Dario Di Palma

Ph.D. student at Poliba

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Hi, I’m Dario Di Palma, a Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Bari, Italy, under the guidance of Professor Tommaso Di Noia. I hold both Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Bari, where I developed a strong foundation in Artificial Intelligence and Recommender Systems.

My research focuses on integrating Large Language Models and Recommender Systems, culminating in the development of a pioneering example: Recommender-ChatGPT. I specialize in interpretability techniques to explore LLM latent spaces and develop multi-objective evaluation frameworks for RS to address diverse user and system needs. I am set to graduate in January 2026.

news

Jul 20, 2025 Do LLMs Memorize Recommendation Datasets? A Preliminary Study on MovieLens-1M received the 🏆 Best Short Paper Award 🏆 at SIGIR 2025 🎉✨
Jun 24, 2025 Content-Based or Collaborative? Insights from Inter-List Similarity Analysis of ChatGPT Recommendations was a 🎖️ Candidate for Best LBR 🎖️ at UMAP 2025
May 25, 2025 Thrilled to share that two of my works have been accepted at the ACL 2025 Main Conference! 🎉 🚀

selected publications

  1. SIGIR
    Do LLMs Memorize Recommendation Datasets? A Preliminary Study on MovieLens-1M
    Dario Di Palma, Felice Antonio Merra, Maurizio Sfilio, and 3 more authors
    In SIGIR, 2025
    🏆 Best Short Paper Award at SIGIR 2025 🏆
  2. UMAP
    Content-Based or Collaborative? Insights from Inter-List Similarity Analysis of ChatGPT Recommendations
    Dario Di Palma, Giovanni Maria Biancofiore, Vito Walter Anelli, and 2 more authors
    In UMAP, 2025
    🎖️ Candidate for the Best LBR at UMAP 2025🎖️
  3. Book Chapter
    Conversational user interfaces and agents
    Giovanni Maria Biancofiore, Dario Di Palma, Claudio Pomo, and 2 more authors
    In Human-Centered AI: An Illustrated Scientific Quest, 2025
  4. Retrieval-augmented Recommender System: Enhancing Recommender Systems with Large Language Models
    Dario Di Palma
    In RecSys, 2023