<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>📢 News on Alessandro Zirilli</title><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/</link><description>Recent content in 📢 News on Alessandro Zirilli</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© 2026 Alessandro Zirilli</copyright><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/11_cybersecurity_talk/</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/11_cybersecurity_talk/</guid><description>🎤 I&amp;rsquo;ll be participating as an invited speaker at &lt;a
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>&lt;strong>Cybersecurity — Una Gara da Vincere 2026&lt;/strong>&lt;/a>, talking about Homomorphic Encryption in Machine Learning Models!</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/10_quantization_vector/</link><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/10_quantization_vector/</guid><description>😌 Ours &lt;a
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>Zero-Shot Quantization via Weight-Space Arithmetic&lt;/a> shows that PTQ robustness is a &lt;strong>transferable direction in weight space&lt;/strong>, enabling zero-shot quantization robustness transfer across ViT models.</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/9_iclr/</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/9_iclr/</guid><description>📰 Our paper &lt;strong>MASS&lt;/strong>, &lt;em>MoErging through Adaptive Subspace Selection&lt;/em>, has been accepted at &lt;strong>&lt;a
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>ICLR 2026&lt;/a>&lt;/strong>.</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/8_phd_start/</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/8_phd_start/</guid><description>👨🏻‍💻 Today is my first day as a PhD student at the &lt;a
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>GLADIA research group&lt;/a>, advised by Prof. Emanuele Rodolà!</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/7_master_degree/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/7_master_degree/</guid><description>🥳 I defended my Master&amp;rsquo;s thesis titled &amp;ldquo;Efficient SAM2&amp;rdquo; at Sapienza University of Rome. With a final grade of &lt;strong>110/110 cum laude&lt;/strong>, I am now officially a computer scientist!</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/6_iciap_workshop/</link><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/6_iciap_workshop/</guid><description>🎤 On the &lt;strong>16th of September 2025&lt;/strong>, I will be presenting my paper MASS at &lt;a
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>&lt;em>&amp;ldquo;Breaking the Monolith&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em>&lt;/a> workshop at ICIAP 2025!</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/5_end_erasmus/</link><pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/5_end_erasmus/</guid><description>📍 End of my Erasmus. I&amp;rsquo;m moving back to Rome 🇮🇹 to pursue my PhD at Sapienza.</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/4_erasmus_thesis/</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/4_erasmus_thesis/</guid><description>🎓 I defended my Master&amp;rsquo;s thesis at TUM, &lt;strong>Efficient SAM2&lt;/strong> (read the &lt;a
href="https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/posts/efficient-sam2/">blog post&lt;/a>🤩).</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/3_phd/</link><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/3_phd/</guid><description>🥳 I&amp;rsquo;ve been accepted as a &lt;strong>PhD candidate&lt;/strong> in informatics at &lt;a
href="https://www.uniroma1.it"
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>Sapienza University of Rome&lt;/a>! &lt;strong>Resulting in the fourth highest score&lt;/strong>, I was awarded a funded position. I will be advised by professor Emanuele Rodolà.</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/2_mass/</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/2_mass/</guid><description>📰 My first paper &lt;strong>MASS&lt;/strong>, MoErging through Adaptive Subspace Selection is available on &lt;a
href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.05342"
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>arXiv&lt;/a>!</description></item><item><title/><link>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/1_erasmus/</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://www.alessandrozirilli.com/index/news/1_erasmus/</guid><description>📍 My Erasmus is about to start! I will move to Munich 🇩🇪, where I will be studying and doing my thesis research at &lt;a
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>TUM&lt;/a> for the entire 2024/2025 academic year.</description></item></channel></rss>