Pica Code IR-2026-106 Efficient multimodal foundation models: optimization, compression and transfer to the services of the Italian AI Factory

The position is part of Work Package 4 "Horizontal Services" of the IT4LIA project, in which the Department is a participant, and specifically of Task 4.2 "AI Development", which includes among the services offered by the AI Factory support for model optimization (pruning, quantization, distillation) for deployment on HPC, cloud and edge devices, the integration of multiple data modalities (text, images, video) into unified models, and an on-premises hub of pre-trained models; the results will be transferred to Task 5.4 "Manufacturing" of Work Package 5 "Vertical Services", which foresees foundation models for quality control and visual inspection. (omissis)