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cs.CL2025

ColMate: Contrastive Late Interaction and Masked Text for Multimodal Document Retrieval

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Bechard +9

Retrieval-augmented generation has proven practical when models require specialized knowledge or access to the latest data. However, existing methods for multimodal document retrie…

cs.CL2025

FocusAgent: Simple Yet Effective Ways of Trimming the Large Context of Web Agents

Imene Kerboua, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Megh Thakkar +7

Web agents powered by large language models (LLMs) must process lengthy web page observations to complete user goals; these pages often exceed tens of thousands of tokens. This sat…

cs.CL2025

BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning

Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi +13

Charts are essential to data analysis, transforming raw data into clear visual representations that support human decision-making. Although current vision-language models (VLMs) ha…

cs.CL2025

LineRetriever: Planning-Aware Observation Reduction for Web Agents

Imene Kerboua, Sahar Omidi Shayegan, Megh Thakkar +6

While large language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in web navigation tasks, the extensive context of web pages, often represented as DOM or Accessibility Tree (A…

cs.CL2024

Too Big to Fool: Resisting Deception in Language Models

Mohammad Reza Samsami, Mats Leon Richter, Juan Rodriguez +3

Large language models must balance their weight-encoded knowledge with in-context information from prompts to generate accurate responses. This paper investigates this interplay by…

cs.CL2024

A Deep Dive into the Trade-Offs of Parameter-Efficient Preference Alignment Techniques

Megh Thakkar, Quentin Fournier, Matthew D Riemer +4

Large language models are first pre-trained on trillions of tokens and then instruction-tuned or aligned to specific preferences. While pre-training remains out of reach for most r…