Francesco Alesiani

Francesco Alesiani

Senior Researcher

NEC Labs Europe

Professional Summary

About Me

I am a Senior Researcher at NEC Labs Europe. My research interests include Machine Learning, Optimization, Geometry. I am working at the intersection of Physics and Machine Learning, in particular modelling biomolecular systems. I am part of the Machine Learning for Computational Science team at the Interlligent Software System Group.

Interests

Machine Learning Information Theory Optimization Control
📚 My Research
Driven by curosity I have been exploring different fields: Information Therory, Signal Processing, Control, Convex and nonlinear Optimiation, Telecommunication, Wirless Sensor Networks, Localization, Transportation system, Public Transport Optimization, Autonomous Driving, Traffic Control and Management, Meta Learning, Machine Learning, Physics and Machine Learning, Molecular Simulation.
Featured Publications
Recent Publications
(2026). Clifford Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05977.
(2026). Logical Guidance for the Exact Composition of Diffusion Models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.05549.
(2025). Adaptive width neural networks. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.15889.
(2025). Fast, Modular, and Differentiable Framework for Machine Learning-Enhanced Molecular Simulations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.20541.
(2025). Geometric Kolmogorov-Arnold Superposition Theorem. arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.16664.
Recent News

Adaptive Width Neural Networks accepted at ICLR 2026

Our paper on learning unbounded layer width during training (with easy truncation and dynamic compression) has been accepted for poster presentation at ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro.

LRIM benchmark accepted at ICLR 2026

Our paper on the Long-Range Ising Model benchmark for provably evaluating long-range capabilities in graph learning has been accepted for poster presentation at ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro.

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Adaptive Width Neural Networks accepted at ICLR 2026

Our paper on learning unbounded layer width during training (with easy truncation and dynamic compression) has been accepted for poster presentation at ICLR 2026, Rio de Janeiro.

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LRIM benchmark accepted at ICLR 2026

Our paper on the Long-Range Ising Model benchmark for provably evaluating long-range capabilities in graph learning has been accepted for poster presentation at ICLR 2026, Rio de …

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Presented "Guidance of Diffusion-Based Conditional Generative Models for Antibody Design" at PriGM@EurIPS 2025

Talk at the Workshop on Principles of Generative Modeling (PriGM), EurIPS 2025, Copenhagen. We introduce a formal logical composition framework for conditional diffusion (AND and …

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Attended SIMBIOCHEM@EurIPS 2025 — Viktor presented "Transferable long-range interactions in machine-learned interatomic potentials"

At the 1st SIMBIOCHEM Workshop (Dec 6th, 2025, Copenhagen), Viktor Zaverkin presented our work on augmenting MLIPs with analytic long-range electrostatics and dispersion for …

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Paper accepted in Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC)

Performance of Universal Machine-Learned Potentials with Explicit Long-Range Interactions in Biomolecular Simulations accepted for publication in JCTC (ACS). Viktor Zaverkin, …

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Paper on DIMOS (PyTorch molecular dynamics framework) accepted in J. Chem. Phys.

Fast, Modular, and Differentiable Framework for Machine Learning-Enhanced Molecular Simulations accepted in J. Chem. Phys. PyTorch-based framework for ML-enhanced MD/MC; code at …

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Website updated with latest publications and Hugo

Added 2025–2026 papers from Google Scholar and upgraded the site to Hugo 0.155 with the latest theme.

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