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TIGER Lab

Our lab is currently based in UWaterloo, focusing on Text and Image Generative Research
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Text and Image GEnerative Research (TIGER) Lab

In Chinese, our lab is named "虎头帮".

This is the official website for TIGER AI Lab (https://wenhuchen.github.io/lab).

About Us

Welcome to the Text and Image GEnerative Research (TIGER) Lab at the University of Waterloo. Our lab is dedicated to enabling more controllable and faithful generation of both text and images.

Our Goal

Our primary goal is to advance GenAI (Generative Artificial Intelligence) and make it more applicable to society. We believe in the transformative potential of AI and strive to develop innovative solutions that can revolutionize the way we create digitalized content. Our research focuses on a variety of topics within the realm of GenAI, including but not limited to:

  • Text generation
  • Image and Video Generation
  • Multi-modal Retrieval and Grounding
  • Improving Reasoning and Planning in GenAI
  • Controllability in GenAI
  • Evaluation in GenAI

Our Team

We are a dynamic team of dedicated researchers and faculty members. Our team is constantly growing and we welcome individuals who share our passion for advancing GenAI.

Publications

Our work has been published in several esteemed journals and conferences. You can find a list of our publications here).

Huggingface

Our dataset, checkpoints and demo are all being released under TIGER-Lab.

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Repositories

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  • VLM2Vec Public

    This repo contains the code for "VLM2Vec: Training Vision-Language Models for Massive Multimodal Embedding Tasks" [ICLR 2025]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VLM2Vec’s past year of commit activity
    Python 400 Apache-2.0 31 13 1 Updated Sep 11, 2025
  • Hierarchical-Reasoner Public Forked from HaozheH3/Hierarchical-Reasoner

    Emergent Hierarchical Reasoning in LLMs/VLMs through Reinforcement Learning

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Hierarchical-Reasoner’s past year of commit activity
    9 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Sep 10, 2025
  • Pixel-Reasoner Public

    Pixel-Level Reasoning Model trained with RL

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Pixel-Reasoner’s past year of commit activity
    Python 201 MIT 6 1 0 Updated Sep 10, 2025
  • verl-tool Public

    A version of verl to support diverse tool use

    TIGER-AI-Lab/verl-tool’s past year of commit activity
    Python 503 MIT 37 2 1 Updated Sep 9, 2025
  • One-Shot-CFT Public

    The official repo for “Unleashing the Reasoning Potential of Pre-trained LLMs by Critique Fine-Tuning on One Problem” [EMNLP25]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/One-Shot-CFT’s past year of commit activity
    Python 30 Apache-2.0 4 0 0 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • VisCoder Public

    The official code of "VisCoder: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Executable Python Visualization Code Generation" [EMNLP25]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VisCoder’s past year of commit activity
    Python 11 Apache-2.0 0 0 0 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • VisualWebInstruct Public

    The official repo for "VisualWebInstruct: Scaling up Multimodal Instruction Data through Web Search" [EMNLP25]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VisualWebInstruct’s past year of commit activity
    Python 28 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Sep 1, 2025
  • ABC Public

    ABC: Achieving Better Control of Multimodal Embeddings using VLMs [TMLR2025]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/ABC’s past year of commit activity
    Python 15 MIT 2 0 0 Updated Aug 21, 2025
  • Vamba Public

    Code for the paper "Vamba: Understanding Hour-Long Videos with Hybrid Mamba-Transformers" [ICCV 2025]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Vamba’s past year of commit activity
    Python 84 MIT 9 2 0 Updated Jul 28, 2025
  • VideoEval-Pro Public

    More reliable Video Understanding Evaluation

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VideoEval-Pro’s past year of commit activity
    Python 11 0 0 0 Updated Jul 28, 2025
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