Perouz Taslakian
Research Lead
Frontier AI Research
Perouz Taslakian is a research scientist at ServiceNow AI Research leading the Enterprise Reliability Program that focuses on AI systems that are secure, privacy preserving, and grounded in enterprise data. She also holds an Adjunct Professor position at McGill University and is an Associate Industry Member at MILA. Previously, she held research and leadership positions at Element AI, Samsung AI Lab, and Morgan Stanley. She also served as a professor at the American University of Armenia, where she chaired the BSc in Computational Sciences program (now Computer Science) within the College of Science and Engineering. Perouz completed her PhD in Computer Science at McGill University under the supervision of Luc Devroye and Godfried Toussaint, focusing on discrete and computational geometry. Her current research focuses on enhancing the reliability of computer-use agents capable of perceiving, understanding, and acting across diverse digital environments.
Interests
- Machine Learning
- Theory of Machine Learning
- Causality
- Multimodal Models
Publications
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2025.
Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation.
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2025.
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding.
NOW AI,
2025.
WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),
2025.
BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning.
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM),
2025.
BiXSE: Improving Dense Retrieval via Probabilistic Graded Relevance Distillation.
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM),
2025.
UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2025.
WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation.
Workshop at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR),
2025.
AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Understanding.
Workshop at the International Conference of Learning Representation (ICLR),
2025.
Learning to Defer for Causal Discovery with Imperfect Experts.
Workshop at the International Conference of Learning Representation (ICLR),
2025.
WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation.
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.
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),
2025.
InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation.
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),
2025.
VCR: Visual Caption Restoration.
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),
2025.
BigDocs: A Permissively-Licensed Dataset for Training Vision-Language Models on Document and Code Tasks.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2024.
RepLiQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content.
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks Track (NeurIPS Datasets),
2024.
VCR: Visual Caption Restoration.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2024.
XC-Cache: Cross-Attending to Cached Context for Efficient LLM Inference.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2024.
XC-Cache: Cross-Attending to Cached Context for Efficient LLM Inference.
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP),
2024.
A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal Representation Learning.
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2024.
Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability.
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),
2024.
A Sparsity Principle for Partially Observable Causal.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2023.
Capture the Flag: Uncovering Data Insights with Large Language Models.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2023.
Multi-View Causal Representation Learning with Partial Observability.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2023.
Explaining Graph Neural Networks Using Interpretable Local Surrogates.
Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2023.
OC-NMN: Object-centric Compositional Neural Module Network for Generative Visual Analogical Reasoning.
Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2023.
Knowledge Hypergraph Embedding Meets Relational Algebra.
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR),
2023.
Object-centric Compositional Imagination for Visual Abstract Reasoning.
Workshop at the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR),
2022.
Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery - theory and algorithms.
Causal Learning and Reasoning (CLeaR),
2022.
Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery - Report and comments on future directions.
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2021.
Typing assumptions improve identification in causal discovery.
Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML),
2021.
Knowledge Hypergraphs: Prediction Beyond Binary Relations.
International Join Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI),
2020.
Knowledge Hypergraphs: Prediction Beyond Binary Relations.
Workshop at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
2020.
Knowledge Hypergraphs: Prediction Beyond Binary Relations.
Women in Machine Learning (WiML),
2019.
Context-Aware Visual Compatibility Prediction.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
2019.
Efficient Multi-Robot Coverage of a Known Environment.
International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),
2017.
Continuous Yao Graphs.
Journal on Computational Geometry (CG),
2017.