Connectionists: Two PhD positions in representation learning for LLMs at Idiap (Switzerland)

[James Henderson]

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 Natural Language Understanding group 
<https://www.idiap.ch/en/scientific-research/natural-language-understanding>.

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.

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 EPFL <http://www.epfl.ch>.

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.

Please apply on the Idiap careers site 
<https://careers.werecruit.io/en/idiap/offers/two-phd-positions-in-deep-learning-for-natural-language-processing-b8b2f3>.  
All questions related to these positions should be sent to Dr. James 
Henderson (james.henderson at idiap.ch). Applications received by 28 July 
will be given full consideration.

Sincerely,
   - James Henderson
james.henderson at idiap.ch
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