Journal articles, conference and workshop papers, and preprints, newest first. Citation counts and h-index are on Google Scholar.

Papers

TAVIS: A Benchmark for Egocentric Active Vision and Anticipatory Gaze in Imitation Learning
Giacomo Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.07943 (2026)
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Co-Speech with You: Training-Free Personalization of Robot Co-Speech Gestures
Bosong Ding, Selma Ancel, Giacomo Spigler, Murat Kirtay
arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.13876 (2026)
arXiv
GestAdapt: Workspace-Conditioned Co-Speech Gesture Generation for Humanoid Robots
Bosong Ding, Xianglin Zhang, Miao Xin, Murat Kirtay, Giacomo Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.38400 (2026)
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Behavioral Cloning Outperforms Entropy-Regularized RL: Critic-Driven Failure of Actor-Critic Methods on Adaptive Tumor Treatment
Aleksandar Dimitrov, Giacomo Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.06667 (2026)
arXiv
Protein-level prediction of Klebsiella phage adsorption identifies conserved receptor-binding motifs
Francesco Fumagalli, Giacomo Spigler
bioRxiv preprint 10.64898/2026.05.21.726843 (2026)
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Proximal Policy Distillation
Giacomo Spigler
Transactions on Machine Learning Research, TMLR (2025)
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Learning secondary tool affordances from human actions using the iCub robot
B. Ding, E. Oztop, G. Spigler, M. Kirtay
34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN (2025)
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Imitation of human motion achieves natural head movements for humanoid robots in an active-speaker detection task
B. Ding, M. Kirtay, G. Spigler
IEEE-RAS 23rd International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Humanoids (2024)
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Intuitive Engineering as a Proxy Facilitates the Evolutionary Optimization of an Underactuated Robot Ball
G. Spigler *, S. Silenzi *, B. Horstman, H. Vallery
Workshop on Embodiment-Aware Robot Learning (EARL) at Robotics: Science and Systems, RSS (2024). Double-blind peer-reviewed, no proceedings.
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Optimizing inland container shipping through reinforcement learning
Vid Tomljenovic, Yasemin Merzifonluoglu, Giacomo Spigler
Annals of Operations Research (2024)
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Uneven terrain recognition using neuromorphic haptic feedback
Sahana Prasanna, Jessica D'Abbraccio, Mariangela Filosa, Davide Ferraro, Ilaria Cesini, Giacomo Spigler, Andrea Aliperta, Filippo Dell'Agnello, Angelo Davalli, Emanuele Gruppioni, Simona Crea, Nicola Vitiello, Alberto Mazzoni, Calogero Maria Oddo
MDPI Sensors (2023)
Predicting Depression and Anxiety Risk in Dutch Neighborhoods from Street-View Images
N. Khodorivsko, G. Spigler
BNAIC / Benelearn (2023)
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Investigating trade-offs in utility, fairness and differential privacy in neural networks
M. Pannekoek, G. Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.05975 (2021)
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Flatland-RL: Multi-agent reinforcement learning on trains
S. Mohanty, E. Nygren, F. Laurent, M. Schneider, C. Scheller, N. Bhattacharya, J. Watson, A. Egli, C. Eichenberger, C. Baumberger, G. Vienken, I. Sturm, G. Sartoretti, G. Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.05893 (2020)
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Assessment of Intuitiveness and Comfort of Wearable Haptic Feedback Strategies for Assisting Level and Stair Walking
I. Cesini, G. Spigler, S. Prasanna, J. D'Abbraccio, D. De Luca, F. Dell'Agnello, S. Crea, N. Vitiello, A. Mazzoni, C.M. Oddo
Electronics (2020)
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Understanding Happiness by Using a Crowd-sourced Database with Natural Language Processing
Y. Wang, G. Spigler
BNAIC / Benelearn (2020). Extended thesis abstract.
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Denoising autoencoders for overgeneralization in neural networks
G. Spigler
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, TPAMI (2019)
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Meta-learnt priors slow down catastrophic forgetting in neural networks
G. Spigler
arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.04170 (2019)
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Perception of time-discrete haptic feedback on the waist is invariant with gait events
I. Cesini, E. Martini, M. Filosa, G. Spigler, A. M. Sabatini, N. Vitiello, C. M. Oddo, S. Crea
IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, TNSRE (2019)
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Convergence of Regular Spiking and Intrinsically Bursting Izhikevich Neuron Models as a Function of Discretization Time with Euler Method
H. Gunasekaran *, G. Spigler *, A. Mazzoni, E. Cataldo, C.M. Oddo
Neurocomputing (2019)
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The Temporal Singularity: time-accelerated simulated civilizations and their implications
G. Spigler
Springer proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, AGI (2018)
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A wearable haptic feedback system for assisting lower-limb amputees in multiple locomotion tasks
I. Cesini, G. Spigler, S. Prasanna, D. Taxis, F. Dell'Agnello, E. Martini, S. Crea, N. Vitiello, A. Mazzoni, C. M. Oddo
International Symposium on Wearable Robotics, WeRob (2018)
Familiarization: A theory of repetition suppression predicts interference between overlapping cortical representations
G. Spigler, S.P. Wilson
PLOS ONE (2017)
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Intraneural stimulation elicits discrimination of textural features by artificial fingertip in intact and amputee humans
C.M. Oddo, S. Raspopovic, F. Artoni, A. Mazzoni, G. Spigler, F. Petrini, F. Giambattistelli, F. Vecchio, F. Miraglia, L. Zollo, G. Di Pino, D. Camboni, M.C. Carrozza, E. Guglielmelli, P.M. Rossini, U. Faraguna, S. Micera
eLife (2016)
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Soft-neuromorphic artificial touch for applications in neuro-robotics
G. Spigler, C.M. Oddo, M.C. Carrozza
IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob (2012)
IEEE Xplore

Patents

Metodo per trasmettere sensazioni tattili ad un utente e apparecchiatura che attua tale metodo (Method and apparatus for transmitting tactile sensations to a user)
G. Spigler, C.M. Oddo, D. Camboni, M.C. Carrozza
Italian patent number 0001417070 (2012)