Matteo Silvestri

Driven by a love for mathematics, passionate about AI technologies.

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I’m a second-year PhD student at Sapienza University of Rome.
I am a member of the HERCOLE Lab research laboratory, and I am currently a research trainee at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

My research focuses on using large language models to solve useful downstream tasks efficiently. For instance, I work on XAI Narratives, where LLMs are used to turn technical explainability outputs into human-friendly explanations while preserving faithfulness to the underlying model behavior. More broadly, I am interested in AI agents, especially in how they can leverage context to become more efficient, autonomous, and reliable.

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Sep 02, 2026 Small models, small compute footprint, no loss in explanation quality. That’s the claim of our latest work “Small Language Models as Resource-Aware Counterfactual Narrators: Knowledge Distillation and Self-Refinement for Green Local XAI”, which we’ll bring to the GREEN-AI Workshop at ECML-PKDD 2026 in Naples 🇮🇹
Aug 05, 2026 Happy to share that our paper When Large Language Models Know the Table: A Framework for Assessing Data Contamination in Tabular Datasets has been accepted at COLM 2026! 🇺🇸
Apr 01, 2026 I started a Research Traineeship at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, focusing on AI agents for scientific discovery! 🧪
Mar 26, 2026 A new milestone! Our latest work PONTE: Personalized Orchestration for Natural Language Trustworthy Explanations has been accepted at the 4th XAI World Conference! Brasil we’re coming 🇧🇷
Nov 15, 2025 Happy to share that we receive the Best Paper Award at the HCAI Workshop!