Megh Thakkar

Publications

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis. Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis. Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning With Visual Reinforcement Finetuning. Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Perouz Taslakian, Ahmed Masry, David Vazquez, Christopher Pal, Abhay Puri, Megh Thakkar, Masoud Hashemi, Khyati Mahajan, Spandana Gella. At NOW AI, 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.

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis. Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At NOW AI, 2025.

BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning. Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi, Juan A. Rodriguez, Megh Thakkar, Khyati Mahajan, Vikas Yadav, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Alexandre Piche, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Enamul Hoque Prince , Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Spandana Gella. At Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025.

How to Train Your LLM Web Agent: A Statistical Diagnosis (Oral). Dheeraj Vattikonda, Santhoshi Ravichandran, Emiliano Penaloza, Hadi Nekoei, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Megh Thakkar, Nicolas Gontier, Miguel Muñoz-Mármol, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Stefania Raimondo, Xue Steve Liu, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Piche, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Workshop at the International Conference of Machine Learning (ICML), 2025.

The BrowserGym Ecosystem for Web Agent Research. Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Maxime Gasse, Alexandre Drouin, Massimo Caccia, Léo Boisvert, Megh Thakkar, Tom Marty, Rim Assouel, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Siva Reddy, Quentin Cappart, Graham Neubig, Nicolas Chapados, Alexandre Lacoste. At Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2025.

AgentMerge: Enhancing Generalization in Fine-Tuned LLM Agents. Megh Thakkar, Léo Boisvert, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Alexandre Piche, Maxime Gasse, Alexandre Lacoste, Massimo Caccia. At Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

Fine-Tuning Web Agents: It Works, But It's Trickier Than You Think. Massimo Caccia, Megh Thakkar, Léo Boisvert, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Alexandre Piche, Nicolas Chapados, Alexandre Drouin, Maxime Gasse, Alexandre Lacoste. At Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

WorkArena++: Towards Compositional Planning and Reasoning-based Common Knowledge Work Tasks. Léo Boisvert, Megh Thakkar, Maxime Gasse, Massimo Caccia, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Quentin Cappart, Nicolas Chapados, Alexandre Lacoste, Alexandre Drouin. At NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track (NeurIPS Datasets), 2024.

Fine-Tuning Web Agents: It Works, But It's Trickier Than You Think. Massimo Caccia, Megh Thakkar, Léo Boisvert, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Alexandre Piche, Nicolas Chapados, Alexandre Drouin, Maxime Gasse, Alexandre Lacoste. At NOW AI Conference (NOWAI), 2024.

An Ecosystem for Web Agents: WorkArena, BrowserGym, AgentLab and more. Alexandre Lacoste, Maxime Gasse, Thibault Le Sellier De Chezelles, Massimo Caccia, Léo Boisvert, Megh Thakkar, Alexandre Drouin, Nicolas Chapados. At Montreal AI Symposium (MAIS), 2024.

WorkArena: How Capable are Web Agents at Solving Common Knowledge Work Tasks?. 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. At International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024.