Publications

2026

1. ArXiv

   

   SOM Directions are Better than One: Multi-Directional Refusal Suppression in Language Models

   Giorgio Piras, Raffaele Mura, Fabio Brau, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.08379, 2026

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2025

1. ArXiv

   

   Video Deblurring by Sharpness Prior Detection and Edge Information

   Yang Tian, Fabio Brau, Giulio Rossolini, and 2 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.12246, 2025

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2. ArXiv

   

   S2AP: Score-space Sharpness Minimization for Adversarial Pruning

   Giorgio Piras, Qi Zhao, Fabio Brau, and 3 more authors

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18381, 2025

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3. NeurIPS

   

   TransferBench: Benchmarking Ensemble-based Black-box Transfer Attacks

   Fabio Brau, Maura Pintor, Antonio Emanuele Cinà, and 5 more authors

   Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025

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   Exploiting edge features for transferable adversarial attacks in distributed machine learning

   Giulio Rossolini, Fabio Brau, Alessandro Biondi, and 2 more authors

   Internet of Things, 2025

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   @article{rossolini2025exploiting,
     title = {Exploiting edge features for transferable adversarial attacks in distributed machine learning},
     author = {Rossolini, Giulio and Brau, Fabio and Biondi, Alessandro and Biggio, Battista and Buttazzo, Giorgio},
     journal = {Internet of Things},
     pages = {101795},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {Elsevier},
   }

2024

1. PhD Thesis

   

   Methods for Certifiable Robustness of Deep Neural Networks

   Fabio Brau

   Mar 2024

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   @phdthesis{brau2024methods,
     title = {Methods for Certifiable Robustness of Deep Neural Networks},
     author = {Brau, Fabio},
     school = {Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies},
     address = {Pisa, Italy},
     year = {2024},
     month = mar,
     day = {15},
     type = {PhD Thesis},
   }

2. CVPR

   

   1-Lipschitz Layers Compared: Memory Speed and Certifiable Robustness

   Bernd Prach, Fabio Brau, Giorgio Buttazzo, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2024

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   @inproceedings{prach20241,
     author = {Prach, Bernd and Brau, Fabio and Buttazzo, Giorgio and Lampert, Christoph H.},
     title = {1-Lipschitz Layers Compared: Memory Speed and Certifiable Robustness},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
     month = jun,
     year = {2024},
     pages = {24574-24583},
   }

2023

1. AAAI

   

   Defending from Physically-Realizable Adversarial Attacks through Internal Over-Activation Analysis

   Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Fabio Brau, and 2 more authors

   Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jun 2023

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   @article{rossolini2023defending,
     title = {Defending from Physically-Realizable Adversarial Attacks through Internal Over-Activation Analysis},
     volume = {37},
     number = {12},
     journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     author = {Rossolini, Giulio and Nesti, Federico and Brau, Fabio and Biondi, Alessandro and Buttazzo, Giorgio},
     year = {2023},
     month = jun,
     pages = {15064-15072},
   }

2. AAAI

   

   Robust-by-Design Classification via Unitary-Gradient Neural Networks

   Fabio Brau, Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and 1 more author

   Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jun 2023

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   @article{brau2023robust,
     title = {Robust-by-Design Classification via Unitary-Gradient Neural Networks},
     volume = {37},
     number = {12},
     journal = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     author = {Brau, Fabio and Rossolini, Giulio and Biondi, Alessandro and Buttazzo, Giorgio},
     year = {2023},
     month = jun,
     pages = {14729-14737},
   }

3. 

   Maximizing team synergy in AI-related interdisciplinary groups: an interdisciplinary-by-design iterative methodology

   Piercosma Bisconti, Davide Orsitto, Federica Fedorczyk, and 8 more authors

   AI & SOCIETY, Jun 2023

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   @article{bisconti2023maximizing,
     title = {Maximizing team synergy in AI-related interdisciplinary groups: an interdisciplinary-by-design iterative methodology},
     author = {Bisconti, Piercosma and Orsitto, Davide and Fedorczyk, Federica and Brau, Fabio and Capasso, Marianna and De Marinis, Lorenzo and Eken, H{\"u}seyin and Merenda, Federica and Forti, Mirko and Pacini, Marco and others},
     journal = {AI \& SOCIETY},
     volume = {38},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1443--1452},
     year = {2023},
     publisher = {Springer},
   }

4. TPAMI

   

   On the Minimal Adversarial Perturbation for Deep Neural Networks With Provable Estimation Error

   Fabio Brau, Giulio Rossolini, Alessandro Biondi, and 1 more author

   IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Jun 2023

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   @article{brau2023minimal,
     author = {Brau, Fabio and Rossolini, Giulio and Biondi, Alessandro and Buttazzo, Giorgio},
     journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
     title = {On the Minimal Adversarial Perturbation for Deep Neural Networks With Provable Estimation Error},
     year = {2023},
     volume = {45},
     number = {4},
     pages = {5038-5052},
     keywords = {Perturbation methods;Robustness;Estimation;Neural networks;Deep learning;Error analysis;Computational modeling;Adversarial robustness;deep neural networks;trustworthy AI;verification methods},
   }

2021

1. 

   Using Self-Organizing Maps for the Behavioral Analysis of Virtualized Network Functions

   Giacomo Lanciano, Antonio Ritacco, Fabio Brau, and 5 more authors

   In Cloud Computing and Services Science, Jun 2021

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   @inproceedings{lanciano2021using,
     author = {Lanciano, Giacomo and Ritacco, Antonio and Brau, Fabio and Cucinotta, Tommaso and Vannucci, Marco and Artale, Antonino and Barata, Joao and Sposato, Enrica},
     editor = {Ferguson, Donald and Pahl, Claus and Helfert, Markus},
     title = {Using Self-Organizing Maps for the Behavioral Analysis of Virtualized Network Functions},
     booktitle = {Cloud Computing and Services Science},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
     address = {Cham},
     pages = {153--177},
   }

2. 

   Forecasting operation metrics for virtualized network functions

   Tommaso Cucinotta, Giacomo Lanciano, Antonio Ritacco, and 7 more authors

   In 2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), Jun 2021

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   @inproceedings{cucinotta2021forecasting,
     title = {Forecasting operation metrics for virtualized network functions},
     author = {Cucinotta, Tommaso and Lanciano, Giacomo and Ritacco, Antonio and Brau, Fabio and Galli, Filippo and Iannino, Vincenzo and Vannucci, Marco and Artale, Antonino and Barata, Joao and Sposato, Enrica},
     booktitle = {2021 IEEE/ACM 21st International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid)},
     pages = {596--605},
     year = {2021},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }