Alberto Veneri
It is hard to say if you really learned something if you cannot explain it.
This website is still under construction.
I am a second-year Ph.D. student at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a graduate fellow at ISTI-CNR.
I started my path in the scientific world (by chance I would say 🙂) with two works on a new visualization technique for eye-tracking data based on a project developed with a friend and colleague during my exchange period (Erasmus + project) at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Now, my research is focused on the explanation of the prediction made by the state-of-the-art machine learning models used for the Information Retrieval (IR) field. I started my first year focusing on explaining the prediction made by ensembles of decision trees (forests) for regression, classification and the learning-to-rank task. Then I switched the focus to neural cross-encoders and dual-encoders for ranking and now I am investigating what they do under the hood to predict a ranked list of documents(text-ranking task).