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Perouz Taslakian

16 accepted papers

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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2026

Hierarchical Retrieval at Scale: Bridging Transparency and Efficiency

ICML 2026poster

Information retrieval is a core component of many intelligent systems as it enables conditioning of outputs on new and large-scale datasets. While effective, the standard practice of encoding data into high-dimensional representations for similarity search entails large memory and compute footprints…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
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

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

Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation

NeurIPS 2025poster

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) offer a powerful format for representing visual designs as interpretable code. Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled high-quality SVG generation by framing the problem as a code generation task and leveraging large-scale pretraining. VLMs are pa…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
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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2025

VCR: A Task for Pixel-Level Complex Reasoning in Vision Language Models via Restoring Occluded Text

ICLR 2025poster

We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images through complex reasoning. This task stems from the observation that text embedded in images intrinsically differs f…

2025

WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation

EMNLP 2025

We present WebMMU, a multilingual benchmark that evaluates three core web tasks: (1) website visual question answering, (2) code editing involving HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and (3) mockup-to-code generation. Unlike prior benchmarks that treat these tasks separately, WebMMU unifies them using expert-annot

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2024

A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning

ICML 2024poster

Causal representation learning aims at identifying high-level causal variables from perceptual data. Most methods assume that all latent causal variables are captured in the high-dimensional observations. We instead consider a partially observed setting, in which each measurement only provides infor…

2024

Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability

ICLR 2024spotlight

We present a unified framework for studying the identifiability of representations learned from simultaneously observed views, such as different data modalities. We allow a partially observed setting in which each view constitutes a nonlinear mixture of a subset of underlying latent variables, which…

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

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…

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2020

Knowledge Hypergraphs: Prediction Beyond Binary Relations

IJCAI 2020poster

Knowledge graphs store facts using relations between two entities. In this work, we address the question of link prediction in knowledge hypergraphs where relations are defined on any number of entities. While techniques exist (such as reification) that convert non-binary relations into binary ones,…

2017

Efficient multi-robot coverage of a known environment

IROS 2017poster

This paper addresses the complete area coverage problem of a known environment by multiple-robots. Complete area coverage is the problem of moving an end-effector over all available space while avoiding existing obstacles. In such tasks, using multiple robots can increase the efficiency of the area…

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