Find below EMERGE’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific publications, as well as other outreach materials.
Publication: MAINLE: A Multi-Agent, Interactive, Natural Language Local Explainer of Classification Tasks
30 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce a multi-agent architecture to provide interactive explanations for classification tasks based on a range of machine learning algorithms, so that end-users can obtain answers in natural language.
Publication: Sparse Autoencoders Find Partially Interpretable Features in Italian Small Language Models
26 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa provide an early evaluation on the feasibility of using Sparse Autoencoders to interpret models trained to be natively Italian.
Publication: MAIA: a Benchmark for Multimodal AI Assessment
26 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce MAIA, a multimodal dataset developed as a core component of a competence-oriented benchmark designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of Visual Language Models (VLMs) on videos.
Publication: LLMs Struggle on Explicit Causality in Italian
26 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa present ExpliCITA, a translation of the English ExpliCa dataset
Publication: Benchmarking Nonlinear Readouts in Linear Reservoir Networks
25 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa address this gap by systematically benchmarking a spectrum of nonlinear readouts within linear RC frameworks.
Publication: Investigating Time-Scales in Deep Echo State Networks for Natural Language Processing
23 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa analyse the performance and the dynamical behaviour of Reservoir Computing models applied to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks.
Publication: Social Judgment Interferes With Action Generation During Instrumental Learning
23 September 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich investigated how social judgement modulates behavioural and neural mechanisms underlying value-based decision-making.
Workshop “Cultural Evolution of Planet X: Emergent Creativity & Wisdom of the Crowds”
08 September 2025
EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol are organising the workshop on October 6th, 2025, as part of ALIFE 2025 in Kyoto, Japan.
Publication: Perspectives in Play: A Multi-Perspective Approach for More Inclusive NLP Systems
22 August 2025
EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa propose in this study a new multi-perspective approach using soft labels to encourage the development of the next generation of perspective-aware models—more inclusive and pluralistic.
