Patrice Béchard

Publications

StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs From Sketch Images. Patrice Béchard, Chao Wang, Juan A. Rodriguez, Amirhossein Abaskohi, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Perouz Taslakian. At European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), 2026.

AgentLab Controller: Level Up Your Web Agent with Step-Through Debugging. Patrice Béchard, Orlando Marquez, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste. 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.

Hinting Around: Helping Web Agents Solve Tasks via Hints. Orlando Marquez, Patrice Béchard, Alexandre Drouin, Alexandre Lacoste. At NOW AI, 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.