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Curriculum Vitae of Nearchos Potamitis.
Basics
| Name | Nearchos Potamitis, MSc. |
| Label | PhD Student |
| nearchos.potamitis@cs.au.dk | |
| Url | https://potamitisn.github.io |
| Summary | PhD student at Aarhus University researching efficiency and reliability in LLM reasoning. |
Work
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2025.01 - 2025.07 Research Assistant
Aarhus University, Denmark
Focused on improving the reasoning ability and the cost-quality trade-off of Large Language Models (LLMs). As a first author, two full papers accepted to ICML 2025 and EMNLP 2025. Advisor: Prof. Akhil Arora.
- ICML 2025
- EMNLP 2025
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2024.09 - 2024.12 Schuman Trainee
European Parliament
Schuman trainee at the AI unit of the European Parliament. Leveraging LLMs to assess whether an application to the Transparency Register adheres to the applicable regulations.
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2024.01 - 2024.06 Student Researcher (Master Thesis)
DLAB, EPFL, Switzerland
Introduced Fleet of Agents, a novel framework utilizing LLMs as agents to navigate through dynamic tree searches. Introduced CacheSaver, a framework that facilitates LLM requests by utilizing asynchronous, batched mechanisms. Perfect grade of 6/6 (top 1%).
- Fleet of Agents
- CacheSaver
- 6/6 grade (top 1%)
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2023.06 - 2023.09 Data Science Intern
Prediggo SA, Switzerland
Developed an LLM-powered conversational bot to streamline business rule creation, enhancing user experience and accessibility.
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2022.11 - 2023.04 Research Assistant
EPFL FUSTIC, Switzerland
Conducted an extensive literature review and led the data collection and analysis of modern urban platforms, evaluating their capabilities in Urban Digital Twins.
Education
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2025.01 - 2028.01 Aarhus, Denmark
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2022.01 - 2024.01 Lausanne, Switzerland
MSc
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Data Science
- Thesis: Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
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2017.01 - 2021.01 Lausanne, Switzerland
Publications
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2025.01.01 Are Retrials All You Need? Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning Without Verbalized Feedback
EXAIT Workshop, ICML 2025
Exploring retrials as a method for enhancing LLM reasoning without verbalized feedback.
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2025.01.01 ReasonBench: Benchmarking the (In)Stability of LLM Reasoning
arXiv preprint, 2025.
Benchmarking the stability and reliability of LLM reasoning capabilities.
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2025.01.01 CacheSaver: A Modular Framework for Efficient, Affordable, and Reproducible LLM Inference
EMNLP 2025 Findings
A framework that facilitates LLM requests by utilizing asynchronous, batched mechanisms to optimize costs and response time.
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2025.01.01 Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
ICML 2025
A novel framework utilizing LLMs as agents to navigate through dynamic tree searches, employing a genetic-type particle filtering approach.
Skills
| Programming | |
| Python | |
| JavaScript | |
| Scala | |
| SQL | |
| C++ | |
| Shell scripting |
| Frameworks | |
| PyTorch | |
| TensorFlow | |
| Hugging Face Transformers | |
| Fast.ai | |
| Pandas |
| Tools | |
| Git | |
| Docker | |
| NodeJs | |
| Matlab | |
| LaTeX | |
| Power BI | |
| AWS | |
| Microsoft Azure |
Languages
| Greek | |
| Native |
| English | |
| Full professional proficiency |
| French | |
| Limited professional proficiency |
Interests
| Natural Language Processing | |
| LLM Reasoning | |
| Multi-Agent Systems | |
| Efficient Inference |
| Machine Learning | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Graph Neural Networks | |
| Statistical Analysis |
References
| Prof. Akhil Arora | |
| Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. akhil.arora@cs.au.dk |
| Prof. Robert West | |
| Associate Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. robert.west@epfl.ch |
| Prof. Caglar Gulcehre | |
| Assistant Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. caglar.gulcehre@epfl.ch |
| Dr. Lars Henning Klein | |
| Co-founder and CTO, Timely, EPFL, Switzerland. lars.klein@epfl.ch |
Projects
- 2024.01 - 2024.01
- 2023.01 - 2023.01
Deep Learning in Biomedicine - EPFL
Introduced and tested a novel benchmark for few-shot learning algorithms.
- 2023.01 - 2023.01
Natural Language Processing - EPFL
Used reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to train an LLM powered chatbot.
- 2023.01 - 2023.01
Deep Learning - EPFL
Implemented and deployed a deep learning framework to train an image restoration model.