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Ofcom

Adaptation of Large Language Models (PhD sponsorship)

EducationCPV 80400000
Value£46k
Awarded8 May 2023
Published6 Sept 2023
RegionNationwide
Outcome — awarded

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£46ktotal contract value
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this tender£0£2.4m

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The brief

Contribution to the funding of a 4 year PhD project at the UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Speech and Language Technologies (SLT) and their Applications.

The PhD is topic is "Adapting large language models to respond to domain changes in content moderation systems.

The aim of this project is to develop new/improved techniques for domain transfer for large language models so that they can be rapidly and efficiently adapted/fine-tuned so that performance is maintained after one or more of these domain changes.

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Stage
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