Issam H. Laradji
Research Manager
AI Frontier Research
Issam Laradji is a research scientist at ServiceNow Research who focuses on methods that minimize the amount of labels required to efficiently train machine learning models. He completed his postdoc at McGill’s Graphics lab and completed his PhD at the Machine Learning lab of University of British Columbia. His current topics of interest are natural language processing, computer vision (both 2D and 3D), and optimization. On the side, he continuously works on Haven-AI, a toolkit to help people build end-to-end deep learning methods and manage large-scale experiments.
Intérêts
- Low Supervision
- Summarization
- Text Classification
- Optimization
Publications
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.
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.
InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation.
Gaurav Sahu,
Abhay Puri,
Juan A. Rodriguez,
Amirhossein Abaskohi,
Mohammad (Aaron) Chegini ,
Alexandre Drouin,
Perouz Taslakian,
Valentina Zantedeschi,
Alexandre Lacoste,
David Vazquez,
Nicolas Chapados,
Christopher Pal,
Sai Rajeswar Mudumba,
Issam H. Laradji. At
International Conference of Learning Representations (ICLR),
2025.
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.
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.
The Unsolved Challenges of LLMs in Open-Ended Web Tasks: A Case Study.
Rim Assouel,
Tom Marty,
Massimo Caccia,
Issam H. Laradji,
Alexandre Drouin,
Sai Rajeswar Mudumba,
Hector Palacios,
Quentin Cappart,
David Vazquez,
Nicolas Chapados,
Maxime Gasse,
Alexandre Lacoste. At
Workshop at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2023.
Kubric: A scalable dataset generator.
Klaus Greff,
Francois Belletti,
Lucas Beyer,
Carl Doersch,
Yilun Du,
Daniel Duckworth,
David J. Fleet,
Dan Gnanapragasam,
Florian Golemo,
Charles Herrmann,
Thomas Kipf,
Abhijit Kundu,
Dmitry Lagun,
Issam H. Laradji,
Hsueh-Ti (Derek)Liu,
Henning Meyer,
Yishu Miao,
Derek Nowrouzezahrai,
Cengiz Oztireli,
Etienne Pot,
Noha Radwan,
Daniel Rebain,
Sara Sabour,
Mehdi S. M. Sajjadi,
Matan Sela,
Vincent Sitzmann,
Austin Stone,
Deqing Sun,
Suhani Vora,
Ziyu Wang,
Tianhao Wu,
Kwang Moo Yi,
Fangcheng Zhong,
Andrea Tagliasacchi. At
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
2022.
Online Fast Adaptation and Knowledge Accumulation: a New Approach to Continual Learning.
Massimo Caccia,
Pau Rodriguez,
Oleksiy Ostapenko,
Fabrice Normandin,
Min Lin,
Lucas Caccia,
Issam H. Laradji,
Irina Rish,
Alexandre Lacoste,
David Vazquez,
Laurent Charlin. At
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2020.
Synbols: Probing Learning Algorithms with Synthetic Datasets.
Alexandre Lacoste,
Pau Rodriguez,
Frederic Branchaud,
Parmida Atighhehchian,
Massimo Caccia,
Issam H. Laradji,
Alexandre Drouin,
Matt Craddock,
Laurent Charlin,
David Vazquez. At
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),
2020.
CVPR 2020 Continual Learning in Computer Vision Competition: Approaches, Results, Current Challenges and Future Directions.
Vincenzo Lomonaco,
Lorenzo Pellegrini,
Pau Rodriguez,
Massimo Caccia,
Qi She,
Yu Chen,
Quentin Jodelet,
Ruiping Wang,
Zheda Mai,
David Vazquez,
German I. Parisi,
Nikhil Churamani,
Marc Pickett,
Issam H. Laradji,
Davide Maltoni. At
Artificial Intelligence Journal,
2020.
Online Fast Adaptation and Knowledge Accumulation: a New Approach to Continual Learning.
Massimo Caccia,
Pau Rodriguez,
Oleksiy Ostapenko,
Fabrice Normandin,
Min Lin,
Lucas Caccia,
Issam H. Laradji,
Irina Rish,
Alexandre Lacoste,
David Vazquez,
Laurent Charlin. At
Workshop at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
2020.
Synbols: Probing Learning Algorithms with Synthetic Datasets.
Alexandre Lacoste,
Pau Rodriguez,
Frédéric Branchaud-Charron,
Parmida Atighhehchian,
Massimo Caccia,
Issam H. Laradji,
Alexandre Drouin,
Matt Craddock,
Laurent Charlin,
David Vazquez. At
Montreal AI Symposium (MAIS),
2018.