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Research Intern (Vision / VLM)

Abaka AI
Palo Alto, CA Intern
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2026
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Our recent related work: EditReward (submitted to ICLR '26)

Responsibilities

  • Design workflows to curate high-quality image editing and generation datasets for controllable diffusion and instruction tuning.
  • Conduct evaluations of vision-language models, including image understanding, caption alignment, and editing precision.
  • Assist in the training and evaluation of diffusion models or reward models.
  • Explore visual reasoning datasets that bridge images and text prompts.

Qualifications

  • Strong background in computer science, data engineering, artificial intelligence, or related fields, with hands-on experience in large-scale vision data systems.
  • 1 years of experience in computer vision or multimodal machine learning (e.g., PyTorch, Diffusers, CLIP, BLIP, etc.).
  • Solid understanding of image-text alignment and latent-space editing.
  • (Preferred) Familiarity with aesthetic models, diffusion-based editing, vision-language modeling (VLM), or visual question answering (VQA) tasks.
  • (Preferred) Relevant publications in top conferences.

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