News
All news and announcements from the lab, newest first.
2026
- Prof. Hoque's book Large Language Models for Information Visualization is forthcoming from Springer. July 4, 2026
- Our paper Lost in Translation: Do LVLM Judges Generalize Across Languages? accepted at ACL 2026! July 1, 2026
- Our ChartQAPro benchmark was featured in Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 technical report as an evaluation for chart comprehension and reasoning. June 12, 2026
- Our short paper on whether human gaze supervision can improve VLM robustness to misleading visualizations (with UBC collaborators) accepted at AVI 2026. June 1, 2026
- Tutorial on Multilingual and Multimodal LLMs in the Wild delivered at LREC 2026 in Palma de Mallorca. May 1, 2026
- Two papers accepted at EACL (RL-Text2Vis and DashboardQA). January 5, 2026
- Our tutorial on MLLM4HAII accepted at EACL 2026! January 5, 2026
2025
- Prof. Hoque served as Program Chair of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing at AACL 2025. December 1, 2025
- Best Paper at IEEE VIS for our chart reasoning work (congrats Ridwan & team!) November 3, 2025
- Four papers accepted at EMNLP 2025 (Text2Vis, Tiny LVLM Judges, Fair Narratives, COLMATE). October 20, 2025
- MLLM4Vis tutorial delivered at VIS 2025—slides and materials posted. October 5, 2025
- AlignVLM: Bridging Vision and Language Latent Spaces accepted at NeurIPS 2025 (with ServiceNow Research and Mila). September 18, 2025
- Congratulations to Mizanur Rahman on receiving the prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D). September 1, 2025
- We received an NSERC Discovery Grant titled “Human-AI Interactions for Democratizing Visual Analytics” for a five-year term. July 15, 2025
- We received a Mitacs Accelerate grant for StarDoc: Multimodal Document Understanding, in partnership with ServiceNow. June 1, 2025
2024
- Congratulations to Ahmed Masry on receiving the prestigious NSERC Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS-D). September 1, 2024