This is for a 2024 summer internship with the following start dates: May - August or June - September for quarter system schools.
As an intern, you will participate in a variety of activities to advance the field of code LLMs and contribute to IBM Research effort in the area. The activities will vary based on the needs of the project based at the time of the internship but will include some of the following:

• LLM tuning performance
• Synthetic training corpus generation
• Instruction tuning
• Unique aspects of code LLM vs language LLM
• Benchmarking open source models
• Evaluation of code LLM

Synthetic generation of training corpora for LLM. Benchmarking code LLMs. Instruction tuning. Transfer learning in code LLM.
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