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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.idiap.ch/en/scientific-research/natural-language-understanding">Natural
Language Understanding group</a>.</p>
<p>These researchers will investigate representation learning for
language, using our recent information-theoretic extension of
transformer embeddings to help manage an LLM's internal memory.
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
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.epfl.ch">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 apply on the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offres/phd-student-doctoral-researcher-positions-in-deep-learning-for-natural-language-processing-8b21ee">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 1 April 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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