KU Leuven

Postdoctoral Position: Latent Variable Models for Creative Language Generation

📍 Location
Leuven, Flanders
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
July 10, 2026
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Job Description

  • You hold a PhD in natural language processing, machine learning, computational linguistics, or a related field, with peer-reviewed publications in the domain. 
  • You have a strong background in deep learning for natural language processing; experience with latent variable models and/or variational inference is a strong plus. 
  • You have excellent programming skills (Python, PyTorch) and experience with large-scale experimentation on GPU infrastructure. 
  • You have experience in guiding junior researchers, or the ambition to develop such experience.
  • You exhibit excellent proficiency in English and good oral and written communication skills.
  • Develop variational inference methods for transformer-based language models, informed by the latent structure of tensor factorization models. 
  • Investigate the interpretability of the resulting latent space, and its exploitation for creative language generation (metaphor, style). 
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