Postdoc: Multilingual LLM Research & Open-Source Benchmarking

University of Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Oxford invites applications for a fixed-term research post focused on developing and evaluating a multilingual humanities language model. The role centers on curating and documenting corpora, continual model pre-training and fine-tuning on Oxford's infrastructure, and creating benchmarks for humanities tasks.

You will publish weights, code and benchmarks as open-source and contribute to future funding plans, publications and community workshops.

Responsibilities

• Deliver core objectives of the BodleianLLM project: curating, cleaning and documenting a multilingual humanities training corpus drawn from Oxford's GLAM collections.
• Perform continual pre-training and fine-tuning of an open-weight foundation model on the University's computing infrastructure.
• Design and validate the first dedicated benchmark suite for evaluating language models on humanities research tasks.
• Publish model weights, code, corpus documentation and benchmarks as fully open-source resources.

Job description

University of Oxford invites applications for a fixed-term research post focused on developing and evaluating a multilingual humanities language model. The role centers on curating and documenting corpora, continual model pre-training and fine-tuning on Oxford's infrastructure, and creating benchmarks for humanities tasks.

You will publish weights, code and benchmarks as open-source and contribute to future funding plans, publications and community workshops.