Doctoral Student

Updated: March 26, 2024 06:21 PM GMT

Full-time and Contractor Job in Saint-Etienne, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes

École des Mines de Saint-Étienne

Saint-Étienne

Sustainability and Explainability through Learning on Large Knowledge Graphs

36-months contract

Context:

The Fayol institute of Mines Saint-Étienne and the Laboratory of Informatics, Modeling and System Optimization (LIMOS, UMR 6158) is opening a PhD position in knowledge representation and machine learning, to work at the intersection of digital technologies and sustainable development.

The PhD proposal aims to find alternatives to Large Language Models (LLMs), characterized by a high number of trainable parameters and/or a high number of tokens in their training corpus. Using LLMs thus comes with high energy costs, in both training and inference phases, and a lack of transparency on the generated content. The objective of the PhD is to show that Knowledge Graphs such as Dbpedia, BabelNet or ConceptNet can be a solution to both problems. They have already been used in question answering tasks, despite their notable incompleteness on naive physics (basic spatial-temporal... More Detail