While the performance of multimodal world models has significantly improved, they still lack commonsense abstraction and reasoning capabilities. These models fail to capture the causal aspects of the physical and social world. To address the grand challenge of commonsense abstraction and reasoning with multimodal world models, methods will be explored to enhance their robustness, abstraction, and visual grounding abilities.
The focus will be on learning explicit, effective abstractions from limited human-labeled data, serving as dynamic, neurosymbolic world models. Following cognitive principles, these methods will be evaluated on tasks that require commonsense reasoning over space, time, and causality. This project is funded by a talent project focused on human-centric AI with common sense. The role will be co-supervised by researchers from a university and another academic institution.
What you do
- Show independence in achieving research goals and willingness to collaborate and supervise PhD students working on multimodal abstraction, commonsense reasoning, and world models.
- Invent, evaluate, and describe novel techniques for multimodal abstraction and explicit reasoning as dynamic, neurosymbolic world models.
- Publish and present this research at international conferences, workshops, and journals.
- Become an an active member of the research community and collaborate with other researchers, both nationally and internationally.
- Contribute to teaching activities, such as lectures, lab courses, or supervising bachelor and master students.
- Develop your portfolio and vision towards your next career position in academia.
Profile
- You have a PhD in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Neurosymbolic AI, or a closely related area.
- You can invent and evaluate novel algorithms and present these orally and in writing.
- You have a record of publishing in relevant, high-quality conferences or journals in the above fields.
- You are eager to tackle fundamental challenges in the areas of multimodality, abstraction, commonsense reasoning, and neurosymbolic world models.
- You can implement and evaluate commonsense reasoning methods with multimodal foundation models, e.g., using Python deep learning toolkits.
- You can work well in teams and communicate effectively in written and spoken English.
Practical
- Salary of minimum € 3,706.00 and maximum € 5,760.00 gross per month, on a full-time basis (Scale 10), based on UFO profile Researcher 4.
- A full-time 38-hour working week comes with a holiday leave entitlement of 232 hours per year. If you choose to work 40 hours, you have 96 extra holiday leave hours on an annual basis (pro rata for part-timers).
- 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
- Solid pension scheme.
- Optional model for designing a personalized benefits package.
- Contribution to commuting expenses.
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