Dheeraj Vattikonda
M.Sc. Student, McGill University & Mila
About
I work on reinforcement learning and reasoning with LLM agents in the Long Horizon Agents team under Massimo Caccia at ServiceNow AI Research, based out of Montreal. I am also a Master's student at McGill University and Mila under the guidance of Xue (Steve) Liu. My current research revolves around reasoning in LLM web agents and tool-calling systems. My recent work on web agent training received an oral presentation at ICML and will appear at NeurIPS 2025.
I completed my Bachelor's in Electronics and Communication Engineering at NIT Hamirpur. During my undergrad, I worked as a researcher at Mila and IIT Delhi, focusing on robot perception, differentiable SLAM systems, and LiDAR-based perception tasks for autonomous navigation.
News
- Feb 2026 New paper: π-Distill — Privileged Information Distillation for Language Models
- Feb 2026 Check out our blog on Self-Distillation and Privileged Information Distillation
- Dec 2025 Apriel-1.6-15b-Thinker is out! A 15B reasoning model achieving frontier multimodal performance
- Dec 2025 "How to Train Your LLM Web Agent" accepted at NeurIPS 2025
- Jul 2025 Oral presentation at ICML 2025 CUA Workshop
- Dec 2024 Aurora accepted as Spotlight at NeurIPS 2024
- Aug 2024 Started as Visiting Researcher at ServiceNow AI Research
- Aug 2023 Started M.Sc. at Mila / McGill University
- Nov 2022 Started research internship at IIT Delhi
- Jan 2022 Started research internship at Mila