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Christopher Pal

Polytechnique Montréal, QC, Canada

25 papers at tracked venues · 16 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ICLR ×6NeurIPS ×5CVPR ×2EACL ×2EMNLP ×2AAAI ×1AAMAS ×1ACL ×1ICML ×1ICRA ×1InterSpeech ×1MICCAI ×1NAACL ×1

Frequent coauthors

David Vázquez
×10
Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
×10
Juan A. Rodríguez
×9
Perouz Taslakian
×8
Spandana Gella
×5
Abhay Puri
×5
Nicolas Chapados
×5
Ge Ya Luo
×4
Marco Pedersoli
×4
Issam H. Laradji
×4
Aditya Sharma
×3
Aarash Feizi
×3

Papers

  1. Generative Floor Plan Design with LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
    ACL 2026 ·
    Luis Lara
    ,
    Aristides Milios
    ,
    Zhi Hao Luo
    ,
    Aditya Sharma
    ,
    Ge Ya Luo
    ,
    Christopher Beckham
    ,
    Florian Golemo
    , Christopher Pal
  2. Reducing Hallucinations in Language Model-based SPARQL Query Generation Using Post-Generation Memory Retrieval
    EACL 2026 ·
    Aditya Sharma
    , Christopher Pal,
    Amal Zouaq
  3. StarFlow: Generating Structured Workflow Outputs From Sketch Images
    EACL 2026 ·
    Patrice Béchard
    ,
    Chao Wang
    ,
    Amirhossein Abaskohi
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    , Christopher Pal,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Spandana Gella
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar
    ,
    Perouz Taslakian
  4. AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces for Multimodal Document Understanding
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Ahmed Masry
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Tianyu Zhang
    ,
    Suyuchen Wang
    ,
    Chao Wang
    ,
    Aarash Feizi
    ,
    Akshay Kalkunte Suresh
    ,
    Abhay Puri
    ,
    Xiangru Jian
    ,
    Pierre-André Noël
    ,
    Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan
    ,
    Marco Pedersoli
    ,
    Bang Liu
    ,
    Nicolas Chapados
    ,
    Yoshua Bengio
    ,
    Enamul Hoque
    , Chris Pal,
    Issam Hadj Laradji
    ,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Perouz Taslakian
    ,
    Spandana Gella
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
  5. Beyond FVD: An Enhanced Evaluation Metrics for Video Generation Distribution Quality
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Ge Ya Luo
    ,
    Gian Mario Favero
    ,
    Zhi Hao Luo
    ,
    Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau
    , Christopher Pal
  6. CarbonSense: A Multimodal Dataset and Baseline for Carbon Flux Modelling
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Matthew Fortier
    ,
    Mats Leon Richter
    ,
    Oliver Sonnentag
    , Christopher Pal
  7. GeoCoder: Solving Geometry Problems by Generating Modular Code through Vision-Language Models
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Aditya Sharma
    ,
    Aman Dalmia
    ,
    Mehran Kazemi
    ,
    Amal Zouaq
    , Christopher Pal
  8. InsightBench: Evaluating Business Analytics Agents Through Multi-Step Insight Generation
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Gaurav Sahu
    ,
    Abhay Puri
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Amirhossein Abaskohi
    ,
    Mohammad Chegini
    ,
    Alexandre Drouin
    ,
    Perouz Taslakian
    ,
    Valentina Zantedeschi
    ,
    Alexandre Lacoste
    ,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Nicolas Chapados
    , Christopher Pal,
    Sai Rajeswar
    ,
    Issam H. Laradji
  9. MapBot: A Multi-Modal Agent for Geospatial Analysis
    AAMAS 2025 ·
    Martin Weiss
    ,
    Nasim Rahaman
    , Chris Pal
  10. ParetoFlow: Guided Flows in Multi-Objective Optimization
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Ye Yuan
    ,
    Can Chen
    , Christopher Pal,
    Xue Liu
  11. Rendering-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Vector Graphics Generation
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Haotian Zhang
    ,
    Abhay Puri
    ,
    Rishav Pramanik
    ,
    Aarash Feizi
    ,
    Pascal Wichmann
    ,
    Arnab Kumar Mondal
    ,
    Mohammad Reza Samsami
    ,
    Rabiul Awal
    ,
    Perouz Taslakian
    ,
    Spandana Gella
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
    ,
    David Vázquez
    , Chris Pal,
    Marco Pedersoli
  12. Scenario Dreamer: Vectorized Latent Diffusion for Generating Driving Simulation Environments
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Luke Rowe
    ,
    Roger Girgis
    ,
    Anthony Gosselin
    ,
    Liam Paull
    , Christopher Pal,
    Felix Heide
  13. Seq-VCR: Preventing Collapse in Intermediate Transformer Representations for Enhanced Reasoning
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Md Rifat Arefin
    ,
    Gopeshh Subbaraj
    ,
    Nicolas Gontier
    ,
    Yann LeCun
    ,
    Irina Rish
    ,
    Ravid Shwartz-Ziv
    , Christopher Pal
  14. Spatio-Temporal Conditional Diffusion Models for Forecasting Future Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Masks Conditioned on Treatments
    MICCAI 2025 ·
    Gian Mario Favero
    ,
    Ge Ya Luo
    ,
    Nima Fathi
    ,
    Justin Szeto
    ,
    Douglas L. Arnold
    ,
    Brennan Nichyporuk
    , Chris Pal,
    Tal Arbel
  15. StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Abhay Puri
    ,
    Shubham Agarwal
    ,
    Issam H. Laradji
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar
    ,
    David Vázquez
    , Christopher Pal,
    Marco Pedersoli
  16. StarVector: Generating Scalable Vector Graphics Code from Images and Text
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Abhay Puri
    ,
    Shubham Agarwal
    ,
    Issam H. Laradji
    ,
    Pau Rodríguez
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar
    ,
    David Vázquez
    , Christopher Pal,
    Marco Pedersoli
  17. The NaijaVoices Dataset: Cultivating Large-Scale, High-Quality, Culturally-Rich Speech Data for African Languages
    InterSpeech 2025 ·
    Chris Emezue
    ,
    NaijaVoices Community
    ,
    Busayo Awobade
    ,
    Abraham Toluwase Owodunni
    ,
    Handel Emezue
    ,
    Gloria Monica Tobechukwu Emezue
    ,
    Nefertiti Nneoma Emezue
    ,
    Sewade Ogun
    ,
    Bunmi Akinremi
    ,
    David Ifeoluwa Adelani
    , Chris Pal
  18. The Promise of RL for Autoregressive Image Editing
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Saba Ahmadi
    ,
    Rabiul Awal
    ,
    Ankur Sikarwar
    ,
    Amirhossein Kazemnejad
    ,
    Ge Ya Luo
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
    ,
    Siva Reddy
    , Chris Pal,
    Benno Krojer
    ,
    Aishwarya Agrawal
  19. UI-Vision: A Desktop-centric GUI Benchmark for Visual Perception and Interaction
    ICML 2025 ·
    Shravan Nayak
    ,
    Xiangru Jian
    ,
    Kevin Qinghong Lin
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Montek Kalsi
    ,
    Nicolas Chapados
    ,
    M. Tamer Özsu
    ,
    Aishwarya Agrawal
    ,
    David Vázquez
    , Christopher Pal,
    Perouz Taslakian
    ,
    Spandana Gella
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar
  20. WebMMU: A Benchmark for Multimodal Multilingual Website Understanding and Code Generation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Rabiul Awal
    ,
    Mahsa Massoud
    ,
    Aarash Feizi
    ,
    Zichao Li
    ,
    Suyuchen Wang
    , Christopher Pal,
    Aishwarya Agrawal
    ,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Siva Reddy
    ,
    Juan A. Rodríguez
    ,
    Perouz Taslakian
    ,
    Spandana Gella
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar
  21. Learning Action and Reasoning-Centric Image Editing from Videos and Simulation
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Benno Krojer
    ,
    Dheeraj Vattikonda
    ,
    Luis Lara
    ,
    Varun Jampani
    ,
    Eva Portelance
    , Chris Pal,
    Siva Reddy
  22. Reinforcement Learning for Blind Stair Climbing with Legged and Wheeled-Legged Robots
    ICRA 2024 ·
    Simon Chamorro
    ,
    Victor Klemm
    ,
    Miguel de la Iglesia Valls
    , Christopher Pal,
    Roland Siegwart
  23. RepLiQA: A Question-Answering Dataset for Benchmarking LLMs on Unseen Reference Content
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    João Monteiro
    ,
    Pierre-André Noël
    ,
    Étienne Marcotte
    ,
    Sai Rajeswar Mudumba
    ,
    Valentina Zantedeschi
    ,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Nicolas Chapados
    , Chris Pal,
    Perouz Taslakian
  24. Würstchen: An Efficient Architecture for Large-Scale Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Pablo Pernias
    ,
    Dominic Rampas
    ,
    Mats L. Richter
    , Christopher Pal,
    Marc Aubreville
  25. XC-Cache: Cross-Attending to Cached Context for Efficient LLM Inference
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    João Monteiro
    ,
    Étienne Marcotte
    ,
    Pierre-André Noël
    ,
    Valentina Zantedeschi
    ,
    David Vázquez
    ,
    Nicolas Chapados
    , Christopher Pal,
    Perouz Taslakian