The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, HITS, was established in 2010 by physicist and SAP cofounder Klaus Tschira (1940-2015) and the Klaus Tschira Foundation as a private, non-profit research institute. HITS conducts basic research in the natural, mathematical, and computer sciences. Major research directions include complex simulations across scales, making sense of data, and enabling science via computational research. Application areas range from molecular biology to astrophysics.
An essential characteristic of the Institute is interdisciplinarity, implemented in numerous cross-group and cross-disciplinary projects. The base funding of HITS is provided by the Klaus Tschira Foundation.
HITS is looking for a
Postdoctoral Researcher in Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs (M/F/D)
to join the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLI) Group to perform research at the intersection of large language models and knowledge graphs. A known disadvantage of large language models is their lack of factual correctness. Often it is not clear if generated content is factually correct, and even worse, often it is not possible to decide based on the generated output if the answer is correct: The generated content of a large language model sounds confident independently of its correctness.
The current state-of-the-art approach for making language models more factual is based on so called retrieval augmented generation, where additional input data is appended to a user’s query.
In this project, we want to develop an alternative approach that does not only add additional information to a user’s query, but instead combines inference within a language model with inference on structured data such as knowledge graphs and Bayesian networks, with the goal of making the language model more factual. To this end we develop a joint inference process that combines inference in a transformer model with inference on structured data and derive these inference algorithms in a common theoretical framework.
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For any additional information regarding the position please contact Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan Stühmer
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HITS gGmbH stands for equal opportunities and we strongly believe that our research benefits from inclusive and diverse teams.
Location: | Heidelberg - Germany |
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Salary: | Not Specified |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Fixed-Term/Contract |
Placed On: | 11th July 2024 |
Expires: | 9th September 2024 |
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