Patrice Béchard

Publications

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.

Fine-Tune an SLM or Prompt an LLM? The Case of Generating Low-Code Workflows. Orlando Marquez, Patrice Béchard, Emily Chen, Maggie Baird, JingFei Chen. At Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025.

Multi-task retriever fine-tuning for domain-specific and efficient RAG. Patrice Béchard, Orlando Marquez. At Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025.

Generating a Low-code Complete Workflow via Task Decomposition and RAG. Orlando Marquez, Patrice Béchard. At Conference on AI Engineering (CAIN), 2025.

Reducing hallucination in structured outputs via Retrieval-Augmented Generation. Patrice Béchard, Orlando Marquez. At North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2024.