Papers on Federico Torriellihttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/Recent content in Papers on Federico TorrielliHugo -- 0.152.2enMon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Confidence and Calibration of Activation Oracles for Reliable Interpretation of Language Model Internalshttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/activation-oracles-calibration/Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/activation-oracles-calibration/A comparison of confidence methods for activation oracles across Qwen and Gemma models. Revised preprint on arXiv.Developing Virtual Personas from User Level Social Media Datahttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/virtual-personas/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/virtual-personas/A psychometric evaluation of virtual patient profiles built from anonymized social media histories. Preprint on Preprints.org.Exploiting large language models in peer review: indirect prompt injection attacks and integrity probeshttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/ai-reviewer-prompt-injection/Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/ai-reviewer-prompt-injection/A study of indirect prompt injection attacks and integrity tests in AI assisted peer review. Published in Scientometrics.Potential and limitations of LLMs for augmenting lexical knowledge baseshttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/llm-lexical-knowledge-bases/Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/llm-lexical-knowledge-bases/An evaluation of large language models for extending lexical knowledge bases. Published in Expert Systems with Applications.The Energy Society: A Simulation Environment for Studying Agent Cooperation under Survival Pressurehttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/energy-society/Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/energy-society/A minimal survival-economy simulation environment for studying LLM-agent cooperation and competition under token-cost pressure. AITC 2026 poster on OpenReview.The Arbiter Agent: Continually Monitoring Multi-Agent Conversations to Detect Emergent Misalignmenthttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/arbiter-agent/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/arbiter-agent/An active auditor agent for continual monitoring of multi-agent conversations to detect emergent misalignment. Preprint on arXiv and AITC 2026.PsychoSafe: Eliciting Psychologically-Informed Refusals in Large Language Modelshttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/psychosafe/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/psychosafe/A psychologically informed refusal framework for large language models, evaluated with prompting and fine-tuning on high-risk request domains. Preprint on arXiv.Emergent Languages in Populations of Language Model Agents: From Token Efficiency to Oversight Evasionhttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/emergent-languages-agent-populations/Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/emergent-languages-agent-populations/An analysis of emergent languages on Moltbook, including token-efficiency languages, new natural languages, and oversight-evasion protocols. Preprint on arXiv.The Moltbook Files: A Harmless Slopocalypse or Humanity's Last Experimenthttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/moltbook-files/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/moltbook-files/A dataset and empirical analysis of Moltbook agent activity, safety concerns, and downstream effects on language-model training. Preprint on arXiv.How do people develop folk theories of generative AI text-to-image models?https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/folk-theories-genai/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/folk-theories-genai/A qualitative study on how people strive to explain and make sense of GenAI text-to-image models. Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2025.How do people experience the images created by generative artificial intelligence?https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/genai-image-experience/Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/genai-image-experience/An exploration of people's perceptions, appraisals, and emotions related to GenAI text-to-image models. Published in International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2025.GENERAL: Generative, Explainable and Reasonable Artificial Learninghttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/general-workshop/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/general-workshop/Workshop paper presented at CHItaly 2023, Torino, Italy.Paint it, BLACK: A Novel Methodology for Promptinghttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/black-prompting/Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/black-prompting/A novel methodology for prompting presented at the GENERAL Workshop, CHItaly 2023.Stars, Stripes, and Silicon: Unravelling ChatGPT's All-American, Monochrome, Cis-Centric Biashttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/chatgpt-bias/Mon, 18 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/chatgpt-bias/An analysis of cultural and demographic biases in ChatGPT. Published in ECML PKDD 2023 Workshops.How shall a machine call a thing?https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/basicness-language/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/basicness-language/Exploring basicness in language through attention-based neural networks. Published in NLDB 2023.NearMe: Dynamic Exploration of Geographical Areashttps://federicotorrielli.me/papers/nearme/Sat, 24 Jul 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://federicotorrielli.me/papers/nearme/A system for dynamic exploration of geographical areas. Published in HIMI 2021, part of HCI International.