no code implementations • 10 Jul 2024 • Gaurav Sahu, Issam H. Laradji
Low-resource extractive text summarization is a vital but heavily underexplored area of research.
no code implementations • 25 Jun 2024 • Amrutha Varshini Ramesh, Vignesh Ganapathiraman, Issam H. Laradji, Mark Schmidt
Our method carefully selects and updates a very small subset of the trainable parameters without altering any part of its architecture and training procedure.
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.
1 code implementation • 2 Feb 2024 • Shubham Agarwal, Issam H. Laradji, Laurent Charlin, Christopher Pal
Conducting literature reviews for scientific papers is essential for understanding research, its limitations, and building on existing work.
1 code implementation • 17 Dec 2023 • Juan A. Rodriguez, Shubham Agarwal, Issam H. Laradji, Pau Rodriguez, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Marco Pedersoli
These visual tokens are pre-pended to the SVG token embeddings, and the sequence is modeled by the StarCoder model using next-token prediction, effectively learning to align the visual and code tokens.
no code implementations • 19 Nov 2023 • Nishant Mishra, Gaurav Sahu, Iacer Calixto, Ameen Abu-Hanna, Issam H. Laradji
Generating high-quality summaries for chat dialogs often requires large labeled datasets.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2023 • Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Issam H. Laradji
While SSL is popular for image and text classification, it is relatively underexplored for the task of extractive text summarization.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2023 • Gaurav Sahu, Olga Vechtomova, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Issam H. Laradji
Our specific PromptMix method consists of two steps: 1) generate challenging text augmentations near class boundaries; however, generating borderline examples increases the risk of false positives in the dataset, so we 2) relabel the text augmentations using a prompting-based LLM classifier to enhance the correctness of labels in the generated data.
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.
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 • 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.
no code implementations • 28 Sep 2020 • Sharan Vaswani, Issam H. Laradji, Frederik Kunstner, Si Yi Meng, Mark Schmidt, Simon Lacoste-Julien
Under an interpolation assumption, we prove that AMSGrad with a constant step-size and momentum can converge to the minimizer at the faster $O(1/T)$ rate for smooth, convex functions.
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.
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.
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 • 16 May 2019 • Issam H. Laradji, Mark Schmidt, Vladimir Pavlovic, Minyoung Kim
The key advantage is that the combination of GP and DRF leads to a tractable model that can both handle a variable-sized input as well as learn deep long-range dependency structures of the data.
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 • 1 Jun 2015 • Julie Nutini, Mark Schmidt, Issam H. Laradji, Michael Friedlander, Hoyt Koepke
There has been significant recent work on the theory and application of randomized coordinate descent algorithms, beginning with the work of Nesterov [SIAM J.