Lorenzo Baraldi

Associate Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Joined

February 2019

Names

Lorenzo Baraldi

Emails

****@unimore.it (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Associate Professor

University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (unimore.it)

2024 – Present

Assistant Professor

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (unimore.it)

2018 – 2024

Graduate Student

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (unimore.it)

2014 – 2018

Graduate Student

Facebook AI Research (fb.com)

2017 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rita Cucchiara

2014 – Present

Expertise

Image and Video Captioning

Present

Vision-and-Language integration

Present

Large-Scale models

Present

Multimodal Retrieval

Present

HPC

Present

Embodied AI

Present

Publications

Verifier Matters: Enhancing Inference-Time Scaling for Video Diffusion Models
Lorenzo Baraldi, Davide Bucciarelli, Zifan Zeng, Chongzhe Zhang, Qunli Zhang, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Feng Liu, zheng hu, Rita Cucchiara
- Proceedings of the 36th British Machine Vision Conference
- Readers: Everyone
What Changed? Detecting and Evaluating Instruction-Guided Image Edits with Multimodal Large Language Models
Lorenzo Baraldi, Davide Bucciarelli, Federico Betti, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Nicu Sebe, Rita Cucchiara
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision
- Readers: Everyone
Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal LLMs via Object-aware Preference Optimization
Alberto Compagnoni, Davide Caffagni, Nicholas Moratelli, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Rita Cucchiara
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
- Readers: Everyone
SVGauge: Towards Human-Aligned Evaluation for SVG Generation
Leonardo Zini, Elia Frigieri, Sebastiano Aloscari, Lorenzo Baraldi
- 23rd edition of International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing 2025
- Readers: Everyone
RAID: A Benchmark Dataset for Testing the Adversarial Robustness of AI-Generated Image Detectors
Hicham Eddoubi, Jonas Ricker, Federico Cocchi, Angelo Sotgiu, Maura Pintor, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Asja Fischer, Rita Cucchiara, Battista Biggio
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Improving LLM First-Token Predictions in Multiple-Choice Question Answering via Output Prefilling
Silvia Cappelletti, Tobia Poppi, Samuele Poppi, Zheng Xin Yong, Diego Garcia-Olano, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Hyperbolic Safety-Aware Vision-Language Models
Tobia Poppi, Tejaswi Kasarla, Pascal Mettes, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
- BEW 2025 Abstract
- Readers: Everyone
RAID: A Dataset for Testing the Adversarial Robustness of AI-Generated Image Detectors
Hicham Eddoubi, Jonas Ricker, Federico Cocchi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Angelo Sotgiu, Maura Pintor, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Asja Fischer, Rita Cucchiara, Battista Biggio
- Submitted to NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track
- Readers: Everyone
vHector and HeisenVec: Scalable Vector Graphics Generation Through Large Language Models
Leonardo Zini, Elia Frigieri, Sebastiano Aloscari, Lorenzo Baraldi
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
Personalizing Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Captioning: An Experimental Analysis
Davide Bucciarelli, Nicholas Moratelli, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
- European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, 2024
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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