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Join our Strategic Planning and Architecture (SPARC) team within Microsoft’s Azure Hardware Systems & Infrastructure (AHSI) organization and be a part of the organization behind Microsoft’s expanding Cloud Infrastructure and responsible for powering Microsoft’s “Intelligent Cloud” mission. We are seeking a masters/PhD student to join us in Cambridge winter/spring 2025 to work on model compression and optimization for LLMs, covering topics such as post training quantization and quantization aware training. You will be joining a welcoming and highly interdisciplinary team and work on creative and challenging problems during your internship.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop quantization flow for LLM inference and training

• Design, implement and evaluate performance of quantized SOTA LLMs

• Write and present your findings in technical documents or presentations

Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications: _ _ _ _

• Be enrolled in Masters/PhD program in Computer Science/Machine Learning or related discipline

• Substantial experience quantization of LLMs, model compression

• Substantial knowledge in low-precision data type such as floating point, integer formats, block floats

Other Requirements: _ _

• Cloud Background Check

Preferred/Additional Qualifications:

• PyTorch, Python, Hands-on experience in SW Tool development

• Outstanding communication skills

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