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Nicolas Chapados

17 accepted papers

2026

DRBench: A Realistic Benchmark for Enterprise Deep Research

ICLR 2026poster

We introduce DRBench, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on complex, open-ended deep research tasks in enterprise settings. Unlike prior benchmarks that focus on simple questions or web-only queries, DRBench evaluates agents on multi-step queries (for example, "What changes should we make to our p…

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2026

Grounding Computer Use Agents on Human Demonstrations

ICLR 2026poster

Building reliable computer-use agents requires grounding: accurately connecting natural language instructions to the correct on-screen elements. While large datasets exist for web and mobile interactions, high-quality resources for desktop environments are limited. To address this gap, we introduce…

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2025

AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding

NeurIPS 2025poster

Aligning visual features with language embeddings is a key challenge in vision-language models (VLMs). The performance of such models hinges on having a good connector that maps visual features generated by a vision encoder to a shared embedding space with the LLM while preserving semantic similarit…

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2025

BigDocs: An Open Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal AI has the potential to significantly enhance document-understanding tasks, such as processing receipts, understanding workflows, extracting data from documents, and summarizing reports. Code generation tasks that require long-structured outputs can also be enhanced by multimodality. Desp…

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2025

Context is Key: A Benchmark for Forecasting with Essential Textual Information

ICML 2025poster

Forecasting is a critical task in decision-making across numerous domains. While historical numerical data provide a start, they fail to convey the complete context for reliable and accurate predictions. Human forecasters frequently rely on additional information, such as background knowledge and co…

2025

InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation

ICLR 2025poster

Data analytics is essential for extracting valuable insights from data that can assist organizations in making effective decisions. We introduce InsightBench, a benchmark dataset with three key features. First, it consists of 100 datasets representing diverse business use cases such as finance and i…

2025

UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction

ICML 2025poster

Autonomous agents that navigate Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to automate tasks like document editing and file management can greatly enhance computer workflows. While existing research focuses on online settings, desktop environments, critical for many professional and everyday tasks, remain und…

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2024

RepLiQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content

NeurIPS 2024poster

Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on vast amounts of data, most of which is automatically scraped from the internet. This data includes encyclopedic documents that harbor a vast amount of general knowledge (*e.g.*, Wikipedia) but also potentially overlap with benchmark datasets used for evalu…

2024

TACTiS-2: Better, Faster, Simpler Attentional Copulas for Multivariate Time Series

ICLR 2024poster

We introduce a new model for multivariate probabilistic time series prediction, designed to flexibly address a range of tasks including forecasting, interpolation, and their combinations. Building on copula theory, we propose a simplified objective for the recently-introduced transformer-based atten…

2024

WorkArena++: Towards Compositional Planning and Reasoning-based Common Knowledge Work Tasks

NeurIPS 2024poster

The ability of large language models (LLMs) to mimic human-like intelligence has led to a surge in LLM-based autonomous agents. Though recent LLMs seem capable of planning and reasoning given user instructions, their effectiveness in applying these capabilities for autonomous task solving remains u…

2024

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

ICML 2024poster

We study the use of large language model-based agents for interacting with software via web browsers. Unlike prior work, we focus on measuring the agents' ability to perform tasks that span the typical daily work of knowledge workers utilizing enterprise software systems. To this end, we propose Wor…

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2024

XC-Cache: Cross-Attending to Cached Context for Efficient LLM Inference

EMNLP 2024finding

Prompts are often employed to condition decoder-only language model generation on reference information. Just-in-time processing of a context is inefficient due to the quadratic cost of self-attention operations, and caching is desirable. However, caching transformer states can easily require almost…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2023

Regions of Reliability in the Evaluation of Multivariate Probabilistic Forecasts

ICML 2023poster

Multivariate probabilistic time series forecasts are commonly evaluated via proper scoring rules, i.e., functions that are minimal in expectation for the ground-truth distribution. However, this property is not sufficient to guarantee good discrimination in the non-asymptotic regime. In this paper,…

2022

TACTiS: Transformer-Attentional Copulas for Time Series

ICML 2022spotlight

The estimation of time-varying quantities is a fundamental component of decision making in fields such as healthcare and finance. However, the practical utility of such estimates is limited by how accurately they quantify predictive uncertainty. In this work, we address the problem of estimating the…

2021

Meta-Learning Framework with Applications to Zero-Shot Time-Series Forecasting

AAAI 2021technical

Can meta-learning discover generic ways of processing time series (TS) from a diverse dataset so as to greatly improve generalization on new TS coming from different datasets? This work provides positive evidence to this using a broad meta-learning framework which we show subsumes many existing meta…

Cited by 133SourcePDFScholar
2020

N-BEATS: Neural basis expansion analysis for interpretable time series forecasting

ICLR 2020poster

We focus on solving the univariate times series point forecasting problem using deep learning. We propose a deep neural architecture based on backward and forward residual links and a very deep stack of fully-connected layers. The architecture has a number of desirable properties, being interpretabl…

Cited by 1691SourceScholar
2019

Learning to Learn with Conditional Class Dependencies

ICLR 2019poster

Neural networks can learn to extract statistical properties from data, but they seldom make use of structured information from the label space to help representation learning. Although some label structure can implicitly be obtained when training on huge amounts of data, in a few-shot learning conte…

Cited by 96SourcePDFScholar