publications

2026

1. TimeSage-EV: A Live Benchmark for Agentic Time Series Analysis in Evolving Environments

   Qingren Yao, Yaxuan Kong, Yuqi Nie, and 7 more authors

   In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{timesageev2026,
     title = {TimeSage-EV: A Live Benchmark for Agentic Time Series Analysis in Evolving Environments},
     author = {Yao, Qingren and Kong, Yaxuan and Nie, Yuqi and Li, Yichen and Shao, Yilei and Zohren, Stefan and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Wen, Qingsong and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Jin, Ming},
     booktitle = {Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

2. PlaySuite: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Interactive Visual Intelligence

   Dheeraj Varghese, Anna Vettoruzzo, Walter Simoncini, and 5 more authors

   In Under review at ICLR 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{playsuite2026,
     title = {PlaySuite: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Interactive Visual Intelligence},
     author = {Varghese, Dheeraj and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Simoncini, Walter and Acevedo Callejas, Michelle Lorena and Derakhshani, Mohammad Mahdi and Meding, Kristof and Snoek, Cees G. M. and Vanschoren, Joaquin},
     booktitle = {Under review at ICLR 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

3. TimeSage-MT: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Time Series Reasoning

   Yaxuan Kong, Qingren Yao, Yuqi Nie, and 7 more authors

   In Under review at ICLR 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{timesagemt2026,
     title = {TimeSage-MT: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Time Series Reasoning},
     author = {Kong, Yaxuan and Yao, Qingren and Nie, Yuqi and Li, Yichen and Shao, Yilei and Zohren, Stefan and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Jin, Ming and Wen, Qingsong},
     booktitle = {Under review at ICLR 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

4. Route, Reuse, Repurpose: Continual Adaptation of LLMs with Bounded Adapter Pools

   Bilge Celik, Anna Vettoruzzo, and Joaquin Vanschoren

   In Continual Adaptation at Scale Workshop (ICML 2026), 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{route2026,
     title = {Route, Reuse, Repurpose: Continual Adaptation of LLMs with Bounded Adapter Pools},
     author = {Celik, Bilge and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Vanschoren, Joaquin},
     booktitle = {Continual Adaptation at Scale Workshop (ICML 2026)},
     year = {2026},
   }

5. CaLLM: Continual Adaptation of LLMs via Non-Parametric Adapter Routing

   Bilge Celik, Anna Vettoruzzo, and Joaquin Vanschoren

   In 5th Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{callm2026,
     title = {CaLLM: Continual Adaptation of LLMs via Non-Parametric Adapter Routing},
     author = {Celik, Bilge and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Vanschoren, Joaquin},
     booktitle = {5th Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs) 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

6. Focus where it Matters: Training-Free Semantic Re-Focus for Vision Language Models

   Shruthi Gowda, Anna Vettoruzzo, Joaquin Vanschoren, and 2 more authors

   In Under review at ICLR 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{callm2027,
     title = {Focus where it Matters: Training-Free Semantic Re-Focus for Vision Language Models},
     author = {Gowda, Shruthi and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Arani, Elahe and Bahram, Zonooz},
     booktitle = {Under review at ICLR 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

7. AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs

   Shreya Sajid, Joaquin Vanschoren, and Anna Vettoruzzo

   In Under review at ICLR 2026, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{callm2028,
     title = {AudioTETRIS: Token Elimination via Transitional Importance Signals for Efficient Audio LLMs},
     author = {Sajid, Shreya and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Vettoruzzo, Anna},
     booktitle = {Under review at ICLR 2026},
     year = {2026},
   }

8. Cross-Modal Forgetting and Transfer in Unified Multimodal Post-Training

   Francesco Colasurdo, Ivan Slobozhan, Joaquin Vanschoren, and 1 more author

   In NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and Embodied Agents, 2026

   Bib

   @inproceedings{callm2029,
     title = {Cross-Modal Forgetting and Transfer in Unified Multimodal Post-Training},
     author = {Colasurdo, Francesco and Slobozhan, Ivan and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Vettoruzzo, Anna},
     booktitle = {NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Continual Learning in the Era of Foundation Models and
     Embodied Agents},
     year = {2026},
   }

2025

1. Meta-Learning Transformers to Improve In-Context Generalization

   Lorenzo Braccaioli, Anna Vettoruzzo, Prabhant Singh, and 3 more authors

   In Under review, 2025

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   @inproceedings{geom,
     title = {Meta-Learning Transformers to Improve In-Context Generalization},
     author = {Braccaioli, Lorenzo and Vettoruzzo, Anna and Singh, Prabhant and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and Conci, Nicola},
     booktitle = {Under review},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Efficient few-shot human activity recognition via meta-learning and data augmentation

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

   In Neural Computing and Applications, 2025

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   @inproceedings{mada,
     title = {Efficient few-shot human activity recognition via meta-learning and data augmentation},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     booktitle = {Neural Computing and Applications},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. Advancing Meta-Learning for Enhanced Generalization Across Diverse Tasks

   Anna Vettoruzzo

   In Halmstad University Press, 2025

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   @inproceedings{vettoruzzo2025advancing,
     title = {Advancing Meta-Learning for Enhanced Generalization Across Diverse Tasks},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna},
     year = {2025},
     booktitle = {Halmstad University Press},
   }

4. Unsupervised Meta-Learning via In-Context Learning

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Lorenzo Braccaioli, Joaquin Vanschoren, and 1 more author

   In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2025

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   @inproceedings{camelu,
     title = {Unsupervised Meta-Learning via In-Context Learning},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Braccaioli, Lorenzo and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Nowaczyk, Marlena},
     booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Learning to Learn without Forgetting using Attention

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Joaquin Vanschoren, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and 1 more author

   Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2024, 2024

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   @article{vettoruzzo2024learning,
     title = {Learning to Learn without Forgetting using Attention},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     journal = {Conference on Lifelong Learning Agents (CoLLAs), 2024},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. Advances and challenges in meta-learning: A technical review

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, Joaquin Vanschoren, and 2 more authors

   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024

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   @article{vettoruzzo2024advances,
     title = {Advances and challenges in meta-learning: A technical review},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and Vanschoren, Joaquin and Rognvaldsson, Thorsteinn and Santosh, KC},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

3. Personalized federated learning with contextual modulation and meta-learning

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

   In Proceedings of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), 2024

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   @inproceedings{vettoruzzo2024personalized,
     title = {Personalized federated learning with contextual modulation and meta-learning},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)},
     pages = {842--850},
     year = {2024},
     organization = {SIAM},
   }

4. Multimodal meta-learning through meta-learned task representations

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

   Neural Computing and Applications, 2024

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   @article{vettoruzzo2024multimodal,
     title = {Multimodal meta-learning through meta-learned task representations},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     journal = {Neural Computing and Applications},
     volume = {36},
     number = {15},
     pages = {8519--8529},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

5. Meta-learning for efficient unsupervised domain adaptation

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

   Neurocomputing, 2024

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   @article{vettoruzzo2024meta,
     title = {Meta-learning for efficient unsupervised domain adaptation},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     journal = {Neurocomputing},
     volume = {574},
     pages = {127264},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2023

1. Meta-learning from multimodal task distributions using multiple sets of meta-parameters

   Anna Vettoruzzo, Mohamed-Rafik Bouguelia, and Thorsteinn Rögnvaldsson

   In 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), 2023

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   @inproceedings{vettoruzzo2023meta,
     title = {Meta-learning from multimodal task distributions using multiple sets of meta-parameters},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna and Bouguelia, Mohamed-Rafik and R{\"o}gnvaldsson, Thorsteinn},
     booktitle = {2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)},
     pages = {1--8},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2021

1. Modelling MEG-based Resting-State Functional Connectivity to Predict Inter-Individual Differences in Motor Tasks

   Anna Vettoruzzo

   In UNIPD Thesis, 2021

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   @inproceedings{vettoruzzo2021thesis,
     title = {Modelling MEG-based Resting-State Functional Connectivity to Predict Inter-Individual Differences in Motor Tasks},
     author = {Vettoruzzo, Anna},
     year = {2021},
     booktitle = {UNIPD Thesis},
   }