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1
Talk
Tech Talk: Agentic AI
Jan 19, 2026
West Van Memorial Library.
2
Talk
Beginner Crash Course: Building AI Apps with Python
Jan 11, 2026
Full-day workshop on building AI apps.
3
Publication
DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research
ICLR 2026
A Abaskohi, T Chen, M Muñoz-Mármol, C Fox, AV Ramesh, É Marcotte, ... · 10 citations
4
Talk
Hands-on Tutorial at Microsoft Agent Con
Nov 2025
Deep research agents and benchmarks.
5
Blog Post
Make KV Cache Both Fast and Memory Efficient
2025-05-14
6
Publication
Insightbench: Evaluating business analytics agents through multi-step insight generation
ICLR 2025
G Sahu, A Puri, J Rodriguez, A Abaskohi, M Chegini, A Drouin, ... · 27 citations
7
Publication
Bigdocs: An open dataset for training multimodal models on document and code tasks
ICLR 2025
J Rodriguez, X Jian, SS Panigrahi, T Zhang, A Feizi, A Puri, A Kalkunte, ... · 14 citations
8
Publication
AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery
ACL 2025
A Abaskohi, AV Ramesh, S Nanisetty, C Goel, D Vazquez, C Pal, S Gella, ... · 3 citations
9
Publication
Starvector: Generating scalable vector graphics code from images and text
CVPR 2025
JA Rodriguez, A Puri, S Agarwal, IH Laradji, P Rodriguez, S Rajeswar, ... · 111 citations
10
Publication
Litllm: A toolkit for scientific literature review
TMLR 2025
S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KDJ Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 106 citations
11
Publication
LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?
TMLR 2025
S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KD Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 35 citations
12
Publication
Alignvlm: Bridging vision and language latent spaces for multimodal understanding
NeurIPS 2025
A Masry, JA Rodriguez, T Zhang, S Wang, C Wang, A Feizi, AK Suresh, ... · 15 citations
13
Publication
LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?
TMLR 2025
S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KDJ Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 10 citations
14
Publication
FM2DS: Few-Shot Multimodal Multihop Data Synthesis with Knowledge Distillation for Question Answering
EMNLP Findings 2025
A Abaskohi, S Gella, G Carenini, IH Laradji · 8 citations
15
Publication
Bigdocs: An open and permissively-licensed dataset for training multimodal models on document and code tasks
ICLR 2025
JA Rodriguez, X Jian, SS Panigrahi, T Zhang, A Feizi, A Puri, AK Suresh, ... · 8 citations
16
Publication
Intent discovery using large language models
US Patent 2,025 2025
JAR Garcia, CJ PAL, IH LARADJI, D Vazquez · 7 citations
17
Publication
A Guide To Effectively Leveraging LLMs for Low-Resource Text Summarization: Data Augmentation and Semi-supervised Approaches
NAACL 2025
G Sahu, O Vechtomova, IH Laradji · 7 citations
18
Publication
SSLR: A semi-supervised learning method for isolated sign language recognition
arXiv 2025
H Algafri, H Luqman, S Alyami, I Laradji · 3 citations
19
Publication
Method and system for localization with supervision
US Patent 12,373,980 2025
IH LARADJI, DV BERMUDEZ, PR LOPEZ, R PARDINAS · 1 citations
20
Publication
Few-shot Learning for Sign Language Recognition with Embedding Propagation
Nafath 2025
A Alsulami, K Bajbaa, H Luqman, I Laradji · 1 citations
21
Publication
Evaluating and Improving LitLLMs with Deep Research
COLM LM4Sci Workshop 2025
G Sahu, S Agarwal, A Puri, IH Laradji, KD Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ...
22
Publication
Starvector: Generating scalable vector graphics code from images
CVPR 2025
JA Rodriguez, S Agarwal, IH Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, C Pal, ...
23
Talk
Best Practices for Hosting AI Workshops at the Public Library
Oct 16, 2024
Published guide for AI workshop organizers.
24
Publication
WorkArena: How Capable are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?
ICML 2024
A Drouin, M Gasse, M Caccia, IH Laradji, M Del Verme, T Marty, ... · 194 citations
25
Publication
Intentgpt: Few-shot intent discovery with large language models
ICLR 2024
JA Rodriguez, N Botzer, D Vazquez, C Pal, M Pedersoli, I Laradji · 25 citations
26
Publication
Method and system for meaningful counterfactual explanations
US Patent App. 2,024 2024
PR LOPEZ, M Caccia, L ZAMPARO, I LARADJI, A LACOSTE, ... · 14 citations
27
Publication
Blockllm: Memory-efficient adaptation of llms by selecting and optimizing the right coordinate blocks
NeurIPS Workshop 2024
AV Ramesh, V Ganapathiraman, IH Laradji, M Schmidt · 13 citations
28
Publication
Mixsumm: Topic-based data augmentation using llms for low-resource extractive text summarization
arXiv 2024
G Sahu, IH Laradji · 9 citations
29
Publication
Fast convergence of softmax policy mirror ascent
OPT 2024
R Asad, R Babanezhad, I Laradji, NL Roux, S Vaswani · 6 citations
30
Publication
Improved Training Set Selection for Semi-Supervised Learning
US Patent App. 2,024 2024
IH LARADJI, N Botzer, D Vazquez
31
Publication
Fast Convergence of Softmax Policy Mirror Ascent for Bandits & Tabular MDPs
OPT 2024
R Asad, RB Harikandeh, IH Laradji, N Le Roux, S Vaswani
32
Publication
Explaining Visual Counterfactual Explainers
TMLR 2024
DAV Dorta, PR Lopez, A Lacoste, I Laradji, FFX Roca, JG Sabate
33
Publication
Promptmix: A class boundary augmentation method for large language model distillation
EMNLP 2023
G Sahu, O Vechtomova, D Bahdanau, IH Laradji · 45 citations
34
Publication
OCR-VQGAN: Taming Text-within-Image Generation
WACV 2023
JA Rodriguez, D Vazquez, I Laradji, M Pedersoli, P Rodriguez · 43 citations
35
Publication
FigGen: Text to Scientific Figure Generation
ICLR TinyPapers 2023
JA Rodriguez, D Vazquez, I Laradji, M Pedersoli, P Rodriguez · 22 citations
36
Publication
Llm aided semi-supervision for efficient extractive dialog summarization
EMNLP Findings 2023
N Mishra, G Sahu, I Calixto, A Abu-Hanna, IH Laradji · 15 citations
37
Publication
LLM aided semi-supervision for Extractive Dialog Summarization
EMNLP Findings 2023
N Mishra, G Sahu, I Calixto, A Abu-Hanna, IH Laradji · 11 citations
38
Publication
The unsolved challenges of LLMs as generalist web agents: A case study
NeurIPS Workshop 2023
R Assouel, T Marty, M Caccia, IH Laradji, A Drouin, S Rajeswar, ... · 8 citations
39
Publication
Enchancing semi‐supervised learning for extractive summarization with an LLM‐based pseudolabeler
arXiv 2023
G Sahu, O Vechtomova, IH Laradji · 5 citations
40
Publication
Capture the Flag: Uncovering Data Insights with Large Language Models
NeurIPS FMDM 2023
I Laradji, P Taslakian, S Rajeswar, V Zantedeschi, A Lacoste, ... · 4 citations
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Publication
Language decision transformers with exponential tilt for interactive text environments
arXiv 2023
N Gontier, P Rodriguez, I Laradji, D Vazquez, C Pal · 4 citations
42
Publication
Machine learning prediction of workflow steps
US Patent App. 2,023 2023
A El Hattami, CJ PAL, DMV Bermúdez, IH LARADJI, SE Raimondo · 3 citations
43
Publication
Workflow discovery from dialogues in the low data regime
TMLR 2023
IH Laradji, S Raimondo, D Vazquez, P Rodriguez, C Pal · 3 citations
44
Publication
Automatic data augmentation learning using bilevel optimization for histopathological images
arXiv 2023
S Mounsaveng, I Laradji, D Vázquez, M Perdersoli, IB Ayed · 2 citations
45
Publication
TK-KNN: A Balanced Distance-Based Pseudo Labeling Approach for Semi-Supervised Intent Classification
EMNLP Findings 2023
N Botzer, D Vasquez, T Weninger, I Laradji · 1 citations
46
Publication
Can AI Read the Minds of Corporate Executives?
SSRN 2023
N Chapados, Z Fan, R Goyenko, IH Laradji, F Liu, C Zhang · 1 citations
47
Publication
Affinity learning with blind-spot self-supervision for image denoising
ICASSP 2023
Y Zhou, L Zhou, IH Laradji, TL Lam, Y Xu · 1 citations
48
Publication
Explaining Visual Counterfactual Explainers
TMLR 2023
D Velazquez, P Rodriguez, A Lacoste, IH Laradji, X Roca, J Gonzàlez · 1 citations
49
Publication
Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know
ICLR 2023
J Monteiro, P Rodriguez, PA Noel, I Laradji, D Vazquez · 1 citations
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Publication
Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know
ICLR 2023
J Monteiro, P Rodríguez, PA Noël, IH Laradji, D Vázquez
51
Publication
Long-Context Language Decision Transformers and Exponential Tilt for Interactive Text Environments.
CoRR 2023
N Gontier, P Rodríguez, IH Laradji, D Vázquez, C Pal
52
Publication
Surrogate Minimization: An Optimization Algorithm for Training Large Neural Networks with Model Parallelism
OPT 2023
R Asad, RB Harikandeh, IH Laradji, N Le Roux, S Vaswani
53
Publication
Kubric: A scalable dataset generator
CVPR 2022
K Greff, F Belletti, L Beyer, C Doersch, Y Du, D Duckworth, DJ Fleet, ... · 427 citations
54
Publication
A survey of self-supervised and few-shot object detection
PAMI 2022
G Huang, I Laradji, D Vázquez, S Lacoste-Julien, P Rodriguez · 171 citations
55
Publication
Data Augmentation for Intent Classification with Off-the-shelf Large Language Models
NLP4ConvAI 2022
G Sahu, P Rodriguez, IH Laradji, P Atighehchian, D Vazquez, ... · 160 citations
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Publication
Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence
JMLR 2022
J Nutini, I Laradji, M Schmidt · 126 citations
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Publication
Cvpr 2020 continual learning in computer vision competition: Approaches, results, current challenges and future directions
AI 2022
V Lomonaco, L Pellegrini, P Rodriguez, M Caccia, Q She, Y Chen, ... · 76 citations
58
Publication
Neural point light fields
CVPR 2022
J Ost, I Laradji, A Newell, Y Bahat, F Heide · 67 citations
59
Publication
A Soft Labeling Approach to Develop Automated Algorithms that Incorporate Uncertainty in Pulmonary Opacification on Chest CT using COVID-19 Pneumonia
AR 2022
K Lensink, FJ Lo, RL Eddy, M Law, I Laradji, E Haber, S Nicolaou, ... · 6 citations
60
Publication
Workflow Discovery from Dialogues in the Low Data Regime
TMLR 2022
AE Hattami, I Laradji, S Raimondo, D Vazquez, P Rodriguez, C Pal · 6 citations
61
Publication
Overcoming challenges in leveraging GANs for few-shot data augmentation
arXiv 2022
C Beckham, I Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, D Nowrouzezahrai, C Pal · 4 citations
62
Publication
Challenges in leveraging GANs for few-shot data augmentation
CoLLAs 2022
C Beckham, I Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, D Nowrouzezahrai, C Pal · 1 citations
63
Publication
Constraining Low-level Representations to Define Effective Confidence Scores
NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop 2022
J Monteiro, P Rodriguez, PA Noel, IH Laradji, D Vazquez
64
Publication
Stochastic polyak step-size for sgd: An adaptive learning rate for fast convergence
AISTATS 2021
N Loizou, S Vaswani, IH Laradji, S Lacoste-Julien · 282 citations
65
Publication
A weakly supervised consistency-based learning method for covid-19 segmentation in ct images
WACV 2021
I Laradji, P Rodriguez, O Manas, K Lensink, M Law, L Kurzman, W Parker, ... · 120 citations
66
Publication
Beyond trivial counterfactual explanations with diverse valuable explanations
ICCV 2021
P Rodríguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, I Laradji, L Charlin, ... · 97 citations
67
Publication
Learning data augmentation with online bilevel optimization for image classification
WACV 2021
S Mounsaveng, I Laradji, I Ben Ayed, D Vazquez, M Pedersoli · 49 citations
68
Publication
Weakly supervised underwater fish segmentation using affinity LCFCN
Nature Scientific Reports 2021
IH Laradji, A Saleh, P Rodriguez, D Nowrouzezahrai, MR Azghadi, ... · 47 citations
69
Publication
Stochastic mirror descent: Convergence analysis and adaptive variants via the mirror stochastic polyak stepsize
TMLR 2021
R D'Orazio, N Loizou, I Laradji, I Mitliagkas · 46 citations
70
Publication
A deep learning localization method for measuring abdominal muscle dimensions in ultrasound images
JBHI 2021
A Saleh, IH Laradji, C Lammie, D Vazquez, CA Flavell, MR Azghadi · 24 citations
71
Publication
Affinity lcfcn: Learning to segment fish with weak supervision
Nature Scientific Reports 2021
I Laradji, A Saleh, P Rodriguez, D Nowrouzezahrai, MR Azghadi, ... · 18 citations
72
Publication
SSR: Semi-supervised Soft Rasterizer for single-view 2D to 3D Reconstruction
ICCV Workshop 2021
I Laradji, P Rodríguez, D Vazquez, D Nowrouzezahrai · 8 citations
73
Publication
Beyond Trivial Counterfactual Generations with Diverse Valuable Explanations
ArXiv 2021
P Rodriguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, IH Laradji, L Charlin, ... · 6 citations
74
Publication
On Stochastic Mirror Descent: Convergence Analysis and Adaptive Variants
ICML Workshop 2021
R D’Orazio, N Loizou, I Laradji, I Mitliagkas · 5 citations
75
Publication
Embedding propagation: Smoother manifold for few-shot classification
ECCV 2020
P Rodríguez, I Laradji, A Drouin, A Lacoste · 283 citations
76
Publication
A realistic fish-habitat dataset to evaluate algorithms for underwater visual analysis
Nature Scientific Reports 2020
A Saleh, IH Laradji, DA Konovalov, M Bradley, D Vazquez, M Sheaves · 255 citations
77
Publication
Online fast adaptation and knowledge accumulation: a new approach to continual learning
NeurIPS 2020
M Caccia, P Rodriguez, O Ostapenko, F Normandin, M Lin, L Caccia, ... · 198 citations
78
Publication
Proposal-based instance segmentation with point supervision
ICIP 2020
IH Laradji, N Rostamzadeh, PO Pinheiro, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 70 citations
79
Publication
M-ADDA: Unsupervised domain adaptation with deep metric learning
ICML Workshop 2020
IH Laradji, R Babanezhad · 63 citations
80
Publication
Fast and furious convergence: Stochastic second order methods under interpolation
AISTATS 2020
SY Meng, S Vaswani, IH Laradji, M Schmidt, S Lacoste-Julien · 53 citations
81
Publication
Adaptive Gradient Methods Converge Faster with Over-Parameterization (and you can do a line-search)
OPT 2020
S Vaswani, I Laradji, F Kunstner, SY Meng, M Schmidt, S Lacoste-Julien · 51 citations
82
Publication
Counting cows: Tracking illegal cattle ranching from high-resolution satellite imagery
NeurIPS Workshop 2020
I Laradji, P Rodriguez, F Kalaitzis, D Vazquez, R Young, E Davey, ... · 32 citations
83
Publication
A weakly supervised region-based active learning method for COVID-19 segmentation in CT images
arXiv 2020
I Laradji, P Rodriguez, F Branchaud-Charron, K Lensink, P Atighehchian, ... · 28 citations
84
Publication
Synbols: Probing learning algorithms with synthetic datasets
NeurIPS 2020
A Lacoste, P Rodríguez López, F Branchaud-Charron, P Atighehchian, ... · 24 citations
85
Publication
Looc: Localize overlapping objects with count supervision
ICIP 2020
IH Laradji, R Pardinas, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez · 12 citations
86
Publication
Counting objects in images based on approximate locations
US Patent App. 2,020 2020
IH LARADJI, N ROSTAMZADEH, PHO PINHEIRO, DMV BERMUDEZ, ... · 11 citations
87
Publication
Segmentation of pulmonary opacification in chest ct scans of covid-19 patients
arXiv 2020
K Lensink, I Laradji, M Law, PE Barbano, S Nicolaou, W Parker, E Haber · 5 citations
88
Publication
Where are the objects?: weakly supervised methods for counting, localization and segmentation
PhD Thesis UBC 2020
I Laradji
89
Publication
Painless stochastic gradient: Interpolation, line-search, and convergence rates
NeurIPS 2019
S Vaswani, A Mishkin, I Laradji, M Schmidt, G Gidel, S Lacoste-Julien · 301 citations
90
Publication
Where are the masks: Instance segmentation with image-level supervision
BMVC 2019
IH Laradji, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 75 citations
91
Publication
Class-based styling: Real-time localized style transfer with semantic segmentation
ICCV Workshop 2019
L Kurzman, D Vazquez, I Laradji · 39 citations
92
Publication
Efficient deep Gaussian process models for variable-sized inputs
IJCNN 2019
IH Laradji, M Schmidt, V Pavlovic, M Kim · 5 citations
93
Publication
Where are the blobs: Counting by localization with point supervision
ECCV 2018
IH Laradji, N Rostamzadeh, PO Pinheiro, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 289 citations
94
Publication
Masaga: a linearly-convergent stochastic first-order method for optimization on manifolds
ECML PKDD 2018
R Babanezhad, IH Laradji, A Shafaei, M Schmidt · 9 citations
95
Publication
Graphical Newton for Huge-Block Coordinate Descent on Sparse Graphs
ICML Workshop 2017
I Laradji, J Nutini, M Schmidt
96
Publication
Convergence rates for greedy Kaczmarz algorithms
UAI 2016
J Nutini, B Sepehry, A Virani, I Laradji, M Schmidt, H Koepke · 88 citations
97
Publication
Software defect prediction using ensemble learning on selected features
IST 2015
IH Laradji, M Alshayeb, L Ghouti · 531 citations
98
Publication
Coordinate descent converges faster with the gauss-southwell rule than random selection
ICML 2015
J Nutini, M Schmidt, I Laradji, M Friedlander, H Koepke · 306 citations
99
Publication
XML classification using ensemble learning on extracted features
ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2014
IH Laradji, M Salahadin, L Ghouti · 3 citations
100
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Sparse Single-Hidden Layer Feedforward Network for Mapping Natural Language Questions to SQL Queries
ICANN 2014
IH Laradji, L Ghouti, F Saleh, MA AlTurki · 2 citations
101
Publication
Robust Feature Extraction Algorithm for Sarcasm Detection in Debates
ICDM 2014
O Norton, IH Laradji · 1 citations
102
Publication
New Algorithms for Deep Learning Machines
PQDT-Global 2014
IH Laradji
103
Publication
Perceptual hashing of color images using hypercomplex representations
ICIP 2013
IH Laradji, L Ghouti, EH Khiari · 32 citations
104
App
Haven-AI
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Framework to launch, manage, and visualize thousands of reproducible experiments.
105
App
AgentPoirot
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End-to-end analytics agent for extracting actionable insights tailored to user goals and personas.
106
App
AgentAsimov
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A deep research agent for long-horizon knowledge synthesis and complex question answering.
107
Talk
AgentPoirot Podcast & ServiceNow Show & Tell
2024–2025
Guest speaker and multiple internal sessions.
108
Publication
Method of and system for generating training images for instance segmentation machine learning algorithm
US Patent App. 2,021 , 0
IH LARADJI, DV BERMUDEZ · 16 citations
109
Publication
Non-convex optimization
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I Laradji · 3 citations
110
Publication
XML Classification using Ensemble Learning on Extracted
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IH Laradji, M Salahadin, L Ghouti
111
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Software defect prediction using ensemble learning on selected
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IH Laradji, M Alshayeb, L Ghouti
112
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AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery
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AV Ramesh, A Abaskohi, S Nanisetty, C Goel, D Vazquez, C Pal, S Gella, ...
113
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Plan-based Prompting Improves Literature Review Generation
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S Agarwal, IH Laradji, L Charlin, C Pal
114
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Evaluating Counterfactual Explainers
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D Velazquez, P Rodriguez, A Lacoste, IH Laradji, X Roca, J Gonzàlez
115
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Countering Language Drift with KL Regularization
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M Noukhovitch, S Lavoie, IH Laradji, D Kiela, F Strub, A Courville
116
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Neural Point Light Fields Supplementary Material
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J Ost, I Laradji, A Newell, Y Bahat, F Heide
117
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Supplementary Material Beyond Trivial Counterfactual Explanations with Diverse Valuable Explanations
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P Rodrıguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, I Laradji, L Charlin, ...
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