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Investigate Scaling Trends on a Small Open Benchmark
You will train 4 transformer language models (10M, 50M, 200M, 600M parameters) on a public pretraining corpus (e.g., a small subset of FineWeb or OpenWebText) under identical op…
- Scaling Laws
- Transformer Pretraining
- Compute Optimal Training
Large Language Models - ResearchBeginnerNew
Hyperparameter Search via CMA-ES for a Pharma QSAR Model
You receive a labeled QSAR dataset (around 25,000 compounds, regression on a binding-affinity target), a fixed feature pipeline (Morgan fingerprints + descriptors), and the team…
- Cma Es
- Metaheuristics
- Hyperparameter Optimization
Evolutionary Computation and Metaheuristic Search - ResearchIntermediateNew
Quantify Distribution Shift for a Climate-Risk Model
You receive the model artifact (a gradient boosted regressor predicting expected annual loss per property), 2010-2020 training data, and a 2021-2024 holdout. Quantify covariate …
- Distribution Shift
- Covariate Shift
- Concept Drift
Trustworthy AI, Robustness, and Safety - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Open-Source Embedding Models for a Multilingual Help Center
You receive 1,200 labeled (query, relevant-help-article) pairs across 6 languages plus the help-center corpus (~25,000 articles). Index the corpus with each of 4 open-source mul…
- Multilingual Embeddings
- Dense Retrieval
- Ir Evaluation
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Case-Study Analysis of a Public AI Incident
Pick one public AI incident (suggestions: a chatbot's harmful response that went viral, a facial-recognition false-arrest case, a financial-model bias scandal). Produce a 6-page…
- Incident Analysis
- Responsible Ai
- Case Study Research
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - ResearchBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech Synthesis Voices for an EdTech Storyteller App
You will generate 60 audio clips (20 per vendor) covering 4 story genres and 3 emotional tones. Recruit 15 native Spanish speakers via a remote panel (Prolific or local equivale…
- Tts Evaluation
- Listening Studies
- Mos Scoring
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - ResearchSeniorNew
DPO Preference-Tune a Code Assistant for Style Compliance
You receive a 7B coding base model, a client's published code-style guide (Python, around 80 pages), and a generated preference dataset (4,000 pairs of code snippets where one m…
- Dpo
- Preference Optimization
- Fine Tuning
Fine-Tuning Large Language Models - ResearchIntermediateNew
Probe a Pretrained Encoder for Linguistic Knowledge
Take BERT-base (or DeBERTa-v3-base). Run layer-wise probes across at least 3 linguistic tasks: part-of-speech tagging, dependency arc classification, and semantic role labeling.…
- Interpretability
- Probing
- Hugging Face Transformers
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
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Stress-Test Scalable Oversight on a Tool-Using Agent
Design a sandwich-oversight study: pick a task domain where non-expert oversight is plausible but not trivial (e.g., reviewing data-analysis steps, checking small bug fixes, eva…
- Scalable Oversight
- Alignment Research
- Experimental Design
AI Safety and Alignment - ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a Reinforcement-Learning Locomotion Policy for a Quadruped
You receive a configured Isaac Lab environment for the quadruped, a baseline PPO trainer, and a set of 8 trip-hazard / slip stress scenarios. Train the policy for a budget of ab…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Locomotion
- Domain Randomization
Robotics - ResearchSeniorNew
Inductive Logic Programming for a Fraud-Rule Discovery Pilot
You receive a labeled fraud dataset (around 25,000 transactions, around 4% positive class), a feature schema (28 features including device, geo, behavioral history), and a basel…
- Inductive Logic Programming
- Symbolic Ai
- Rule Learning
Fuzzy Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Symbolic Reasoning - ResearchSeniorNew
Concept-Activation Vectors for an Autonomous-Vehicle Perception Audit
You receive a trained semantic-segmentation model (8 classes including pedestrian, vehicle, road, sky), an internal validation set of 2,500 driving frames, and a small concept-i…
- Tcav
- Concept Explanations
- Interpretability
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Evaluate a Generative AI Image Tool with a Within-Subjects Study
You will write a study protocol, recruit 20 participants (a Discord callout is fine), counterbalance the two conditions, and run 45-minute sessions over Zoom. Collect three meas…
- Experimental Design
- User Study
- Within Subjects Design
Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems - ResearchIntermediateNew
Compare Kernel Methods to Trees on a Genomics Classification Task
You receive a curated benchmark of about 12,000 labeled variants with ~120 numerical + ~40 string features. Fit kernel SVMs (RBF, polynomial, string), random forest, and XGBoost…
- Kernel Methods
- Svm
- Tree Ensembles
Statistical Machine Learning - ResearchIntermediateNew
Train a Physics-Informed Neural Network for Heat Transfer in a Battery Pack
Solve the 2D unsteady heat-conduction equation on a square cell cross-section with a localized source and Dirichlet boundary conditions on the casing. Implement a baseline finit…
- Physics Informed Neural Networks
- Partial Differential Equations
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
AI for Science and Engineering - ResearchIntermediateNew
Red-Team Evaluation of a Refusal Policy
You receive the lab's written refusal policy (version 2.3) and a starter set of 60 red-team prompts (10 per category). Extend the set to 240 prompts (40 per category) using docu…
- Red Team Operations
- Refusal Policy
- Alignment Evaluation
Machine Learning from Human Preferences (RLHF and Alignment) - ResearchIntermediateNew
Planning Under Uncertainty for a Last-Mile Delivery Fleet
Build a simulator of the 50-block area with stochastic travel times conditioned on weather and time-of-day. Implement value iteration (for a small state space), MCTS (Monte Carl…
- Planning Under Uncertainty
- Markov Decision Processes
- Monte Carlo Tree Search
Automated Planning - ResearchSeniorNew
Self-Supervised Pretraining for a Pathology Foundation Vendor
You receive a public pathology dataset (about 80,000 unlabeled whole-slide-image patches plus a labeled 8,000-patch subtype-classification subset across 4 classes). Pretrain a R…
- Supervised Learning
- Medical Imaging
- Transfer Learning
Machine Learning for Imaging and Medical Image Analysis - ResearchSeniorNew
Validate a Foundation Model for Protein-Ligand Docking Acceleration
Pick 20 publicly available protein-ligand complexes from the PDBbind dataset (or similar public source). Use a published open-source structural foundation model (e.g., a Boltz-s…
- Foundation Model Evaluation
- Structural Biology
- Model Validation
AI for Science and Engineering - ResearchIntermediateNew
Fine-Tune a Vision-Language Model for Image Captioning
Take BLIP-2 or LLaVA-1.6 as the base. Fine-tune (LoRA is fine) on a 4,000-image accessibility-curated dataset where each image has a useful caption written by a low-vision-exper…
- Vision Language Models
- Fine Tuning
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
Multimodal Machine Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Circular Business Model for Sustainable Fashion
You are a business model innovation analyst at EcoWear. Your task is to research and recommend one circular business model (e.g., rental subscription, resale marketplace, or rep…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Canvas
- Three Statement Modeling
Business Model Innovation - ResearchSeniorNew
Audit a Production Model for Membership Inference Attacks
Use a black-box membership inference attack (e.g., the LiRA or shadow-model attack). You have query access to a sandboxed copy of the model + the original training data labels f…
- Membership Inference
- Privacy Attacks
- Model Evaluation
Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning - ResearchSeniorNew
Neuromarketing Audit for a Sustainable Fashion Retailer
Your team will design and simulate a neuromarketing experiment. First, propose two alternative store layouts (e.g., circular vs. grid) and two website homepage designs (e.g., he…
- Neuromarketing
- Experimental Design
- Eye Tracking Analysis
Consumer Behavior - ResearchSeniorNew
Compare RNN vs Transformer for Long-Sequence Modeling
Pick a public trajectory dataset (e.g., Argoverse 2, Waymo Open, or ETH-UCY). Implement three models with comparable parameter counts (around 5M each): an LSTM baseline, a vanil…
- Hugging Face Transformers
- Rnn
- State Space Models
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