Dr. Issam Laradji

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All publications, talks, and blog posts in one place.

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Tech Talk: Agentic AI

West Van Memorial Library.

2

Beginner Crash Course: Building AI Apps with Python

Full-day workshop on building AI apps.

3

DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research

A Abaskohi, T Chen, M Muñoz-Mármol, C Fox, AV Ramesh, É Marcotte, ... · 10 citations

4

Hands-on Tutorial at Microsoft Agent Con

Deep research agents and benchmarks.

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Make KV Cache Both Fast and Memory Efficient

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Insightbench: Evaluating business analytics agents through multi-step insight generation

G Sahu, A Puri, J Rodriguez, A Abaskohi, M Chegini, A Drouin, ... · 27 citations

7

Bigdocs: An open dataset for training multimodal models on document and code tasks

J Rodriguez, X Jian, SS Panigrahi, T Zhang, A Feizi, A Puri, A Kalkunte, ... · 14 citations

8

AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery

A Abaskohi, AV Ramesh, S Nanisetty, C Goel, D Vazquez, C Pal, S Gella, ... · 3 citations

9

Starvector: Generating scalable vector graphics code from images and text

JA Rodriguez, A Puri, S Agarwal, IH Laradji, P Rodriguez, S Rajeswar, ... · 111 citations

10

Litllm: A toolkit for scientific literature review

S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KDJ Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 106 citations

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LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?

S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KD Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 35 citations

12

Alignvlm: Bridging vision and language latent spaces for multimodal understanding

A Masry, JA Rodriguez, T Zhang, S Wang, C Wang, A Feizi, AK Suresh, ... · 15 citations

13

LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?

S Agarwal, G Sahu, A Puri, IH Laradji, KDJ Dvijotham, J Stanley, L Charlin, ... · 10 citations

14

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

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Bigdocs: An open and permissively-licensed dataset for training multimodal models on document and code tasks

JA Rodriguez, X Jian, SS Panigrahi, T Zhang, A Feizi, A Puri, AK Suresh, ... · 8 citations

16

Intent discovery using large language models

US Patent 2,025 2025

JAR Garcia, CJ PAL, IH LARADJI, D Vazquez · 7 citations

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A Guide To Effectively Leveraging LLMs for Low-Resource Text Summarization: Data Augmentation and Semi-supervised Approaches

G Sahu, O Vechtomova, IH Laradji · 7 citations

18

SSLR: A semi-supervised learning method for isolated sign language recognition

H Algafri, H Luqman, S Alyami, I Laradji · 3 citations

19

Method and system for localization with supervision

US Patent 12,373,980 2025

IH LARADJI, DV BERMUDEZ, PR LOPEZ, R PARDINAS · 1 citations

20

Few-shot Learning for Sign Language Recognition with Embedding Propagation

A Alsulami, K Bajbaa, H Luqman, I Laradji · 1 citations

21

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, ...

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Starvector: Generating scalable vector graphics code from images

JA Rodriguez, S Agarwal, IH Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, C Pal, ...

23

Best Practices for Hosting AI Workshops at the Public Library

Published guide for AI workshop organizers.

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WorkArena: How Capable are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?

A Drouin, M Gasse, M Caccia, IH Laradji, M Del Verme, T Marty, ... · 194 citations

25

Intentgpt: Few-shot intent discovery with large language models

JA Rodriguez, N Botzer, D Vazquez, C Pal, M Pedersoli, I Laradji · 25 citations

26

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

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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

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Mixsumm: Topic-based data augmentation using llms for low-resource extractive text summarization

G Sahu, IH Laradji · 9 citations

29

Fast convergence of softmax policy mirror ascent

R Asad, R Babanezhad, I Laradji, NL Roux, S Vaswani · 6 citations

30

Improved Training Set Selection for Semi-Supervised Learning

US Patent App. 2,024 2024

IH LARADJI, N Botzer, D Vazquez

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Fast Convergence of Softmax Policy Mirror Ascent for Bandits & Tabular MDPs

R Asad, RB Harikandeh, IH Laradji, N Le Roux, S Vaswani

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Explaining Visual Counterfactual Explainers

DAV Dorta, PR Lopez, A Lacoste, I Laradji, FFX Roca, JG Sabate

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Promptmix: A class boundary augmentation method for large language model distillation

G Sahu, O Vechtomova, D Bahdanau, IH Laradji · 45 citations

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OCR-VQGAN: Taming Text-within-Image Generation

JA Rodriguez, D Vazquez, I Laradji, M Pedersoli, P Rodriguez · 43 citations

35

FigGen: Text to Scientific Figure Generation

ICLR TinyPapers 2023

JA Rodriguez, D Vazquez, I Laradji, M Pedersoli, P Rodriguez · 22 citations

36

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

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LLM aided semi-supervision for Extractive Dialog Summarization

EMNLP Findings 2023

N Mishra, G Sahu, I Calixto, A Abu-Hanna, IH Laradji · 11 citations

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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

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Enchancing semi‐supervised learning for extractive summarization with an LLM‐based pseudolabeler

G Sahu, O Vechtomova, IH Laradji · 5 citations

40

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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Language decision transformers with exponential tilt for interactive text environments

N Gontier, P Rodriguez, I Laradji, D Vazquez, C Pal · 4 citations

42

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

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Workflow discovery from dialogues in the low data regime

IH Laradji, S Raimondo, D Vazquez, P Rodriguez, C Pal · 3 citations

44

Automatic data augmentation learning using bilevel optimization for histopathological images

S Mounsaveng, I Laradji, D Vázquez, M Perdersoli, IB Ayed · 2 citations

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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

Can AI Read the Minds of Corporate Executives?

N Chapados, Z Fan, R Goyenko, IH Laradji, F Liu, C Zhang · 1 citations

47

Affinity learning with blind-spot self-supervision for image denoising

Y Zhou, L Zhou, IH Laradji, TL Lam, Y Xu · 1 citations

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Explaining Visual Counterfactual Explainers

D Velazquez, P Rodriguez, A Lacoste, IH Laradji, X Roca, J Gonzàlez · 1 citations

49

Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know

J Monteiro, P Rodriguez, PA Noel, I Laradji, D Vazquez · 1 citations

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Constraining Representations Yields Models That Know What They Don't Know

J Monteiro, P Rodríguez, PA Noël, IH Laradji, D Vázquez

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Long-Context Language Decision Transformers and Exponential Tilt for Interactive Text Environments.

N Gontier, P Rodríguez, IH Laradji, D Vázquez, C Pal

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Surrogate Minimization: An Optimization Algorithm for Training Large Neural Networks with Model Parallelism

R Asad, RB Harikandeh, IH Laradji, N Le Roux, S Vaswani

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Kubric: A scalable dataset generator

K Greff, F Belletti, L Beyer, C Doersch, Y Du, D Duckworth, DJ Fleet, ... · 427 citations

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A survey of self-supervised and few-shot object detection

G Huang, I Laradji, D Vázquez, S Lacoste-Julien, P Rodriguez · 171 citations

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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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Let's Make Block Coordinate Descent Converge Faster: Faster Greedy Rules, Message-Passing, Active-Set Complexity, and Superlinear Convergence

J Nutini, I Laradji, M Schmidt · 126 citations

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Cvpr 2020 continual learning in computer vision competition: Approaches, results, current challenges and future directions

V Lomonaco, L Pellegrini, P Rodriguez, M Caccia, Q She, Y Chen, ... · 76 citations

58

Neural point light fields

J Ost, I Laradji, A Newell, Y Bahat, F Heide · 67 citations

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A Soft Labeling Approach to Develop Automated Algorithms that Incorporate Uncertainty in Pulmonary Opacification on Chest CT using COVID-19 Pneumonia

K Lensink, FJ Lo, RL Eddy, M Law, I Laradji, E Haber, S Nicolaou, ... · 6 citations

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Workflow Discovery from Dialogues in the Low Data Regime

AE Hattami, I Laradji, S Raimondo, D Vazquez, P Rodriguez, C Pal · 6 citations

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Overcoming challenges in leveraging GANs for few-shot data augmentation

C Beckham, I Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, D Nowrouzezahrai, C Pal · 4 citations

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Challenges in leveraging GANs for few-shot data augmentation

C Beckham, I Laradji, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez, D Nowrouzezahrai, C Pal · 1 citations

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Constraining Low-level Representations to Define Effective Confidence Scores

NeurIPS ML Safety Workshop 2022

J Monteiro, P Rodriguez, PA Noel, IH Laradji, D Vazquez

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Stochastic polyak step-size for sgd: An adaptive learning rate for fast convergence

N Loizou, S Vaswani, IH Laradji, S Lacoste-Julien · 282 citations

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A weakly supervised consistency-based learning method for covid-19 segmentation in ct images

I Laradji, P Rodriguez, O Manas, K Lensink, M Law, L Kurzman, W Parker, ... · 120 citations

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Beyond trivial counterfactual explanations with diverse valuable explanations

P Rodríguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, I Laradji, L Charlin, ... · 97 citations

67

Learning data augmentation with online bilevel optimization for image classification

S Mounsaveng, I Laradji, I Ben Ayed, D Vazquez, M Pedersoli · 49 citations

68

Weakly supervised underwater fish segmentation using affinity LCFCN

Nature Scientific Reports 2021

IH Laradji, A Saleh, P Rodriguez, D Nowrouzezahrai, MR Azghadi, ... · 47 citations

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Stochastic mirror descent: Convergence analysis and adaptive variants via the mirror stochastic polyak stepsize

R D'Orazio, N Loizou, I Laradji, I Mitliagkas · 46 citations

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A deep learning localization method for measuring abdominal muscle dimensions in ultrasound images

A Saleh, IH Laradji, C Lammie, D Vazquez, CA Flavell, MR Azghadi · 24 citations

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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

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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

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Beyond Trivial Counterfactual Generations with Diverse Valuable Explanations

P Rodriguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, IH Laradji, L Charlin, ... · 6 citations

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On Stochastic Mirror Descent: Convergence Analysis and Adaptive Variants

ICML Workshop 2021

R D’Orazio, N Loizou, I Laradji, I Mitliagkas · 5 citations

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Embedding propagation: Smoother manifold for few-shot classification

P Rodríguez, I Laradji, A Drouin, A Lacoste · 283 citations

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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

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Online fast adaptation and knowledge accumulation: a new approach to continual learning

M Caccia, P Rodriguez, O Ostapenko, F Normandin, M Lin, L Caccia, ... · 198 citations

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Proposal-based instance segmentation with point supervision

IH Laradji, N Rostamzadeh, PO Pinheiro, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 70 citations

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M-ADDA: Unsupervised domain adaptation with deep metric learning

ICML Workshop 2020

IH Laradji, R Babanezhad · 63 citations

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Fast and furious convergence: Stochastic second order methods under interpolation

SY Meng, S Vaswani, IH Laradji, M Schmidt, S Lacoste-Julien · 53 citations

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Adaptive Gradient Methods Converge Faster with Over-Parameterization (and you can do a line-search)

S Vaswani, I Laradji, F Kunstner, SY Meng, M Schmidt, S Lacoste-Julien · 51 citations

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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

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A weakly supervised region-based active learning method for COVID-19 segmentation in CT images

I Laradji, P Rodriguez, F Branchaud-Charron, K Lensink, P Atighehchian, ... · 28 citations

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Synbols: Probing learning algorithms with synthetic datasets

A Lacoste, P Rodríguez López, F Branchaud-Charron, P Atighehchian, ... · 24 citations

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Looc: Localize overlapping objects with count supervision

IH Laradji, R Pardinas, P Rodriguez, D Vazquez · 12 citations

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Counting objects in images based on approximate locations

US Patent App. 2,020 2020

IH LARADJI, N ROSTAMZADEH, PHO PINHEIRO, DMV BERMUDEZ, ... · 11 citations

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Segmentation of pulmonary opacification in chest ct scans of covid-19 patients

K Lensink, I Laradji, M Law, PE Barbano, S Nicolaou, W Parker, E Haber · 5 citations

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Where are the objects?: weakly supervised methods for counting, localization and segmentation

PhD Thesis UBC 2020

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Painless stochastic gradient: Interpolation, line-search, and convergence rates

S Vaswani, A Mishkin, I Laradji, M Schmidt, G Gidel, S Lacoste-Julien · 301 citations

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Where are the masks: Instance segmentation with image-level supervision

IH Laradji, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 75 citations

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Class-based styling: Real-time localized style transfer with semantic segmentation

ICCV Workshop 2019

L Kurzman, D Vazquez, I Laradji · 39 citations

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Efficient deep Gaussian process models for variable-sized inputs

IH Laradji, M Schmidt, V Pavlovic, M Kim · 5 citations

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Where are the blobs: Counting by localization with point supervision

IH Laradji, N Rostamzadeh, PO Pinheiro, D Vazquez, M Schmidt · 289 citations

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Masaga: a linearly-convergent stochastic first-order method for optimization on manifolds

R Babanezhad, IH Laradji, A Shafaei, M Schmidt · 9 citations

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Graphical Newton for Huge-Block Coordinate Descent on Sparse Graphs

ICML Workshop 2017

I Laradji, J Nutini, M Schmidt

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Convergence rates for greedy Kaczmarz algorithms

J Nutini, B Sepehry, A Virani, I Laradji, M Schmidt, H Koepke · 88 citations

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Software defect prediction using ensemble learning on selected features

IH Laradji, M Alshayeb, L Ghouti · 531 citations

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Coordinate descent converges faster with the gauss-southwell rule than random selection

J Nutini, M Schmidt, I Laradji, M Friedlander, H Koepke · 306 citations

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XML classification using ensemble learning on extracted features

ACM Southeast Regional Conference 2014

IH Laradji, M Salahadin, L Ghouti · 3 citations

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Sparse Single-Hidden Layer Feedforward Network for Mapping Natural Language Questions to SQL Queries

IH Laradji, L Ghouti, F Saleh, MA AlTurki · 2 citations

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Robust Feature Extraction Algorithm for Sarcasm Detection in Debates

O Norton, IH Laradji · 1 citations

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New Algorithms for Deep Learning Machines

PQDT-Global 2014

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Perceptual hashing of color images using hypercomplex representations

IH Laradji, L Ghouti, EH Khiari · 32 citations

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Framework to launch, manage, and visualize thousands of reproducible experiments.

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End-to-end analytics agent for extracting actionable insights tailored to user goals and personas.

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A deep research agent for long-horizon knowledge synthesis and complex question answering.

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AgentPoirot Podcast & ServiceNow Show & Tell

Guest speaker and multiple internal sessions.

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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

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Non-convex optimization

I Laradji · 3 citations

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XML Classification using Ensemble Learning on Extracted

IH Laradji, M Salahadin, L Ghouti

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Software defect prediction using ensemble learning on selected

IH Laradji, M Alshayeb, L Ghouti

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AgentAda: Skill-Adaptive Data Analytics for Tailored Insight Discovery

AV Ramesh, A Abaskohi, S Nanisetty, C Goel, D Vazquez, C Pal, S Gella, ...

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Plan-based Prompting Improves Literature Review Generation

S Agarwal, IH Laradji, L Charlin, C Pal

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Evaluating Counterfactual Explainers

D Velazquez, P Rodriguez, A Lacoste, IH Laradji, X Roca, J Gonzàlez

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Countering Language Drift with KL Regularization

M Noukhovitch, S Lavoie, IH Laradji, D Kiela, F Strub, A Courville

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Neural Point Light Fields Supplementary Material

J Ost, I Laradji, A Newell, Y Bahat, F Heide

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Supplementary Material Beyond Trivial Counterfactual Explanations with Diverse Valuable Explanations

P Rodrıguez, M Caccia, A Lacoste, L Zamparo, I Laradji, L Charlin, ...