Spectacled caiman Photo: Bernard Gagnon

Regional Interest Projects

Regional Interest Projects

Project Name Description
Optimization of language models for the retrieval and safe generation of information about species A Spanish-language biodiversity question-answering system based on RAG, integrating data from INBio and BHL with language models to generate accurate, contextualized responses with confidence levels.
Relationship extraction from unstructured species descriptions using TaxonNERD and LLaMA2 - 7B An NLP project that transforms ecological descriptions into structured data, identifying predator-prey relationships using TaxoNERD and LLaMA2-7B on INBio data.
Monitoring species in Costa Rica through camera traps and transformers Automatic identification of animal species in Costa Rica using camera traps, leveraging transformer-based models and MegaDetector trained on a curated dataset of CEMEDE images.
Ecosystem Simulator Using Large Language Models (LLM) An ecosystem simulator based on deep reinforcement learning and LLMs, where agents learn survival strategies and interact in 2D and potentially 3D environments.