Massimiliano Mancini

Massimiliano Mancini

Assistant Professor (RTD-B)

Research Interests

Computer Vision

Papers (25)

2026

From Weights to Concepts: Data-Free Interpretability of CLIP via Singular Vector Decomposition

Large Multimodal Models as General In-Context Classifiers

Large Multimodal Models as General In-Context Classifiers

SEM: Sparse Embedding Modulation for Post-Hoc Debiasing of Vision-Language Models

Safe Vision-Language Models via Unsafe Weights Manipulation

Safe Vision-Language Models via Unsafe Weights Manipulation

Moreno D'Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe, Massimiliano Mancini

2025

On Large Multimodal Models as Open-World Image Classifiers

On Large Multimodal Models as Open-World Image Classifiers

Automatic benchmarking of large multimodal models via iterative experiment programming

Automatic benchmarking of large multimodal models via iterative experiment programming

Classifier-to-Bias: Toward Unsupervised Automatic Bias Detection for Visual Classifiers

Classifier-to-Bias: Toward Unsupervised Automatic Bias Detection for Visual Classifiers

Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection
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Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection

Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations  in Vision-Language Models
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Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models

3D Part Segmentation via Geometric Aggregation of 2D Visual Features

3D Part Segmentation via Geometric Aggregation of 2D Visual Features

Marco Garosi, Riccardo Tedoldi, Davide Boscaini, Massimiliano Mancini, Nicu Sebe, Fabio Poiesi

GradBias: Unveiling Word Influence on Bias in Text-to-Image Generative Models

Moreno D’Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Massimiliano Mancini, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe

2024

Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection

Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection

MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning

MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning

Matteo Farina, Massimiliano Mancini, Elia Cunegatti, Gaowen Liu, Giovanni Iacca, Elisa Ricci
OpenBias: Open-set Bias Detection in Text-to-Image Generative Models
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OpenBias: Open-set Bias Detection in Text-to-Image Generative Models

Moreno D'Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Massimiliano Mancini, Dejia Xu, Vidit Goel, Xingqian Xu, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe
Less is more: Summarizing Patch Tokens for efficient Multi-Label Class-Incremental Learning

Less is more: Summarizing Patch Tokens for efficient Multi-Label Class-Incremental Learning

Frustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

Frustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models

Matteo Farina, Gianni Franchi, Giovanni Iacca, Massimiliano Mancini, Elisa Ricci

2023

Image-free Classifier Injection for Zero-Shot Classification

Image-free Classifier Injection for Zero-Shot Classification

Anders Christensen, Massimiliano Mancini, Almut Sophia Koepke, Ole Winther
Iterative Superquadric Recomposition of 3D Objects from Multiple Views

Iterative Superquadric Recomposition of 3D Objects from Multiple Views

Stephan Alaniz, Massimiliano Mancini
On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision Transformers

On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision Transformers

Thomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini, Karteek Alahari, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci
PDiscoNet: Semantically consistent part discovery for fine-grained recognition

PDiscoNet: Semantically consistent part discovery for fine-grained recognition

Robert van der Klis, Stephan Alaniz, Massimiliano Mancini, Cassio Dantas, Dino Ienco, Diego Marcos
ProbVLM: Probabilistic Adapter for Frozen Vison-Language Models

ProbVLM: Probabilistic Adapter for Frozen Vison-Language Models

Uddeshya Upadhyay, Shyamgopal Karthik, Massimiliano Mancini
Transitivity Recovering Decompositions: Interpretable and Robust Fine-Grained Relationships

Transitivity Recovering Decompositions: Interpretable and Robust Fine-Grained Relationships

Abhra Chaudhuri, Massimiliano Mancini, Anjan Dutta
Vocabulary-free Image Classification

Vocabulary-free Image Classification