Publications

Conference Publications

2026

DashboardQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Agents for Question Answering on Interactive Dashboards

Aaryaman Kartha, Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Thinh Lang, Shadikur Rahman, Ridwan Mahbub, Mizanur Rahman, Mahir Ahmed, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2026)

EACL 2026

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2025

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 Suresh, Abhay Puri, Xiangru Jian, Pierre-André Noël, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Marco Pedersoli, Bang Liu, Nicolas Chapados, Yoshua Bengio, Enamul Hoque, Christopher Pal, Issam H. Laradji, David Vazquez, Perouz Taslakian, Spandana Gella, Sai Rajeswar (2025)

NeurIPS 2025

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BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning

Ahmed Masry, Abhay Puri, Masoud Hashemi, Juan A Rodriguez, Megh Thakkar, Khyati Mahajan, Vikas Yadav, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Alexandre Piché, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Christopher Pal, David Vazquez, Enamul Hoque, Perouz Taslakian, Sai Rajeswar, Spandana Gella (2025)

COLM 2025

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ChartQAPro: A more diverse and challenging benchmark for chart question answering

Ahmed Masry, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Mahir Ahmed, Aayush Bajaj, Firoz Kabir, Aaryaman Kartha, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mizanur Rahman, Shadikur Rahman, Mehrad Shahmohammadi, Megh Thakkar, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2025)

ACL 2025 Findings

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

Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Patrice Bechard, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Rabiul Awal, Shambhavi Mishra, Akshay Kalkunte Suresh, Srivatsava Daruru, Enamul Hoque, Spandana Gella, Torsten Scholak, Sai Rajeswar (2025)

EMNLP 2025 Industry Track

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ChartGemma: Visual Instruction-tuning for Chart Reasoning in the Wild

Ahmed Masry*, Megh Thakkar*, Aayush Bajaj, Aaryaman Kartha, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2025)

COLING 2025 Industry Track

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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, Perampalli 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 (2025)

ICLR 2025

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Colflor: Towards Bert-Size Vision-Language Document Retrieval Models

Ahmed Masry, Enamul Hoque (2025)

IEEE MLSP 2025

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Learning or Cheating? Assessing Data Contamination in Large Vision-Language Models

Ahmed Masry, Mahir Ahmed, Ridwan Mahbub (2025)

IEEE MLSP 2025

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Judging the Judges: Can Large Vision-Language Models Fairly Evaluate Chart Comprehension and Reasoning?

Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Ridwan Mahbub, Ahmed Masry, Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque, Jimmy Huang (2025)

ACL Industry Track 2025

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2024

Are Large Vision Language Models up to the Challenge of Chart Comprehension and Reasoning? An Extensive Investigation into the Capabilities and Limitations of LVLMs

Mohammed Saidul Islam, Raian Rahman, Ahmed Masry, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Enamul Hoque (2024)

EMNLP 2024

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ChartInstruct: Instruction Tuning for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning

Ahmed Masry*, Mehrad Shahmohammadi*, Md Rizwan Parvez, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2024)

ACL 2024

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2023

UniChart: A Universal Vision-language Pretrained Model for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning

Ahmed Masry*, Parsa Kavehzadeh*, Xuan Long Do, Shafiq Joty, and Enamul Hoque (2023)

EMNLP 2023

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2022

ChartQA: A Benchmark for Question Answering about Charts with Visual and Logical Reasoning

Ahmed Masry, Do Long, Jia Qing Tan, Shafiq Joty, and Enamul Hoque (2022)

ACL 2022 Findings

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Chart-to-Text: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Chart Summarization

Shankar Kantharaj*, Rixie Tiffany Leong*, Xiang Lin*, Ahmed Masry*, Megh Thakkar*, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2022)

ACL 2022

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2020

Chain FL: Decentralized Federated Machine Learning via Blockchain

C. Korkmaz, H. E. Kocas, A. Uysal, A. Masry, O. Ozkasap and B. Akgun (2020)

BCCA 2020

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Journal Publications

Chart Question Answering: State of the Art and Future Directions

Enamul Hoque, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Ahmed Masry (2022)

EuroVis 2022

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Workshop Papers

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, Perampalli 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 (2024)

RBFM @ NeurIPS 2024

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LongFin: A Multimodal Document Understanding Model for Long Financial Domain Documents

Ahmed Masry and Amir Hajian (2024)

AIFinSI @ AAAI 2024

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Integrating Image Data Extraction and Table Parsing Methods for Chart Question Answering

Ahmed Masry, Enamul Hoque Prince (2021)

ChartQA @ CVPR 2021 🏆 Best Paper Award

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Preprints

Scope: Selective Cross-modal Orchestration of Visual Perception Experts

Tianyu Zhang, Suyuchen Wang, Chao Wang, Juan Rodriguez, Ahmed Masry, Xiangru Jian, Yoshua Bengio, Perouz Taslakian (2025)

arXiv Preprint

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Improving GUI Grounding with Explicit Position-to-Coordinate Mapping

Suyuchen Wang, Tianyu Zhang, Ahmed Masry, Christopher Pal, Spandana Gella, Bang Liu, Perouz Taslakian (2025)

arXiv Preprint

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LLM-based data science agents: A survey of capabilities, challenges, and future directions

Mizanur Rahman, Amran Bhuiyan, Mohammed Saidul Islam, Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar, Ridwan Mahbub, Ahmed Masry, Shafiq Joty, Enamul Hoque (2025)

arXiv Preprint

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Apriel-1.5-15b-Thinker

Shruthan Radhakrishna, Aman Tiwari, Aanjaneya Shukla, Masoud Hashemi, Rishabh Maheshwary, Shiva Krishna Reddy Malay, Jash Mehta, Pulkit Pattnaik, Saloni Mittal, Khalil Slimi, Kelechi Ogueji, Akintunde Oladipo, Soham Parikh, Oluwanifemi Bamgbose, Toby Liang, Ahmed Masry, Khyati Mahajan, Sai Rajeswar Mudumba, Vikas Yadav, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Torsten Scholak, Sagar Davasam, Srinivas Sunkara, Nicholas Chapados (2025)

arXiv Preprint

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Do LLMs Work on Charts? Designing Few-Shot Prompts for Chart Question Answering and Summarization

Xuan Long Do, Mohammad Hassanpour, Ahmed Masry, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty (2023)

arXiv Preprint

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