Akshay Kalkunte

Publications

AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding. Ahmed Masry, Juan A. Rodriguez, Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Chao Wang, Aarash Feizi, Akshay Kalkunte, Abhay Puri, Xiangru Jian, Pierre-André Noël, Sathwik Madhusudhan, Marco Pedersoli, Bang Liu, Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Enamul Hoque Prince , Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba. At Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

ColMate: Contrastive Late Interaction and Masked Text for Multimodal Document Retrieval. Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Béchard, Sathwik Madhusudhan, Rabiul Awal, Shambhavi Mishra, Akshay Kalkunte, Enamul Hoque Prince , Spandana Gella, Torsten Scholak, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba. At Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2025.

AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Understanding. Ahmed Masry, Juan A. Rodriguez, Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Chao Wang, Aarash Feizi, Akshay Kalkunte, Abhay Puri, Xiangru Jian, Pierre-André Noël, Sathwik Madhusudhan, Marco Pedersoli, Bang Liu, Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Enamul Hoque Prince , Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba. At Workshop at the International Conference of Learning Representation (ICLR), 2025.

BigDocs: An Open and Permissively-Licensed Dataset for Training Multimodal Models on Document and Code Tasks. Juan A. Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay Kalkunte, Francois Savard, Ahmed Masry, Shravan Nayak, Rabiul Awal, Mahsa Massoud, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Zichao Li, Suyuchen Wang, Pierre-André Noël, Mats L. Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Shubham Agarwal, Sanket Biswas, Sara Shanian, Ying Zhang, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, João Monteiro, Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Torsten Scholak, Nicolas Chapados, Sepideh Kharaghani, Sean Hughes, Tamer Özsu, Siva Reddy, Marco Pedersoli, Yoshua Bengio, Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, Spandana Gella, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba. At International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

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BigDocs: A Permissively-Licensed Dataset for Training Vision-Language Models on Document and Code Tasks. Juan A. Rodriguez, Xiangru Jian, Siba Smarak Panigrahi, Tianyu Zhang, Aarash Feizi, Abhay Puri, Akshay Kalkunte, Francois Savard, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Ahmed Masry, Shravan Nayak, Mahsa Massoud, Rabiul Awal, Pierre-André Noël, Mats L. Richter, Saverio Vadacchino, Shubham Agarwal, Sanket Biswas, Ying Zhang, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, João Monteiro, Krishnamurthy (Dj) Dvijotham, Torsten Scholak, Nicolas Chapados, Sean Hughes, Tamer Özsu, Aishwarya Agrawal, Marco Pedersoli, Christopher Pal, Perouz Taslakian, David Vazquez, Issam H. Laradji, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba. At Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

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