--- title: "Francesco Ortu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Francesco Ortu, University of Trieste: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francesco Ortu # Francesco Ortu Francesco Ortu has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Zhijing Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhijing-jin/), [Alberto Cazzaniga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alberto-cazzaniga/), [Bernhard Schölkopf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernhard-scholkopf/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114128847) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114128847) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114128847) · [3 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114128847&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 46 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9068](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9068) 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+Ortu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francesco+Ortu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francesco+Ortu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francesco+Ortu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Trieste** Trieste · Italy 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trieste/) · [🔬**AREA Science Park** Trieste · Italy 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/area-science-park/) 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 11 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/year/2026/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Competition of Mechanisms: Tracing How Language Models Handle Facts and Counterfactuals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ortu-2024-competition-mechanisms-tracing-how-language/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* Most mechanistic interpretability work studies one mechanism at a time, such as copying via induction heads or factual recall in MLP layers. 2. **[Language Model Alignment in Multilingual Trolley Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2024-language-model-alignment-multilingual-trolley/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* Most moral-alignment benchmarks for LLMs are English-only and reflect mainly US respondents, so it is unclear whether models' moral choices match the preferences of speakers of other languages. 3. **[When Seeing Overrides Knowing: Disentangling Knowledge Conflicts in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ortu-2026-when-seeing-overrides-knowing-disentangling/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Vision-language models sometimes face images that contradict what they learned in pre-training, and such clashes can cause hallucinations. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhijing Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhijing-jin/) ×3 - [Alberto Cazzaniga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alberto-cazzaniga/) ×2 - [Bernhard Schölkopf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bernhard-scholkopf/) ×2 - [Diego Doimo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diego-doimo/) ×2 - [Mrinmaya Sachan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinmaya-sachan/) ×2 - [Jiarui Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiarui-liu/) - [Rada Mihalcea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rada-mihalcea/) - [Sydney Levine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-levine/) - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 46 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-ortu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026