Research On Prompt Optimization for Retrieval

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Amsterdam, Nederland ING Voltijd

**Master thesis project on Research on Prompt Optimization for Retrieval Augmented Generation**

**The research**

Our proposed research project is to look into automatic prompt optimization with a “gradient descent” type approach for a batch of documents, ala:
We have a RAG setup where we need to extract answers to a set of questions from a large set of documents.
This optimization idea is interesting because we see in our RAG setup that the question-answering performance can depend strongly on how exactly questions are phrased, where seemingly very similar prompts can have a big difference in performance.

The Wholesale Banking Advanced Analytics team is a large team of data scientists, data engineers, software developers and many more, that are focused on bringing data, machine learning and statistical modeling into the products that we build for our clients or internal users. The data scientists in WBAA furthermore have a strong desire to keep up with and be part of the latest developments in the fields of AI, tooling and statistics. Which they do by working closely together with master’s students on a variety of topics to solve academic yet practical problems.

Our team has extensive experience with student supervision. A previous thesis internship at ING have led to the publication of a paper on the topic.

Are you a master’s student looking for a thesis project and are you interested in this one.

Do you furthermore:

- Have solid experience with Python
- Have machine learning experience
- Have solid skills in statistics and linear algebra (matrix rank, singular values, matrix decomposition,)
- Get at least six months to do your thesis project
- Aim to go for a publication
- Bring good vibes to your fellow data scientists

Then we offer a master thesis project, a compensation of 700 euros per month, close supervision, and a tight community of data scientists to interact with and learn from.



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