Nicola Novello

PhD Student at University of Klagenfurt. Universitätsstraße 65/67, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Austria

I am currently a fourth-year PhD student at University of Klagenfurt, Austria, under the supervision of Professor Andrea M. Tonello and Professor Deniz Gündüz. Previously, I received my MSc and BSc degrees with honors from the University of Padova, Italy. I am interested in the design of objective functions for discriminative and generative models, with a particular focus on trustworthy AI.

news

May 13, 2026 I have been recognized as a Gold Reviewer at ICML 2026!
May 01, 2026 “A Unified Framework for Diffusion Model Unlearning with f-Divergence” accepted at ICML 2026!
Jul 22, 2025 “Copula density neural estimation” accepted at IEEE TNNLS!
Jun 01, 2025 I have started my 2 months visiting period at Princeton University!

selected publications

  1. ICML
    A Unified Framework for Diffusion Model Unlearning with f-Divergence
    Nicola Novello, Federico Fontana, Luigi Cinque, Deniz Gunduz, and Andrea M Tonello
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2026
  2. ICML
    f -Divergence Based Classification: Beyond the Use of Cross-Entropy
    Nicola Novello and Andrea M Tonello
    In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
  3. NeurIPS
    Mutual Information Estimation via f -Divergence and Data Derangements
    Nunzio A Letizia, Nicola Novello, and Andrea M Tonello
    Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
  4. TNNLS
    Copula density neural estimation
    Nunzio A Letizia, Nicola Novello, and Andrea M Tonello
    IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2025