Recent & Upcoming Talks | Sara Candussio

Reading Between the Tokens: Uncovering the Semantic Minima of AI Monologues

Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:05:00 +0000

Invited talk at the CLCG Linguistics Lunch at the University of Groningen.

Chain-of-Thought prompting asks models to reason step by step — but most of what they write is filler. This talk presents work on identifying the semantic minima of AI reasoning: the tiny subset of tokens that actually carry predictive weight, detectable in real time from the model’s internal states. Erasing up to 95% of the output leaves a sparse set of words that still perfectly predicts the correct answer.

Large Language Models: Potenzialità, Limiti e Sistemi Multi-Agent

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Workshop at Novalia, Trieste — December 2025.

Part of a two-session seminar series on digital transformation, co-organized with IP4FVG and the University of Trieste.

This session covered the inner workings of Large Language Models, multi-agent architectures, and fine-tuning strategies — with an eye toward practical business applications and a frank discussion of current limitations.

The core message: the challenge isn’t just adopting AI, but integrating it strategically to augment rather than replace human potential.

Bridging Logic and Learning: Decoding Temporal Logic Embeddings via Transformers

Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Poster presentation of our ECML-PKDD 2025 paper at the RTG Symposium, held at the legendary Schloss Dagstuhl — a week-long gathering of PhD researchers from Max Planck Institute and Saarland University, with guest talks by Mor Geva Pipek and Luca Bortolussi.