no code implementations • 16 Nov 2024 • Juan A. Rodriguez, Nicholas Botzer, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli, Issam Laradji
IntentGPT comprises an \textit{In-Context Prompt Generator}, which generates informative prompts for In-Context Learning, an \textit{Intent Predictor} for classifying and discovering user intents from utterances, and a \textit{Semantic Few-Shot Sampler} that selects relevant few-shot examples and a set of known intents to be injected into the prompt.
1 code implementation • 8 Jul 2024 • Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, Juan Rodriguez, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Mohammad Chegini, Alexandre Drouin, Perouz Taslakian, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, David Vazquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Issam Hadj Laradji
We also compare the performance of open- and closed-source LLMs and various evaluation strategies.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2024 • Joao Monteiro, Pierre-Andre Noel, Etienne Marcotte, Sai Rajeswar, Valentina Zantedeschi, David Vazquez, Nicolas Chapados, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian
We run a large-scale benchmark comprising several state-of-the-art LLMs to uncover differences in performance across models of various types and sizes in a context-conditional language modeling setting.
2 code implementations • 12 Mar 2024 • Alexandre Drouin, Maxime Gasse, Massimo Caccia, Issam H. Laradji, Manuel Del Verme, Tom Marty, Léo Boisvert, Megh Thakkar, Quentin Cappart, David Vazquez, Nicolas Chapados, Alexandre Lacoste
We study the use of large language model-based agents for interacting with software via web browsers.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2023 • Issam Laradji, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Valentina Zantedeschi, Alexandre Lacoste, Nicolas Chapados, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Alexandre Drouin
The extraction of a small number of relevant insights from vast amounts of data is a crucial component of data-driven decision-making.
1 code implementation • 17 Dec 2023 • Juan A. Rodriguez, Abhay Puri, Shubham Agarwal, Issam H. Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Sai Rajeswar, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli
It performs image vectorization by understanding image semantics and using SVG primitives for compact, precise outputs.
no code implementations • 28 Oct 2023 • Rim Assouel, Pau Rodriguez, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Yoshua Bengio
A key aspect of human intelligence is the ability to imagine -- composing learned concepts in novel ways -- to make sense of new scenarios.
1 code implementation • 22 Aug 2023 • Charles Guille-Escuret, Pierre-André Noël, Ioannis Mitliagkas, David Vazquez, Joao Monteiro
Our findings reveal that while these methods excel in detecting unknown classes, their performance is inconsistent when encountering other types of distribution shifts.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Alexandre Lacoste, Nils Lehmann, Pau Rodriguez, Evan David Sherwin, Hannah Kerner, Björn Lütjens, Jeremy Andrew Irvin, David Dao, Hamed Alemohammad, Alexandre Drouin, Mehmet Gunturkun, Gabriel Huang, David Vazquez, Dava Newman, Yoshua Bengio, Stefano Ermon, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Recent progress in self-supervision has shown that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to substantial increases in generalization to downstream tasks.
no code implementations • 2 Jun 2023 • Stefania Raimondo, Christopher Pal, Xiaotian Liu, David Vazquez, Hector Palacios
We perform extensive experiments on the Action-Based Conversations Dataset (ABCD) with T5-small, base and large models, and show that such models: a) are able to more readily generalize to unseen workflows by following the provided plan, and b) are able to generalize to executing unseen actions if they are provided in the plan.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2023 • Juan A Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji, Marco Pedersoli, Pau Rodriguez
The generative modeling landscape has experienced tremendous growth in recent years, particularly in generating natural images and art.
no code implementations • 10 Feb 2023 • Nicolas Gontier, Pau Rodriguez, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal
Text-based game environments are challenging because agents must deal with long sequences of text, execute compositional actions using text and learn from sparse rewards.
1 code implementation • 13 Dec 2022 • Lorenzo Pellegrini, Chenchen Zhu, Fanyi Xiao, Zhicheng Yan, Antonio Carta, Matthias De Lange, Vincenzo Lomonaco, Roshan Sumbaly, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez
Continual Learning, also known as Lifelong or Incremental Learning, has recently gained renewed interest among the Artificial Intelligence research community.
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2022 • Christopher Beckham, Alexandre Piche, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal
Measuring the mean reward of generated candidates over this approximation is one such `validation metric', whereas we are interested in a more fundamental question which is finding which validation metrics correlate the most with the ground truth.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2022 • Shengchao Liu, David Vazquez, Jian Tang, Pierre-André Noël
We explore the downstream task performances for graph neural network (GNN) self-supervised learning (SSL) methods trained on subgraphs extracted from relational databases (RDBs).
no code implementations • 21 Oct 2022 • Alexandre Piche, Rafael Pardinas, David Vazquez, Igor Mordatch, Chris Pal
Despite the benefits of using implicit models to learn robotic skills via BC, offline RL via Supervised Learning algorithms have been limited to explicit models.
3 code implementations • 19 Oct 2022 • Juan A. Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji, Marco Pedersoli, Pau Rodriguez
To alleviate this problem, we present OCR-VQGAN, an image encoder, and decoder that leverages OCR pre-trained features to optimize a text perceptual loss, encouraging the architecture to preserve high-fidelity text and diagram structure.
no code implementations • 30 Aug 2022 • Joao Monteiro, Pau Rodriguez, Pierre-Andre Noel, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez
In the add-on case, the original neural network's inference head is completely unaffected (so its accuracy remains the same) but we now have the option to use TAC's own confidence and prediction when determining which course of action to take in an hypothetical production workflow.
1 code implementation • 24 May 2022 • Amine El Hattami, Stefania Raimondo, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Pau Rodriguez, Chris Pal
We propose and evaluate an approach that conditions models on the set of possible actions, and we show that using this strategy, we can improve WD performance.
Ranked #1 on Workflow Discovery on ABCD
1 code implementation • NLP4ConvAI (ACL) 2022 • Gaurav Sahu, Pau Rodriguez, Issam H. Laradji, Parmida Atighehchian, David Vazquez, Dzmitry Bahdanau
Data augmentation is a widely employed technique to alleviate the problem of data scarcity.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2022 • Christopher Beckham, Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Christopher Pal
In this paper, we explore the use of GAN-based few-shot data augmentation as a method to improve few-shot classification performance.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2021 • Alexandre Lacoste, Evan David Sherwin, Hannah Kerner, Hamed Alemohammad, Björn Lütjens, Jeremy Irvin, David Dao, Alex Chang, Mehmet Gunturkun, Alexandre Drouin, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez
Recent progress in self-supervision shows that pre-training large neural networks on vast amounts of unsupervised data can lead to impressive increases in generalisation for downstream tasks.
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Sai Rajeswar, Pau Rodriguez, Soumye Singhal, David Vazquez, Aaron Courville
We also show that MILe is effective reducing label noise, achieving state-of-the-art performance on real-world large-scale noisy data such as WebVision.
Ranked #6 on Image Classification on WebVision-1000
1 code implementation • 27 Oct 2021 • Gabriel Huang, Issam Laradji, David Vazquez, Simon Lacoste-Julien, Pau Rodriguez
Labeling data is often expensive and time-consuming, especially for tasks such as object detection and instance segmentation, which require dense labeling of the image.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2021 • Alzayat Saleh, Issam H. Laradji, Corey Lammie, David Vazquez, Carol A Flavell, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi
US images can be used to measure abdominal muscles dimensions for the diagnosis and creation of customized treatment plans for patients with Low Back Pain (LBP), however, they are difficult to interpret.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Pau Rodriguez, Soumye Singhal, David Vazquez, Aaron Courville
This ambiguity biases models towards a single prediction, which could result in the suppression of classes that tend to co-occur in the data.
1 code implementation • 21 Aug 2021 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodríguez, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
In order to obtain the viewpoints for these unlabeled images, we propose to use a Siamese network that takes two images as input and outputs whether they correspond to the same viewpoint.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2021 • Sai Rajeswar, Cyril Ibrahim, Nitin Surya, Florian Golemo, David Vazquez, Aaron Courville, Pedro O. Pinheiro
Robots in many real-world settings have access to force/torque sensors in their gripper and tactile sensing is often necessary in tasks that involve contact-rich motion.
4 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Oscar Mañas, Alexandre Lacoste, Xavier Giro-i-Nieto, David Vazquez, Pau Rodriguez
Transfer learning approaches can reduce the data requirements of deep learning algorithms.
Ranked #4 on Change Detection on OSCD - 13ch (using extra training data)
2 code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Alexandre Lacoste, Lee Zamparo, Issam Laradji, Laurent Charlin, David Vazquez
Explainability for machine learning models has gained considerable attention within the research community given the importance of deploying more reliable machine-learning systems.
1 code implementation • 18 Feb 2021 • Bahare Fatemi, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, David Poole
Embedding-based methods for reasoning in knowledge hypergraphs learn a representation for each entity and relation.
no code implementations • 1 Jan 2021 • Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Alexandre Lacoste, Lee Zamparo, Issam H. Laradji, Laurent Charlin, David Vazquez
In computer vision applications, most methods explain models by displaying the regions in the input image that they focus on for their prediction, but it is difficult to improve models based on these explanations since they do not indicate why the model fail.
1 code implementation • 14 Nov 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Freddie Kalaitzis, David Vazquez, Ross Young, Ed Davey, Alexandre Lacoste
Cattle farming is responsible for 8. 8\% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
1 code implementation • 6 Nov 2020 • Issam Laradji, Alzayat Saleh, Pau Rodriguez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Mostafa Rahimi Azghadi, David Vazquez
Leading automatic approaches rely on fully-supervised segmentation models to acquire these measurements but these require collecting per-pixel labels -- also time consuming and laborious: i. e., it can take up to two minutes per fish to generate accurate segmentation labels, almost always requiring at least some manual intervention.
1 code implementation • 14 Sep 2020 • Vincenzo Lomonaco, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Pau Rodriguez, Massimo Caccia, Qi She, Yu Chen, Quentin Jodelet, Ruiping Wang, Zheda Mai, David Vazquez, German I. Parisi, Nikhil Churamani, Marc Pickett, Issam Laradji, Davide Maltoni
In the last few years, we have witnessed a renewed and fast-growing interest in continual learning with deep neural networks with the shared objective of making current AI systems more adaptive, efficient and autonomous.
1 code implementation • 28 Aug 2020 • Alzayat Saleh, Issam H. Laradji, Dmitry A. Konovalov, Michael Bradley, David Vazquez, Marcus Sheaves
The dataset consists of approximately 40 thousand images collected underwater from 20 \green{habitats in the} marine-environments of tropical Australia.
no code implementations • 7 Jul 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Frederic Branchaud-Charron, Keegan Lensink, Parmida Atighehchian, William Parker, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
We address this challenge introducing a scalable, fast, and accurate active learning system that accelerates the labeling of CT scan images.
3 code implementations • 4 Jul 2020 • Issam Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, Oscar Mañas, Keegan Lensink, Marco Law, Lironne Kurzman, William Parker, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai
Thus, we propose a consistency-based (CB) loss function that encourages the output predictions to be consistent with spatial transformations of the input images.
1 code implementation • 3 Jul 2020 • Issam H. Laradji, Rafael Pardinas, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez
For localization, LOOC achieves a strong new baseline in the novel problem setup where only count supervision is available.
2 code implementations • 25 Jun 2020 • Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, Issam Laradji, Ismail Ben Ayed, David Vazquez, Marco Pedersoli
Data augmentation is a key practice in machine learning for improving generalization performance.
1 code implementation • 23 Mar 2020 • Sai Rajeswar, Fahim Mannan, Florian Golemo, Jérôme Parent-Lévesque, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Aaron Courville
We propose Pix2Shape, an approach to solve this problem with four components: (i) an encoder that infers the latent 3D representation from an image, (ii) a decoder that generates an explicit 2. 5D surfel-based reconstruction of a scene from the latent code (iii) a differentiable renderer that synthesizes a 2D image from the surfel representation, and (iv) a critic network trained to discriminate between images generated by the decoder-renderer and those from a training distribution.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Massimo Caccia, Pau Rodriguez, Oleksiy Ostapenko, Fabrice Normandin, Min Lin, Lucas Caccia, Issam Laradji, Irina Rish, Alexandre Lacoste, David Vazquez, Laurent Charlin
We propose Continual-MAML, an online extension of the popular MAML algorithm as a strong baseline for this scenario.
no code implementations • 2 Oct 2019 • Daniel Hernandez-Juarez, Lukas Schneider, Pau Cebrian, Antonio Espinosa, David Vazquez, Antonio M. Lopez, Uwe Franke, Marc Pollefeys, Juan C. Moure
This work presents and evaluates a novel compact scene representation based on Stixels that infers geometric and semantic information.
no code implementations • ICLR Workshop LLD 2019 • Saypraseuth Mounsaveng, David Vazquez, Ismail Ben Ayed, Marco Pedersoli
Data augmentation (DA) is fundamental against overfitting in large convolutional neural networks, especially with a limited training dataset.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2019 • Mattie Tesfaldet, Xavier Snelgrove, David Vazquez
Compositional Pattern Producing Networks (CPPNs) are differentiable networks that independently map (x, y) pixel coordinates to (r, g, b) colour values.
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2019 • Lironne Kurzman, David Vazquez, Issam Laradji
We propose a Class-Based Styling method (CBS) that can map different styles for different object classes in real-time.
1 code implementation • 2 Jul 2019 • Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Mark Schmidt
A major obstacle in instance segmentation is that existing methods often need many per-pixel labels in order to be effective.
Ranked #9 on Image-level Supervised Instance Segmentation on PASCAL VOC 2012 val (using extra training data)
Image-level Supervised Instance Segmentation Semantic Segmentation
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2019 • Issam H. Laradji, Negar Rostamzadeh, Pedro O. Pinheiro, David Vazquez, Mark Schmidt
Instance segmentation methods often require costly per-pixel labels.
1 code implementation • 1 Jun 2019 • Bahare Fatemi, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, David Poole
Knowledge graphs store facts using relations between two entities.
no code implementations • ICLR 2019 • Sai Rajeswar, Fahim Mannan, Florian Golemo, David Vazquez, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Aaron Courville
Modelling 3D scenes from 2D images is a long-standing problem in computer vision with implications in, e. g., simulation and robotics.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2019 • Guillem Cucurull, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez
How do we determine whether two or more clothing items are compatible or visually appealing?
Ranked #1 on Slot Filling on Polyvore
3 code implementations • ECCV 2018 • Issam H. Laradji, Negar Rostamzadeh, Pedro O. Pinheiro, David Vazquez, Mark Schmidt
However, we propose a detection-based method that does not need to estimate the size and shape of the objects and that outperforms regression-based methods.
Ranked #1 on Object Counting on Pascal VOC 2007 count-test
no code implementations • 29 Dec 2016 • Antonio M. Lopez, Jiaolong Xu, Jose L. Gomez, David Vazquez, German Ros
However, since the models learned with virtual data must operate in the real world, we still need to perform domain adaptation (DA).
23 code implementations • 28 Nov 2016 • Simon Jégou, Michal Drozdzal, David Vazquez, Adriana Romero, Yoshua Bengio
State-of-the-art approaches for semantic image segmentation are built on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs).
Ranked #12 on Semantic Segmentation on CamVid
1 code implementation • 15 Nov 2016 • Ishaan Gulrajani, Kundan Kumar, Faruk Ahmed, Adrien Ali Taiga, Francesco Visin, David Vazquez, Aaron Courville
Natural image modeling is a landmark challenge of unsupervised learning.
no code implementations • 9 Nov 2016 • Azadeh S. Mozafari, David Vazquez, Mansour Jamzad, Antonio M. Lopez
Random Forest (RF) is a successful paradigm for learning classifiers due to its ability to learn from large feature spaces and seamlessly integrate multi-class classification, as well as the achieved accuracy and processing efficiency.
no code implementations • CVPR 2016 • German Ros, Laura Sellart, Joanna Materzynska, David Vazquez, Antonio M. Lopez
In order to answer this question we have generated a synthetic collection of diverse urban images, named SYNTHIA, with automatically generated class annotations.
no code implementations • 22 Aug 2014 • Jiaolong Xu, Sebastian Ramos, David Vazquez, Antonio M. Lopez
In both cases, we show how HA-SSVM is effective in increasing the detection/recognition accuracy with respect to adaptation strategies that ignore the structure of the target data.