Roberto Capobianco

Publications

Peer-reviewed work, 2013–2026.

70+ publications. Also on Google Scholar and DBLP.

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Indicators

citations
1,900+, 88% of them since 2021
h-index
19
i10-index
30
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Selected

All publications

2026

  • RLC 2026 senior author

    Grounding LTL Tasks in Sub-Symbolic RL Environments for Zero-Shot Generalization

    Matteo Pannacci, Andrea Fanti, Elena Umili, Roberto Capobianco

    Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC)

  • ICML 2026 co-author

    Fine-grained Analysis of Brain-LLM Alignment through Input Attribution

    Michela Proietti, Roberto Capobianco, Mariya Toneva

    Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

  • ICML 2026 senior author

    This State Looks Like That: Self-Interpretable Reinforcement Learning Agents using Prototype Soft Actor-Critic

    Andrea Marzo, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

  • ICML 2026 senior author

    PPI Candidate Ranking: Large-Scale Evaluation of a Domain Knowledge–Guided Pipeline

    Maria Emilia Russo, Federico Di Valerio, … Roberto Capobianco

    Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)

  • AAAI 2026 senior author

    CIP-Net: Continual Interpretable Prototype-based Network

    Federico Di Valerio, Michela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    Proceedings of the 40th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

2025

  • WIREs DMKD, 15(4):e70046 senior author

    XAI-Guided Continual Learning: Rationale, Methods, and Future Directions

    Michela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

  • RLC 2025 senior author

    ProtoCRL: Prototype-based Network for Continual Reinforcement Learning

    Michela Proietti, Peter R. Wurman, Peter Stone, Roberto Capobianco

    Reinforcement Learning Conference (RLC)

  • CCN 2025 co-author

    Intermediate Layers of LLMs Align Best With the Brain by Balancing Short- and Long-Range Information

    Michela Proietti, Roberto Capobianco, Mariya Toneva

    8th Annual Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN)

  • WSDM 2025 senior author

    IMPO: Interpretable Memory-based Prototypical Pooling

    Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)

2024

  • Machine Learning 2024 senior author

    Explainable AI in drug discovery: self-interpretable graph neural network for molecular property prediction using concept whitening

    Michela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, … Roberto Capobianco

    Machine Learning, vol. 113, no. 4, pp. 2013–2044

  • IEEE TAI 2024 senior author

    Prototype-Based Interpretable Graph Neural Networks

    Alessio Ragno, Biagio La Rosa, Roberto Capobianco

    IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1486–1495

  • ACC 2024 co-author

    Real-Time Trajectory Generation via Dynamic Movement Primitives for Autonomous Racing

    Catherine Weaver, Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    American Control Conference (ACC)

  • ECAI 2024 senior author

    Transparent Explainable Logic Layers

    Alessio Ragno, Marc Plantevit, Céline Robardet, Roberto Capobianco

    27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

  • ECAI 2024 senior author

    DeepDFA: Automata Learning through Neural Probabilistic Relaxations

    Elena Umili, Roberto Capobianco

    27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

  • ECAI 2024 senior author

    Neural Reward Machines

    Elena Umili, Francesco Argenziano, Roberto Capobianco

    27th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)

  • EXPLIMED 2024 senior author

    Identifying Candidates for Protein-Protein Interaction: A Focus on NKp46's Ligands

    Alessia Borghini, Federico Di Valerio, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    1st Workshop on Explainable AI for the Medical Domain (EXPLIMED)

  • AAPEI 2024 senior author

    Transfer Learning between non-Markovian RL Tasks through Semantic Representations of Temporal States

    Andrea Fanti, Elena Umili, Roberto Capobianco

    1st International Workshop on Adjustable Autonomy and Physical Embodied Intelligence (AAPEI @ ECAI), Santiago

2023

  • Applied Intelligence 2023 co-author

    A self-interpretable module for deep image classification on small data

    Biagio La Rosa, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    Applied Intelligence, vol. 53, no. 8, pp. 9115–9147

  • CGF 2023 co-author

    State of the Art of Visual Analytics for eXplainable Deep Learning

    Biagio La Rosa, Graziano Blasilli, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    Computer Graphics Forum, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 319–355

  • Frontiers AI 2023 co-author

    Editorial: Ethical design of artificial intelligence-based systems for decision making

    Giulio Biondi, Stefano Cagnoni, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (FAI), vol. 6

  • JAIR 2023 co-author

    An Overview of Environmental Features that Impact Deep Reinforcement Learning in Sparse-Reward Domains

    Jim Martin Catacora Ocaña, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 76, pp. 1181–1218

  • XAI.it 2023 senior author

    Understanding Deep RL Agent Decisions: A Novel Interpretable Approach with Trainable Prototypes

    Caterina Borzillo, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    4th Italian Workshop on Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI.it@AI*IA)

  • KR 2023 co-author

    Grounding LTLf Specifications in Image Sequences

    Elena Umili, Roberto Capobianco, Giuseppe De Giacomo

    20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR)

  • MLSP 2023 senior author

    Memory Replay For Continual Learning With Spiking Neural Networks

    Michela Proietti, Alessio Ragno, Roberto Capobianco

    33rd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP)

  • NeSy 2023 senior author

    Visual Reward Machines

    Elena Umili, Francesco Argenziano, Aymeric Barbin, Roberto Capobianco

    17th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy)

  • NeurIPS 2023 senior author

    Towards a Fuller Understanding of Neurons with Clustered Compositional Explanations

    Biagio La Rosa, Leilani Gilpin, Roberto Capobianco

    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 (NeurIPS)

  • Springer book ch. 2023 co-author

    Deep Reinforcement Learning for Pin-Point Autonomous Lunar Landing: Trajectory Recalculation for Obstacle Avoidance

    Giulia Ciabatti, Dario Spiller, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    The Use of Artificial Intelligence for Space Applications, Springer, 978-3-031-25755-1

2022

  • J Comp-Aided Mol Des 2022 co-author

    Ligand-based and structure-based studies to develop predictive models for SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors through the 3d-qsar.com portal

    Eleonora Proia, Alessio Ragno, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 483–505

  • Nature 2022 co-author

    Outracing Champion Gran Turismo Drivers with Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Peter R. Wurman, Samuel Barrett, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    Nature, vol. 602, no. 7896, pp. 223–228 · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04357-7

  • NeSy 2022 co-author

    Grounding LTLf Specifications in Images

    Elena Umili, Roberto Capobianco, Giuseppe De Giacomo

    16th International Workshop on Neural-Symbolic Learning and Reasoning (NeSy)

2021

  • JAIR 2021 first author

    Agent-Based Markov Modeling for Improved COVID-19 Mitigation Policies

    Roberto Capobianco, Varun Raj Kompella, et al.

    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, vol. 71, pp. 953–992

  • RAS 2021 co-author

    LoOP: Iterative Learning for Optimistic Planning on Robots

    Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 136, p. 103693

  • AIxIA 2021 co-author

    A Discussion about Explainable Inference on Sequential Data via Memory-Tracking

    Biagio La Rosa, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    AIxIA 2021 Discussion Papers

  • AIxIA 2021 senior author

    Tafl-ES: Exploring Evolution Strategies for Asymmetrical Board Games

    Roberto Gallotta, Roberto Capobianco

    AIxIA 2021 — Advances in Artificial Intelligence

  • AIxIA 2021 co-author

    Exploration-Intensive Distractors: Two Environment Proposals and a Benchmarking

    Jim Martin Catacora Ocaña, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    AIxIA 2021 — Advances in Artificial Intelligence

  • AIxIA 2021 senior author

    Detection Accuracy for Evaluating Compositional Explanations of Units

    Sayo M. Makinwa, Biagio La Rosa, Roberto Capobianco

    AIxIA 2021 — Advances in Artificial Intelligence

  • AAMAS 2021 senior author

    Multiagent Epidemiologic Inference through Realtime Contact Tracing

    Guni Sharon, James Ault, … Roberto Capobianco

    20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

  • ASCEND 2021 senior author

    Learning Transferable Policies for Autonomous Planetary Landing via Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Giulia Ciabatti, Shreyansh Daftry, Roberto Capobianco

    ASCEND 2021 (AIAA) · doi:10.2514/6.2021-4006

  • CVPR-W 2021 senior author

    Autonomous Planetary Landing via Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning

    Giulia Ciabatti, Shreyansh Daftry, Roberto Capobianco

    IEEE/CVF CVPR Workshops (CVPR-W)

2020

  • AAAI-FSS 2020 co-author

    Reinforcement Learning for Optimization of COVID-19 Mitigation Policies

    Varun Raj Kompella, Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    AAAI Fall Symposium on AI for Social Good (AAAI-FSS)

  • AAMAS 2020 co-author

    GUESs: Generative Modeling of Unknown Environments and Spatial Abstraction for Robots

    Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

  • IJCAI 2020 co-author

    Explainable Inference on Sequential Data via Memory-Tracking

    Biagio La Rosa, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)

2019

  • AAMAS 2019 co-author

    Cooperative Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning in Soccer Domains

    Jim Martin Catacora Ocaña, Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

2018

  • IAS 2018 first author

    Hi-Val: Iterative Learning of Hierarchical Value Functions for Policy Generation

    Roberto Capobianco, Francesco Riccio, Daniele Nardi

    Intelligent Autonomous Systems 15 (IAS-15)

  • IROS 2018 co-author

    Efficient Long-Term Mapping in Dynamic Environments

    Maria Teresa Lazaro, Roberto Capobianco, Giorgio Grisetti

    IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

  • ICRA 2018 co-author

    Q-CP: Learning Action Values for Cooperative Planning

    Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

  • AAMAS 2018 co-author

    DOP: Deep Optimistic Planning with Approximate Value Function Evaluation

    Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS)

2016

  • RAS 2016 co-author

    Living with Robots: Interactive Environmental Knowledge Acquisition

    Guglielmo Gemignani, Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 78, pp. 1–16

  • Humanoids 2016 co-author

    Learning Human-Robot Handovers through π-STAM: Policy Improvement with Spatio-Temporal Affordance Maps

    Francesco Riccio, Roberto Capobianco, Daniele Nardi

    IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids)

  • UAI 2016 co-author

    Learning to Smooth with Bidirectional Predictive State Inference Machines

    Wen Sun, Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    32nd Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI)

  • ISER 2016 co-author

    Improved Learning of Dynamics Models for Control

    Arun Venkatraman, Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    15th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)

2015

  • ECMR 2015 first author

    A Proposal for Semantic Map Representation and Evaluation

    Roberto Capobianco, Jacopo Serafin, et al.

    European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)

2014

  • IAS 2014 first author

    Automatic Extraction of Structural Representations of Environments

    Roberto Capobianco, Guglielmo Gemignani, et al.

    Intelligent Autonomous Systems 13 (IAS-13)

  • ISER 2014 co-author

    Interactive Semantic Mapping: Experimental Evaluation

    Guglielmo Gemignani, Daniele Nardi, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    14th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)

2013

  • ICAR 2013 co-author

    On-line Semantic Mapping

    Emanuele Bastianelli, Domenico Bloisi, … Roberto Capobianco, et al.

    16th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)

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