Postdoctoral Position in Reinforcement Learning and Post-Training of Diffusion Language Models University of Basel in Switzerland

The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...

Nicola Paoletti, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London, is looking for prospective PhD students to join the Department of Informatics. The planned start is October 2027. The opening is centered on two broad research directions: Reliable and Robust Inference for AI Safety and Security , and Counterfactual Causal Reasoning for Sequential Decision-Making and AI Systems . The first project focuses on AI monitoring and decision-making with rigorous probabilistic guarantees under distribution shift...

RIKEN’s Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP) is recruiting a Research Scientist or Postdoctoral Researcher in the Imperfect Information Learning Team of the Mathematical Intelligence Group in Tokyo, Japan. The position focuses on machine learning , weakly-supervised learning , robust learning , transfer learning , reinforcement learning , large language models , and the theoretical properties of learning from imperfect information. The successful candidate is expected to develop novel ...

The University of Zurich's Department of Mathematical Modeling and Machine Learning is inviting applications for an 80% Doctoral Candidate position in AI and Optimization. The doctoral project will be conducted in the AI and Optimization Lab with Prof. Anastasia Koloskova. Research will focus on theory or the intersection of theory and practice in areas including optimization for machine learning, privacy, machine unlearning, distributed optimization, and federated learning. Applicants should ho...

Incoming faculty at the University of Basel is recruiting for a new Computational Cellular Dynamics Lab in the Department of Biomedicine and the Basel Research Centre for Child Health . The lab will focus on computational biology , machine learning , single-cell genomics , spatial genomics , and generative models to study how human tissues develop, mature, regenerate, and change in disease, with a strong emphasis on child health. The research program includes questions about cell-fate decision m...