Michal Valko
Scholar

Michal Valko

Google Scholar ID: jrazNCQAAAAJ
Chief Models Officer @ Stealth Startup, Inria & MVA - Ex: Llama at Meta; Gemini and BYOL @ Deepmind
large language modelsreasoningfine-tuningtest-time computationRLHF
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
26,165
 
H-index
46
 
i10-index
109
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
180
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Multiple papers accepted to ICML 2025, ICML 2024, AISTATS 2024, ICLR 2024, NeurIPS 2023, ICML 2023, NeurIPS 2022, ICML 2022, ICLR 2022, AISTATS 2022, NeurIPS 2021, ICCV 2021, ICML 2021, AISTATS 2021, ALT 2021, etc.
  • - Received an Outstanding Paper Award at ICML 2023
  • - Supervised several PhD students to complete their theses
Research Experience
  • - Chief Models Officer at a startup
  • - Researcher at Inria
  • - Lecturer at MVA/ENS PS
Background
  • Research interests include large language models, reasoning, fine-tuning, test-time computation, reinforcement learning with human feedback, world models. Currently, he is the Chief Models Officer at a startup, researcher at Inria, and a lecturer at MVA/ENS PS.
Miscellany
  • Invited to give talks at multiple academic conferences and involved in organizing various academic events