000–2004 · 11 papersEducation 2000–2003 · Ph.D., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pisa/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2019–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) · [🎓**Ca' Foscari University of Venice** Venice · Italy 2006–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ca-foscari-university-of-venice/) 🏛️**Facebook Inc** London · [United Kingdom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-kingdom/) 2016–2021Employment 2016–2021 · Software Engineer, Search and Advertisement From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Philosophy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/philosophy/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Retrieval-augmented generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/retrieval-augmented-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuconasu-2024-power-noise-redefining-retrieval-rag/)** *(2024 · 312 citations)* Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) supplies an LLM with passages from an IR system so it can answer questions beyond its pre-trained knowledge. 2. **[SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dimitrov-2021-semeval-2021-task-6-detection/)** *(2021 · 75 citations)* This shared task addresses the automatic identification of propaganda and persuasion devices in memes. Memes carry their message through both overlaid text and the picture, so studying text alone misses part of the signal. Building on SemEval-2020 task 11, which covered news text only, the organisers created a… 3. **[Attention Sinks in Diffusion Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rulli-2026-attention-sinks-diffusion-language-models/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* Attention sinks are a small set of tokens that receive a disproportionate share of attention. They are well documented in autoregressive models (ARMs), but no one had examined them in masked Diffusion Language Models (DLMs), which generate text by repeatedly unmasking tokens under bidirectional attention. The authors… 4. **[Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trappolini-2026-redefining-retrieval-evaluation-era-llms/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Classic retrieval metrics such as nDCG, MAP and MRR were built for people who read result lists from the top down. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[The Power of Noise: Redefining Retrieval for RAG Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuconasu-2024-power-noise-redefining-retrieval-rag/) [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/)**Florin Cuconasu, Giovanni Trappolini, Federico Siciliano, et al.*2024 · 312 citations* 2. **[Detecting Propaganda Techniques in Memes ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.acl-long.516/) Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Dimitar Dimitrov et al.*2021 · 136 citations* 3. **[Misspelling Oblivious Word Embeddings ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1326/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Aleksandra Piktus et al.*2019 · 82 citations* 4. **[SemEval-2021 Task 6: Detection of Persuasion Techniques in Texts and Images](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dimitrov-2021-semeval-2021-task-6-detection/) [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/)**Dimitar Dimitrov, Bishr Bin Ali, Shaden Shaar, et al.*2021 · 75 citations* 5. **[Attention Sinks in Diffusion Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rulli-2026-attention-sinks-diffusion-language-models/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Maximo Eduardo Rulli, Simone Petruzzi, Edoardo Michielon, et al.*2026 · 5 citations* 6. **[Redefining Retrieval Evaluation in the Era of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trappolini-2026-redefining-retrieval-evaluation-era-llms/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Giovanni Trappolini, Florin Cuconasu, Simone Filice, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Florin Cuconasu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/florin-cuconasu/) ×2 - [Giovanni Trappolini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-trappolini/) ×2 - [Simone Filice](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-filice/) ×2 - [Yoelle Maarek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoelle-maarek/) ×2 - [Dimitar Iliyanov Dimitrov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dimitar-iliyanov-dimitrov/) - [Firoj Alam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/firoj-alam/) - [Giovanni Da San Martino](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-da-san-martino/) - [Hamed Firooz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-firooz/) - [Preslav Nakov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/preslav-nakov/) - [Shaden Shaar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaden-shaar/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/): [SIGIR 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2024/) - [International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/): [SemEval 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/semeval/2021/) - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) - Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 258 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [66 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fabrizio-silvestri/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026