Francesco Salvi

prof_pic.jpg
salvi[dot]fnc[at]gmail[dot]com

Hi there! I am a researcher at EPFL, working at dlab with Robert West. I hold a MSc in Computational Science from EPFL and a BSc in Physics from UniBo. Previously, I was also a Visiting Fellow at FBK and I worked as an intern for Bain & Company and DemoSquare.

My research broadly focuses on connecting computational methods and machine learning with society, analyzing the societal impacts of LLMs and drawing insights on human behavior. I am particularly interested in the persuasive capabilities of frontier models and in political phenomena such as online polarization and misinformation.

Keywords: Computational Social Science, Natural Language Processing, Social Computing.

Outside of work, I enjoy hiking, playing board games, and being a psephology geek.

Selected Publications

  1. platform.jpg
    On the Conversational Persuasiveness of Large Language Models: A Randomized Controlled Trial
    Francesco Salvi, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, Riccardo Gallotti, and Robert West
    arXiv preprint, Mar 2024
    📜 Paper 🐦 Twitter thread
  2. meditron.jpg
    MEDITRON-70B: Scaling Medical Pretraining for Large Language Models
    Zeming Chen, Alejandro Hernández-Cano, Angelika Romanou, Antoine Bonnet, Kyle Matoba, Francesco Salvi, and 14 more authors
    arXiv preprint, Nov 2023
    📜 Paper 🔗️ Code 🐦 Twitter thread 🤗 HF hub
  3. lobby_heatmap_v2.jpg
    Studying Lobby Influence in the European Parliament
    Aswin Suresh, Lazar Radojevic*, Francesco Salvi*, Antoine Magron, Victor Kristof, and Matthias Grossglauser
    Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024)
    📜 Paper