Internship: R&d Llm Mechanistic Interpretability for Privacy

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**What you'll do**
Some recent research activities focus on decomposing LLM activations into sparse linear combinations of features from a large, shared feature dictionary. Using (unsupervised) sparse autoencoder (SAE) framework allows to find such dictionaries, focusing in particular on monosemantic features (features that activate only for one lement/concept in such dictionary).
- Application and replication of recent studies on mechanistic interpretability on real and synthetic datasets.
- Design of approaches to enhance privacy guarantees of individuals, by detecting sensitive personal data in various contexts (social media contents, business communications etc.).
- Design of context-dependent approaches to anonymize sensitive personal data, without compromising as much as possible on data integrity and utility.
- Create clear documentation for evaluated approaches, with the aim of producing a scientific contribution to an international venue.

**What you bring**
- University Level: Last year of MSc in Computer Science or beyond
- Strong Python development skills
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) Knowledge
- Machine Learning Knowledge
- Fluency in English (working language)
- Abilities in organizing meeting and contacting people
- Good oral and written communication skills
- Capacity to write documents in English, ability to synthesize

**Duration**: 6 months
**Start date**: spring 2025 onwards
In accordance with the French legislation, for any duration over 2 months, this internship is paid in line with the SAP gratification grid.

**Meet your team**
Customers rely on SAP delivering trustworthy secure products. The “Secure Development Center of Excellence” is responsible for the SAP Secure Software Development and Operations Lifecycle and the respective Product Standard Security and Data Protection.
The team is driving an automation assisted approach in significantly reducing security risks emerging during software development

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Requisition ID: 415569 | Work Area: Software-Research | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Student | Employment Type: Limited Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.