Research Scientist Intern, Jasper

• Currently enrolled in a Ph.D. or M.Sc program in Machine Learning, applied mathematics or computer science
• A strong interest in the field, with a potentially proven track record through personal projects or previous experience in image generation
• Being available for period of 4 to 6 months (6 months preferred)
• The ideal candidate will possess a strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset, coupled with excellent teamwork skills

Desirable

• Jasper Research is seeking a highly motivated intern to advance the frontiers of image-editing applications
• In this role, you will be instrumental in developing state-of-the-art image models while collaborating closely with our talented team of researchers and engineers
• The internship duration is 4 to 6 months, with a preference for a 6-month commitment
• The main goal of this internship is to explore ideas to improve the sampling speed of diffusion models by exploring diverse recent ideas such as rectified flows or consistency models that allowed to reduce the number of sampling steps requires to sample efficiently from a trained diffusion model
• This internship is a research internship the end goal of which is to write a research paper and share open-source if enough material
• We have currently identified two potential starting paths for the internship:
• Distillation-based methods that aims at extracting the knowledge of a pre-trained teacher model with a student model. In this approach the student is trained to predict the output of the teacher but in fewer steps
• Simulation-free techniques such as rectified flows that can learn straighter ODE trajectories leading to potentially less approximation errors when solving the ODE (at sampling time)