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<p>As part of the ERC Advanced grant BALM, Idiap Research Institute
seeks qualified candidates for two PhD student positions at the
intersection of machine learning and natural language processing,
to work with Dr. James Henderson in the <a
href="https://www.idiap.ch/en/scientific-research/natural-language-understanding"
moz-do-not-send="true">Natural Language Understanding group</a>.</p>
<p>These researchers will investigate representation learning for
language, augmenting LLMs using our recent Bayesian extension of
transformers and knowledge graph embeddings. Our nonparametric
variational information bottleneck induces more abstract and
interpretable attention-based representations, which we will
leverage and extend to develop new deep learning architectures and
investigate their interpretability, controllability and
applications.</p>
<p>Idiap offers competitive salaries, a beautiful location, a stable
and safe democratic society, and a world-class AI research
community. PhD students are registered at <a
href="http://www.epfl.ch" moz-do-not-send="true">EPFL</a>.</p>
<p>The ideal PhD candidates should hold a Masters degree in computer
science, artificial intelligence, or related fields. She or he
should have a background in machine learning or natural language
processing. The applicants should also have strong mathematical
and programming skills.</p>
<p>Please <a
href="https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offers/two-phd-positions-in-deep-learning-for-natural-language-processing-b8b2f3"
moz-do-not-send="true">apply on the Idiap careers site</a>. All
questions related to these positions should be sent to Dr. James
Henderson (<a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:james.henderson@idiap.ch" moz-do-not-send="true">james.henderson@idiap.ch</a>).
Applications received by 28 July will be given full consideration.</p>
<p>Sincerely,<br>
- James Henderson<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:james.henderson@idiap.ch" moz-do-not-send="true">james.henderson@idiap.ch</a><br>
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