Nikita Pavlichenko
Staff Research Engineer / Team Lead @ JetBrains AI
I build and train large language models for code. Currently leading the development of Mellum, an open-source code LLM family. Previously at Yandex, working on crowdsourcing and AI research.
JetBrains AI
Staff Research Engineer / Team Lead
Leading development of Mellum, an open-source code LLM family. Training billion-parameter models on 512×H200 GPUs.
Yandex
AI Research Scientist
Deep learning research for Toloka AI. Led alignment (SFT/RLHF) for LLM training. 6 publications at NeurIPS, SIGIR, HCOMP.
MIPT & Inria NANO-D
Research Intern
Developed S-GCN for protein quality prediction. Achieved state-of-the-art on CASP MQA challenge.
Yandex
ML/SWE Intern
Built ML models for video ranking. Improved search anti-spam systems performance by 5%.
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
MSc & BSc in Computer Science
Graduated 2023. Focus on machine learning and algorithms.
Mellum: Open-Source Code LLMs
HuggingFace, 2024
Best Prompts for Text-to-Image Models
SIGIR 2023
CrowdSpeech and Vox DIY
NeurIPS Datasets Track 2021
S-GCN for Protein Model Quality Assessment
ML: Science and Technology 2021
+ more on Google Scholar
I occasionally write about ML, engineering, and random thoughts.
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