Tianyu Zhang

Visiting Researcher

AI Frontier Research

Tianyu Zhang is a Ph.D. student supervised by Prof. Yoshua Bengio at Mila. He leads the RICE-N project which wins Netexplo Innovation Award in 2023. His research interests include Algorithmic Game Theory, Agent-based Model Simulator, AI for Climate Change, Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning, Modular Deep Learning etc. Previously, he worked as a quantitative researcher in financial engineering. Please feel free to contact him if you are interested in his work.

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.

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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.

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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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VCR: Visual Caption Restoration. Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Lu Li, Ge Zhang, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Jie Fu, Bang Liu, Yoshua Bengio. 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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VCR: Visual Caption Restoration. Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Lu Li, Ge Zhang, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Jie Fu, Bang Liu, Yoshua Bengio. At Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2024.

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