Unlock your research potential with the Rakuten Asia & EDB-Industrial Postgraduate Programme (IPP)! Pursue an MRes or PhD fully sponsored , tackling real-world industry challenges.

Learn more about the projects and submit your interest via the links below:

1. EDB-IPP Project: LLM Model Compression and Acceleration:
2. EDB-IPP Project: Advancing Domain-Specific Multimodal Large Language Models and AI Governance for Vertical Domain Applications:
3. EDB-IPP Project: Personalization and Long-Context Modeling in Large Language Models:
4. EDB-IPP Project: Advancing GPU Optimization for Large Language Models:

Trainee intake: Jan 2027

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