Lorenzo Serina

Dr. Lorenzo Serina

Information Engineering, University of Brescia, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
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Academic Career Length

4Years (2023-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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29 June 2023 in Future Internet
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LSLorenzo Serina
Lorenzo Serina
Luca PutelliLuca Putelli
Luca Putelli
AGAlfonso Emilio Gerevini
Alfonso Emilio Gerevini
Ivan SerinaIvan Serina
Ivan Serina
In recent years, many studies have been devoted to discovering the inner workings of Transformer-based models, such as BERT, for instance, attempting to identify what information is contained within them. However, little is known about how these models store this information in their millions of parameters and which parts of the architecture are the most important. In this work, we propose an approach to identify self-attention mechanisms, called heads, that contain semantic and real-world factual knowledge in BERT. Our approach includes a metric computed from attention weights and exploits a standard clustering algorithm for extracting the most relevant connections between tokens in a head. In our experimental analysis, we focus on how heads can connect synonyms, antonyms and several types of factual knowledge regarding subjects such as geography and medicine.

12 September 2025
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MOMatteo Olivato
Matteo Olivato
MCMattia Chiari
Mattia Chiari
LSLorenzo Serina
Lorenzo Serina
VBValerio Borelli
Valerio Borelli
MTMassimiliano Tummolo
Massimiliano Tummolo
AGAlfonso Emilio Gerevini
Alfonso Emilio Gerevini