PhD student

Role Summary

The Natural Language Understanding (NLU) group at Idiap works at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing, with an emphasis on representation learning for the meaning of language, attention-based deep learning models, and structured prediction.

As part of the ERC Advanced grant BALM, the NLU group at Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for two PhD student positions at the intersection of machine learning and natural language processing. These researchers will investigate representation learning for language, helping to control LLMs by controlling their latent memory, using the abstract and interpretable attention-based latent representations induced by our nonparametric variational information bottleneck. The group will leverage and extend these representations to develop new deep learning architectures and investigate their interpretability, controllability and applications.

The successful PhD candi...