Simone Antonelli

I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, advised by Aleksandar Bojchevski.

My research focuses on trustworthy machine learning, specifically exploring the robustness of graph neural networks, differentially private graph learning and generative models.

I have obtained a B.Ss. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome where I was awarded as an outstanding student for the a.y. 2020/2021. While away from research, I enjoy doing sports and hiking in nature. For longer breaks, I indulge in travel particularly backpacking.

news

Apr, 2023	Our paper on conformal prediction for graphs has been accepted at ICML.
Mar, 2023	I have been selected as an outstanding graduate student for the a.y. 2020/2021.
Dec, 2022	Our paper on few-shot graph classification has been accepted at LoG Conference.
Nov, 2022	I joined Aleksandar Bojchevski’s group as a Ph.D. student.
Feb, 2022	Our survey has been accepted at ACM Computing Surveys.

selected publications

ICML

Conformal Prediction Sets for Graph Neural Networks

Soroush H. Zargarbashi, Simone Antonelli, and Aleksandar Bojchevski

In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{zargarbashi2023GraphCP,
  title = {Conformal Prediction Sets for Graph Neural Networks},
  author = {Zargarbashi, Soroush H. and Antonelli, Simone and Bojchevski, Aleksandar},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=zGf8J0bNfX},
  year = {2023},
}

LOG

Metric Based Few-Shot Graph Classification

Donato Crisostomi, Simone Antonelli, Valentino Maiorca, Luca Moschella, and 2 more authors

In The First Learning on Graphs Conference, 2022

Bib Blog

@inproceedings{crisostomi2022metric,
  title = {Metric Based Few-Shot Graph Classification},
  author = {Crisostomi, Donato and Antonelli, Simone and Maiorca, Valentino and Moschella, Luca and Marin, Riccardo and Rodol{\`a}, Emanuele},
  booktitle = {The First Learning on Graphs Conference},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://openreview.net/forum?id=VBXRMnRBfRF},
}

ACM
Few-Shot Object Detection: A Survey

Simone Antonelli*, Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Donato Crisostomi*, and 5 more authors

ACM Comput. Surv., Sep 2022

Abs Bib

Deep learning approaches have recently raised the bar in many fields, from Natural Language Processing to Computer Vision, by leveraging large amounts of data. However, they could fail when the retrieved information is not enough to fit the vast number of parameters, frequently resulting in overfitting and therefore in poor generalizability. Few-Shot Learning aims at designing models that can effectively operate in a scarce data regime, yielding learning strategies that only need few supervised examples to be trained. These procedures are of both practical and theoretical importance, as they are crucial for many real-life scenarios in which data is either costly or even impossible to retrieve. Moreover, they bridge the distance between current data-hungry models and human-like generalization capability. Computer vision offers various tasks that can be few-shot inherent, such as person re-identification. This survey, which to the best of our knowledge is the first tackling this problem, is focused on Few-Shot Object Detection, which has received far less attention compared to Few-Shot Classification due to the intrinsic challenge level. In this regard, this review presents an extensive description of the approaches that have been tested in the current literature, discussing their pros and cons, and classifying them according to a rigorous taxonomy.
@article{10.1145/3519022, author = {Antonelli*, Simone and Avola, Danilo and Cinque, Luigi and Crisostomi*, Donato and Foresti, Gian Luca and Galasso, Fabio and Marini, Marco Raoul and Mecca, Alessio and Pannone, Daniele}, title = {Few-Shot Object Detection: A Survey}, year = {2022}, issue_date = {January 2022}, publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, volume = {54}, number = {11s}, issn = {0360-0300}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3519022}, doi = {10.1145/3519022}, journal = {ACM Comput. Surv.}, month = sep, articleno = {242}, numpages = {37}, keywords = {benchmarks and metrics for object detection, Deep learning for few-shot object detection, dataset for object detection}, }