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<title><![CDATA[Topic Model Inference on GPU Using OpenCL (JavaCL or ScalaCL) (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Quick DescriptionThis internship will consist in designing and implementing a library for fast computation of recent probabilistic models on GPU (Graphical Processing Unit). The involved algorithms are already explained in scientific articles and some implementations exist. The goal is to rethink these algorithm to make them parallelizable and implement them on recent graphical adapters.This internship would take place in a dynamic research group with an emphasis on both scientific soundness and software sharing.IntroductionMost computers today have graphical hardware that can be easily more powerful than any CPU provided the programs can be made parallel. Proper use of the graphic adapter or GPU can easily lead to dramatic speedup of 10x or 100x. Originally very dedicated to image rendering, GPU have been progressively made more and more programmable. A standard language name OpenCL have been created and allow to write parallel programs that can run on GPU from any vendors and also on normal CPUs, without modification.On the other side, “topic models” are a class of probabilistic models used in a variety of domain to automatically find “topics” or “themes” in a set of “document“ made of “words”. Originally developed for finding topics in text documents (e.g., news articles, web pages), topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have shown to have tremendous applicability to mine information from various data: twitter messages, DNA sequences, image retrieval, video indexing, human language, mobile phone logs, audio signals, …Several main issues of topic models will be addressed during the internship:Variations of the model: LDA is the basic topic model but a lot of variations have been created. In particular, the internship will focus at some point on temporal topic models developed in the hosting research group (see http://www.idiap.ch/paper/2053/realdata.html for example results).Inference algorithms: various methods and approximations can be used to do probabilistic inference for a model and some input data. These methods include “variational methods”, “expectation maximization (EM)” and “Gibbs sampling”. At least Gibbs sampling will be explored at some point.The considered data. As mentioned previously, topic models are applied to many kind of data. While text and images have been explored for a relative long time, videos are still new a challenge due to the temporal aspect.Expected range of tasksUnderstanding of topic modelsUnderstanding related algorithms and implementationsDesigning parallel algorithmsDesigning an API (Application Programming Interface) for the libraryImplementing using OpenCL using, as a wrapping language, one of C/C++/Java/ScalaPossible release as an open source projectPossible scientific publication depending on the progress (e.g., evolutions of the models)SkillsRequired skill:basic knowledge/interest in C (for OpenCL) and Javabasic understanding/interest in probabilitiesAdditional skills (good to have, or that will be developed during the internship):GPU programming (parallel programming)machine learninglibrary designsoftware engineering methods (version control, unit testing, API deisgn)open source software publicationContextLinks:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPUhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCLhttp://www.idiap.ch/paper/2053/realdata.htmlLanguage:supervision: English or Frenchwork environment: English and French]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Rémi Emonet, Jean-Marc ODOBEZ]]></author>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Computer vision and machine learning for multi-modal interaction modeling (Postdoc)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Idiap Research Institute, a laboratory associated with EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne) seeks qualified candidates for 1 postdoctoral research position in computer vision and machine learning for multi-modal interaction modeling.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Jean-Marc Odobez]]></author>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PhD position in machine learning for semantic document retrieval. (Ph.D Student)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The position is funded by the Hasler Stiftung. The duration of the appointment is for a maximum of 4 years with a competitive PhD salary. The position is available from January 2012 onwards. Starting date is negotiable.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ronan COLLOBERT]]></author>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PostDoc in Face Recognition (Postdoc)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for one postdoctoral research position in face recognition.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Sébastien MARCEL]]></author>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Speech Recognition and Synthesis (Postdoc)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Idiap Research Institute is seeking a post-doctoral (or equivalent) researcher for application oriented research in automatic speech recognition and synthesis.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Philip N. Garner]]></author>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Weighted Finite State Transducer compression for Automatic Speech Recognition (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[WFSTs represent a means of pre-compiling the grammars used by ASR decoders. Such pre-compiled grammars tend to lead to both quicker decoding, because duplication of weights and paths is minimised, and simpler decoder implementations, because the composition process is offline. Pre-compiled grammars are quite large, sometimes limited only by the size of the memory on the host CPU.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Philip Garner]]></author>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PhD position in machine learning applied to natural language processing (Ph.D Student)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[We are looking forward to applications for a PhD position in the field of machine learning applied to natural language processing (NLP). The position will be funded by NEC Laboratories America (Princeton, NJ). The duration of the appointment is 4 years maximum, provided successful progress. Starting date is immediate (negotiable if in 2011). Annual gross salary ranges from 43,000 Swiss Francs (first year) to 47,000 Swiss Francs (last year).]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Ronan COLLOBERT]]></author>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[PhD position in speech processing and machine learning (Ph.D Student)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Applications are invited for a PhD position in speech processing and machine learning funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and supported by the the European Network of Excellence in Social Signal Processing SSPNet (see www.sspnet.eu). The duration of the appointment is for a maximum of 4 years with a competitive PhD salary. The position is available from November 2011 onwards. Starting date is negotiable.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Dr. Fabio Valente]]></author>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Subspace Gaussian Mixture modelling (SGMM) for multi-lingual ASR (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The goal is to continue a research direction based on a new acoustic modeling paradigm which has also a relationship with the popular Joint Factor Analysis dominating speaker identification systems.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Petr Motlicek]]></author>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Keyword spotting (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Multimodal KWS]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Petr Motlicek]]></author>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Conversational TTS (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The idea here is to train an HTS system using conversational (AMI meeting) data. The difficulty is in the annotation of the data to a level suitable for use in TTS training. It would involve:]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[John Dines]]></author>
<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Researcher Position (Researcher)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Research Scientist is a researcher with at least 2 years of post-PhD experience and expertise in one or several broad fields, hired on a permanent position to work on several specific projects and contribute in general to the research efforts of the institute under the supervision of a Professor or a &ldquo;External MER&rdquo; and in collaboration with other researchers and staff in the relevant research theme(s).]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[François Foglia]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Senior Researcher application (Researcher)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Senior Research Scientist is an experienced researcher with worldwide recognized expertise in several broad fields hired on a permanent position to lead a team of researchers and students in a given field.]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[François Foglia]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Internship application (Internship)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Send us your spontaneous application !]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Idiap Research Institute]]></author>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Other application (Other)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Send us your spontaneous application !]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Postdoc application (Postdoc)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Postdoc is a young researcher with a recently completed PhD and expertise in a given field, hired for a limited duration (typically 12 to 36 months) to work on one or several specific projects under the supervision of a Research Scientist and in collaboration with other scientists and staff in the relevant research theme(s).]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spontaneous Ph.D Student application (Ph.D Student)]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The PhD student is a graduate student with a Master in a relevant field and is undertaking research in the framework of its funding project, leading to a PhD in at most 48 months under the supervision of a Professor or &ldquo;External MER&rdquo; (thesis director) and in collaboration / co-supervision with other researchers, postdocs and students in the relevant research theme(s).]]></description>
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