--- title: "Francesco Maria Molfese — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Francesco Maria Molfese, Sapienza University of Rome: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francesco Maria Molfese # Francesco Maria Molfese Francesco Maria Molfese has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Adrià de Gispert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adria-de-gispert/), [Bill Byrne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-byrne/), [Luca Moroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-moroni/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5106203277) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-7598-2343) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5106203277) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106203277) · [30 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5106203277&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12936](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/130/#star-12936) 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=Francesco+Maria+Molfese) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francesco+Maria+Molfese) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francesco+Maria+Molfese) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francesco+Maria+Molfese) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sapienza University of Rome** Rome · Italy 2014–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sapienza-university-of-rome/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/molfese-2026-retraceqa-evaluating-reasoning-traces-small/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Commonsense benchmarks usually score Small Language Models (SLMs) only on whether the final answer matches the gold label. 2. **[Exploring Fine-Tuning for In-Context Retrieval and Efficient KV-Caching in Long-Context Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/molfese-2026-exploring-fine-tuning-context-retrieval/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether long-context language models (LCLMs) can be trained to find and use the relevant passages inside a very long input, so that they could replace classic RAG pipelines. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adrià de Gispert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adria-de-gispert/) - [Bill Byrne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-byrne/) - [Luca Moroni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-moroni/) - [Momchil Hardalov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/momchil-hardalov/) - [Roberto Navigli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roberto-navigli/) - [Simone Conia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simone-conia/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-maria-molfese/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026