Vasilis Papageorgiou

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Welcome! I am currently a third year PhD student at the Computer Sciences Department of UW-Madison, where I am fortunate enough to be working with Prof. Dimitris Papailiopoulos. My current research interests revolve around Large Language Models, and both theoretical and practical aspects of Machine Learning and Deep Learning.

Before coming to Madison, I earned my BSc and integrated MEng from the ECE department of the Technical University of Crete. During this time, I had the opportunity to work with Prof. Aggelos Bletsas, focusing on asynchronous inference algorithms for ambiently powered wireless sensor networks [Diploma Thesis].

news

Jul 23, 2023 I was invited to give a talk on LLMs at the 2023 ECE TUC Summer School on Data Analysis, hosted by my alma mater. [YouTube link]

selected publications

  1. From Artificial Needles to Real Haystacks: Improving Retrieval Capabilities in LLMs by Finetuning on Synthetic Data
    Zheyang XiongVasilis PapageorgiouKangwook Lee, and Dimitris Papailiopoulos
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.19292, 2024