Publications

Grounding Computer Use Agents on Human Demonstrations
Aarash Feizi, Shravan Nayak, Xiangru Jian, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Kevin Li, Rabiul Awal, Xiaohu Lù, Johan Obando-Ceron, Juan A. Rodriguez, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Reihaneh Rabbany, Perouz Taslakian, Christopher Pal, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar
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StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs from Sketch Images
Pierre Bechard, Chenguang Wang, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Juan A. Rodriguez, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar, Perouz Taslakian
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Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
Juan A. Rodriguez, Haoran Zhang, Abhay Puri, Rajarshi Pramanik, Aarash Feizi, Philip Wichmann, Animesh Kumar Mondal, Mohammad Reza Samsami, Rabiul Awal, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marc Pedersoli
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AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Understanding
Ahmed Masry, Juan A. Rodriguez, Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Chenguang Wang, Aarash Feizi, Akshay K. Suresh, Abhay Puri, Xiangru Jian, Pierre-André Noel, Sathyanarayanan T. Madhusudhan, Marc Pedersoli, Bang Liu, Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Enamul Hoque, Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar
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WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation
Rabiul Awal, Mehdi Massoud, Zichao Li, Aarash Feizi, Suyuchen Wang, Christopher Pal, Amit Agrawal, David Vazquez, Siva Reddy, Juan A. Rodriguez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar
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UI-Vision: Desktop-Centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
Shravan Nayak, Xiangru Jian, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Juan A. Rodriguez, Montek Kalsi, Nicolas Chapados, M. Tamer Özsu, Amit Agrawal, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar
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InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation
Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, Juan A. Rodriguez, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Mohammad Chegini, Alexandre Drouin, Perouz Taslakian, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, David Vazquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Sai Rajeswar, Issam H. Laradji
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BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks
Juan A. Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay K. Suresh, Florian Savard, Ahmed Masry, Shravan Nayak, Rabiul Awal, Mahsa Massoud, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Zichao Li, Suyuchen Wang, Pierre-André Noel, Mats L. Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Siva Reddy, Marc Pedersoli, Yoshua Bengio, Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, Spandana Gella, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Sai Rajeswar
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VCR: Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning by Restoring Occluded Text
Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Lu Li, Ge Zhang, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Jie Fu, Bang Liu, Yoshua Bengio
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BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning
Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi, Juan A. Rodriguez, Megh Thakkar, Khyati Mahajan, Vikas Yadav, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Alexandre Piché, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Enamul Hoque, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Spandana Gella
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BiXSE: Improving Dense Retrieval via Probabilistic Graded Relevance Distillation
Christos Tsirigotis, Vaibhav Adlakha, Joao Monteiro, Aaron Courville, Perouz Taslakian
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Learning to Defer for Causal Discovery with Imperfect Experts
Oscar Clivio, Divyat Mahajan, Perouz Taslakian, Sara Magliacane, Ioannis Mitliagkas, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Drouin
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Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability
We present a unified framework for studying the identifiability of representations learned from simultaneously observed views, such as …
Dingling Yao, Danru Xu, Sebastien Lachapelle, Sara Magliacane, Perouz Taslakian, Georg Martius, Julius Von Küglen, Francesco Locatello
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RepliQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content
Joao Monteiro, Pierre-André Noël, Étienne Marcotte, Sai Rajeswar, Valentina Zantedeschi, David Vázquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian
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XC-Cache: Cross-Attending to Cached Context for Efficient LLM Inference
Joao Monteiro, Étienne Marcotte, Pierre-André Noël, Valentina Zantedeschi, David Vázquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian
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OC-NMN : Object-centric Compositional Neural Module Network for Generative Visual Analogical Reasoning
A key aspect of human intelligence is the ability to imagine — composing learned concepts in novel ways — to make sense of new …
Pau Rodriguez, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Yoshua Bengio Rim Assouel
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Explaining Graph Neural Networks Using Interpretable Local Surrogates
We propose an interpretable local surrogate (ILS) method for understanding the predictions of black-box graph models. Explainability …
Farzaneh Heidari, Perouz Taslakian, Guillaume Rabusseau
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Capture the Flag: Uncovering Data Insights with Large Language Models
The extraction of a small number of relevant insights from vast amounts of data is a crucial component of data-driven decision-making. …
Issam Laradji, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Alexandre Drouin
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A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning
Causal representation learning (CRL) aims at identifying high-level causal variables from low-level data, e.g. images. Current methods …
Danru Xu, Dingling Yao, Sebastien Lachapelle, Perouz Taslakian, Julius Von Küglen, Francesco Locatello, Sara Magliacane
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Knowledge Hypergraph Embedding Meets Relational Algebra
Bahare Fatemi, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, David Poole
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Using Graph Algorithms to Pretrain Graph Completion Transformers
Jonathan Pilault, Michael Galkin, Bahare Fatemi, Perouz Taslakian, David Vasquez, Christopher Pal
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Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery
Causal discovery from observational data is a challenging task to which an exact solution cannot always be identified. Under …
Philippe Brouillard, Perouz Taslakian, Alexandre Lacoste, Sebastien Lachapelle, Drouin Alexandre
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Knowledge Hypergraphs: Prediction Beyond Binary Relations
Knowledge graphs store facts using relations between two entities. In this work, we address the question of link prediction in …
Bahare Fatemi, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, David Poole
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Context-aware visual compatibility prediction
How do we determine whether two or more clothing items are compatible or visually appealing? Part of the answer lies in understanding …
Guillem Cucurull, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez
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Efficient multi-robot coverage of a known environment
This paper addresses the complete area coverage problem of a known environment by multiple-robots. Complete area coverage is the …
Nare Karapetyan, Kelly Benson, Chris McKinney, Perouz Taslakian, Ioannis Rekleitis
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The four bars problem
A four-bar linkage is a mechanism consisting of four rigid bars which are joined by their endpoints in a polygonal chain and which can …
Alexandre Mauroy, Perouz Taslakian, Stefan Langerman, Raphaël Jungers
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Continuous Yao Graphs
In this paper, we introduce a variation of the well-studied Yao graphs. Given a set of points $S⊂ ℝ^2$ and an angle $0 < Θ łeq 2π$, …
Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Mirel Damian, Rolf Fagerberg, André van Renssen, Perouz Taslakian, Sander Verdonschot
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Theta-3 is connected
In this paper, we show that the $Θ$-graph with three cones is connected. We also provide an alternative proof of the connectivity of …
Oswin Aichholzer, Sang Won Bae, Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Matias Korman, André van Renssen, Perouz Taslakian, Sander Verdonschot
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New and Improved Spanning Ratios for Yao Graphs
For a set of points in the plane and a fixed integer $k > 0$, the Yao graph $Y_k$ partitions the space around each point into $k$ …
Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Mirela Damian, Rolf Fagerberg, Wah Loon Keng, Joseph O'Rourke, André van Renssen, Perouz Taslakian, Sander Verdonschot, Ge Xia
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Necklaces, Convolutions, and X + Y
We give subquadratic algorithms that, given two necklaces each with $n$ beads at arbitrary positions, compute the optimal rotation of …
David Bremner, Timothy M. Chan, Erik D. Demaine, Jeff Erickson, Ferran Hurtado, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, Mihai P̌atraşcu, Perouz Taslakian
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Competitive Online Routing on Delaunay Triangulations
Let $G$ be a graph, $s ın G$ be a source node and $t ın G$ be a target node. The sequence of adjacent nodes (graph walk) visited by a …
Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, Stephane Durocher, Perouz Taslakian
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Sum of Squared Edges for MST of a Point Set in a Unit Square
Oswin Aichholzer, Sarah R. Allen, Greg Aloupis, Luis Barba, Prosenjit Bose, Jean-Lou De Carufel, John Iacona an Stefan Langerman, Diane Souvaine, Perouz Taslakian, Mark Yagnatinsky
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Transversals in Trees
A transversal in a rooted tree is any set of nodes that meets every path from the root to a leaf. We let c(T,k) denote the number of …
Victor Campos, Văsek Chvátal, Luc Devroye, Perouz Taslakian
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Non-crossing Matchings of Points with Geometric Objects
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Muriel Dulieu, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Vi Hart, Ferran Hurtado, Stefan Langerman, Maria Saumell, Carlos Seara, Perouz Taslakian
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Fitting voronoi diagrams to planar tesselations
Given a tesselation of the plane, defined by a planar straight-line graph $G$, we want to find a minimal set $S$ of points in the …
Greg Aloupis, Hebert Pérez-Rosés, Guillermo Pineda-Villavicencio, Perouz Taslakian, Dannier Trinchet-Almaguer
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Coloring and Guarding Arrangements
Given a simple arrangement of lines in the plane, what is the minimum number c of colors required so that we can color all lines in a …
Prosenjit Bose, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Ferran Hurtado, Matias Korman, Stefan Langerman, Perouz Taslakian
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Cannibal Animal Games: a new variant of Tic-Tac-Toe
Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Hiro Ito, Matias Korman, Stefan Langerman, Hikaru Sakaidani, Perouz Taslakian
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Colorful Strips
Given a planar point set and an integer $k$, we wish to color the points with $k$ colors so that any axis-aligned strip containing …
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Shinji Imahori, Matias Korman, Stefan Langerman, Oded Schwartz, Shakhar Smorodinsky, Perouz Taslakian
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Deflating Polygons to the Limit
In this paper we study polygonal transformations through an operation called deflation. It is known that some families of polygons …
Isabel Hubard, Perouz Taslakian
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Matching Points with Things
Greg Aloupis, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Muriel Dulieu, Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Vi Hart, Ferran Hurtado, Stefan Langerman, Maria Saumell, Carlos Seara, Perouz Taslakian
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Relaxed Gabriel Graphs
Prosenjit Bose, Jean Cardinal, Sébastien Collette, Erik D. Demaine, Belen Palop, Perouz Taslakian, Norbert Zeh
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The Distance Geometry of Music
We demonstrate relationships between the classic Euclidean algorithm and many other fields of study, particularly in the context of …
Erik D. Demaine, Francisco Gomez-Martin, Henk Meijer, David Rappaport, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint, Terry Winograd, David R. Wood
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Structural Properties of Euclidean Rhythms
In this paper we investigate the structure of Euclidean rhythms and show that a Euclidean rhythm is formed of a pattern, called the …
Francisco Gomez-Martin, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Reconstructing Points on a Circle from Labeled Distances
David Bremner, Erik D. Demaine, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Interlocking and Euclidean Rhythms
Several operations on Euclidean rhythms based on musical motivations are defined. The operations defined are complementation, …
Francisco Gomez-Martin, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Musical Rhythms in the Euclidean Plane
Perouz Taslakian
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Convergence of the shadow sequence of inscribed polygons
Francisco Gomez-Martin, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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A Pumping Lemma for Homometric Rhythms
Joseph O'Rourke, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Evenness preserving operations on musical rhythms
Francisco Gomez-Martin, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Vertex Pops and Popturns
Greg Aloupis, Brad Ballinger, Prosenjit Bose, Mirela Damian, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Robin Flatland, Ferran Hurtado, Stefan Langerman, Joseph O'Rourke, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried Toussaint
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On Rolling Cube Puzzles
We analyze the computational complexity of various rolling cube puzzles.
Kevin Buchin, Maike Buchin, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Dania El-Khechen, Sándor Fekete, Christian Knauer, Andr\ ́Schulz, Perouz Taslakian
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Sand Drawings and Gaussian Graphs
Sand drawings form a part of many cultural traditions. Depending on the part of the world in which they occur, such drawings have …
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Deflating The Pentagon
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Thomas Fevens, Antonio Mesa, Michael Soss, Diane L. Souvaine, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried Toussaint
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Deflating The Pentagon
In this paper we consider deflations inverse pocket flips of n-gons for small n. We show that every pentagon can be deflated after …
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Diane L. Souvaine, Perouz Taslakian
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Geometric properties of musical rhythms
Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Curves in the Sand: Algorithmic Drawing
Mirela Damian, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine, Vida Dujmovic, Dania El-Khechen, Robin Flatland, John Iacono, Stefan Langerman, Henk Meijer, Suneeta Ramaswami, Diane L. Souvaine, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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The Distance Geometry of Deep Rhythms and Scales
Erik D. Demaine, Francisco Gomez-Martin, Henk Meijer, David Rappaport, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint, Terry Winograd, David R. Wood
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Hamiltonian Cycles in Sparse Vertex-Adjacency Duals
Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
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Orderly Broadcasting in a 2D Torus
Hovhannes A. Harutyunyan, Perouz Taslakian
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Orderly Broadcasting in Multidimensional Tori
Perouz Taslakian
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