
Aristides Milios
Biography
I'm a passionate machine learning researcher and PhD student at Université de Montréal & MILA, specializing in Natural Language Processing and Vision/Text Foundation Models. My research focuses on investigating the real-world reasoning and self-improvement abilities of large language models, especially in the context of language models as agents and tool-use.
Previously, I completed my M.Sc. at McGill University under the supervision of Dr. Siva Reddy and Dr. Dzmitry Bahdanau (researching using LLMs in conjunction with dense retrieval models for in-context demonstration selection), and gained industry experience as a Research Intern at ServiceNOW (researching self-evaluation and self-improvement in the context of promoting conciseness when it comes to topics the LLM is likely to hallucinate about). Having started a PhD under Dr. Chris Pal at UdeM in September 2024, my aim is to apply LLMs to real-world use cases, such as interactive and iterative dialogue-based design assistants, as well as continuing to investigate the ability of the models to self-improve though self-evaluation.