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Francesca Toni

Imperial College London, UK

37 papers at tracked venues · 11 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

KR ×10AAAI ×7ECAI ×6IJCAI ×5AAMAS ×4NeurIPS ×2EMNLP ×1ICLR ×1ICML ×1

Frequent coauthors

Antonio Rago
×15
Anna Rapberger
×8
Nico Potyka
×6
Adam Dejl
×5
Xiang Yin
×5
Francesco Leofante
×5
Fabrizio Russo
×4
Avinash Kori
×4
Junqi Jiang
×4
Hamed Ayoobi
×3
Emanuele De Angelis
×3
Maurizio Proietti
×3

Papers

  1. Argumentation for Explainable and Globally Contestable Decision Support with LLMs
    KR 2026 ·
    Adam Dejl
    ,
    Matthew Williams
    , Francesca Toni
  2. Argumentative Debates for Transparent Bias Detection
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Hamed Ayoobi
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    , Francesca Toni
  3. Contestability in Edge-Weighted Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks
    KR 2026 ·
    Xiang Yin
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    ,
    Timotheus Kampik
    , Francesca Toni
  4. Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Assumption-Based Argumentation
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Preesha Gehlot
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    ,
    Fabrizio Russo
    , Francesca Toni
  5. X-ABALearn: Argumentative Learning with Semantics à la Carte
    KR 2026 ·
    Emanuele De Angelis
    ,
    Maurizio Proietti
    , Francesca Toni
  6. A Methodology for Incompleteness-Tolerant and Modular Gradual Semantics for Argumentative Statement Graphs
    KR 2025 ·
    Antonio Rago
    ,
    Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou
    ,
    Son Tran
    , Francesca Toni,
    William Yeoh
  7. ADA-X: An Online System for Fully Automated, Explainable Review Aggregation
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Lingjun Gao
    ,
    Hafizh Muyassar
    ,
    Yeva Hunanyan
    ,
    Shane Pongpanich
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  8. Argumentation for Explainable Workforce Optimisation
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Jennifer Leigh
    ,
    Dimitrios Letsios
    ,
    Alessandro Mella
    ,
    Lucio Machetti
    , Francesca Toni
  9. Argumentative Large Language Models for Explainable and Contestable Claim Verification
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Gabriel Freedman
    ,
    Adam Dejl
    ,
    Deniz Gorur
    ,
    Xiang Yin
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  10. Argumentatively Coherent Judgmental Forecasting
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Deniz Gorur
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  11. Counterfactual Explanations Under Model Multiplicity and Their Use in Computational Argumentation
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Gianvincenzo Alfano
    ,
    Adam Gould
    ,
    Francesco Leofante
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  12. Evaluating Uncertainty Quantification Methods in Argumentative Large Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Kevin Zhou
    ,
    Adam Dejl
    ,
    Gabriel Freedman
    ,
    Lihu Chen
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  13. Explainable Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of Composites with CNNs
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Varun Raaghav
    ,
    Dimitrios Bikos
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni,
    Maria Charalambides
  14. Exploring the Effect of Explanation Content and Format on User Comprehension and Trust in Healthcare
    ECAI 2025 ·
    Antonio Rago
    ,
    Bence Pálfi
    ,
    Purin Sukpanichnant
    ,
    Kavyesh Vivek
    ,
    Hannibal Nabli
    ,
    Olga Kostopoulou
    ,
    James Kinross
    , Francesca Toni
  15. Free Argumentative Exchanges for Explaining Image Classifiers
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Avinash Kori
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  16. Greedy ABA Learning for Case-Based Reasoning
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Emanuele De Angelis
    ,
    Maurizio Proietti
    , Francesca Toni
  17. Identifiable Object Representations under Spatial Ambiguities
    ICML 2025 ·
    Avinash Kori
    , Francesca Toni,
    Ben Glocker
  18. Identifying Query-Relevant Neurons in Large Language Models for Long-Form Texts
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Lihu Chen
    ,
    Adam Dejl
    , Francesca Toni
  19. On Gradual Semantics for Assumption-Based Argumentation
    KR 2025 ·
    Anna Rapberger
    ,
    Fabrizio Russo
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  20. On Independence and SCC-Recursiveness in Assumption-Based Argumentation
    IJCAI 2025 ·
    Lydia Blümel
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    ,
    Matthias Thimm
    , Francesca Toni
  21. ProtoArgNet: Interpretable Image Classification with Super-Prototypes and Argumentation
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Hamed Ayoobi
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    , Francesca Toni
  22. Representation Consistency for Accurate and Coherent LLM Answer Aggregation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Junqi Jiang
    ,
    Tom Bewley
    ,
    Salim I. Amoukou
    ,
    Francesco Leofante
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    ,
    Saumitra Mishra
    , Francesca Toni
  23. Argumentative Causal Discovery
    KR 2024 ·
    Fabrizio Russo
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    , Francesca Toni
  24. CE-QArg: Counterfactual Explanations for Quantitative Bipolar Argumentation Frameworks
    KR 2024 ·
    Xiang Yin
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    , Francesca Toni
  25. Contestable AI Needs Computational Argumentation
    KR 2024 ·
    Francesco Leofante
    ,
    Hamed Ayoobi
    ,
    Adam Dejl
    ,
    Gabriel Freedman
    ,
    Deniz Gorur
    ,
    Junqi Jiang
    ,
    Guilherme Paulino-Passos
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    ,
    Fabrizio Russo
    ,
    Xiang Yin
    ,
    Dekai Zhang
    , Francesca Toni
  26. Dialectical Reconciliation via Structured Argumentative Dialogues
    KR 2024 ·
    Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou
    ,
    Ashwin Kumar
    ,
    William Yeoh
    ,
    Tran Cao Son
    , Francesca Toni
  27. Explaining Arguments' Strength: Unveiling the Role of Attacks and Supports
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Xiang Yin
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    , Francesca Toni
  28. Grounded Object-Centric Learning
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Avinash Kori
    ,
    Francesco Locatello
    ,
    Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro
    , Francesca Toni,
    Ben Glocker
  29. Identifiable Object-Centric Representation Learning via Probabilistic Slot Attention
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Avinash Kori
    ,
    Francesco Locatello
    ,
    Ainkaran Santhirasekaram
    , Francesca Toni,
    Ben Glocker
    ,
    Fabio De Sousa Ribeiro
  30. Instantiations and Computational Aspects of Non-Flat Assumption-based Argumentation
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Tuomo Lehtonen
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    , Francesca Toni,
    Markus Ulbricht
    ,
    Johannes P. Wallner
  31. Learning Brave Assumption-Based Argumentation Frameworks via ASP
    ECAI 2024 ·
    Emanuele De Angelis
    ,
    Maurizio Proietti
    , Francesca Toni
  32. Non-flat ABA Is an Instance of Bipolar Argumentation
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Markus Ulbricht
    ,
    Nico Potyka
    ,
    Anna Rapberger
    , Francesca Toni
  33. Preference-Based Abstract Argumentation for Case-Based Reasoning
    KR 2024 ·
    Adam Gould
    ,
    Guilherme Paulino-Passos
    ,
    Seema Dadhania
    ,
    Matthew Williams
    , Francesca Toni
  34. Recourse under Model Multiplicity via Argumentative Ensembling
    AAMAS 2024 ·
    Junqi Jiang
    ,
    Francesco Leofante
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  35. Robust Counterfactual Explanations in Machine Learning: A Survey
    IJCAI 2024 ·
    Junqi Jiang
    ,
    Francesco Leofante
    ,
    Antonio Rago
    , Francesca Toni
  36. Targeted Activation Penalties Help CNNs Ignore Spurious Signals
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Dekai Zhang
    ,
    Matt Williams
    , Francesca Toni
  37. The Reasons that Agents Act: Intention and Instrumental Goals
    AAMAS 2024 ·
    Francis Rhys Ward
    ,
    Matt MacDermott
    ,
    Francesco Belardinelli
    , Francesca Toni,
    Tom Everitt