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TIGER Lab

Our lab is currently based in UWaterloo, focusing on Text and Image Generative Research

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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  • OpenResearcher Public

    OpenResearcher: A Fully Open Pipeline for Long-Horizon Deep Research Trajectory Synthesis

    TIGER-AI-Lab/OpenResearcher’s past year of commit activity
    Python 334 34 1 0 Updated Feb 14, 2026
  • ImagenWorld Public

    Stress-Testing Image Generation Models with Explainable Human Evaluation on Open-ended Real-World Tasks [ICLR 2026]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/ImagenWorld’s past year of commit activity
    Python 26 0 0 0 Updated Feb 14, 2026
  • verl-tool Public

    A version of verl to support diverse tool use

    TIGER-AI-Lab/verl-tool’s past year of commit activity
    Python 872 MIT 75 5 1 Updated Feb 13, 2026
  • 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 572 Apache-2.0 50 24 0 Updated Feb 11, 2026
  • VisPhyWorld Public

    VisPhyWorld: Probing Physical Reasoning via Code-Driven Video Reconstruction

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VisPhyWorld’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Feb 9, 2026
  • EditReward Public

    EditReward: A Human-Aligned Reward Model for Instruction-Guided Image Editing [ICLR 2026]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/EditReward’s past year of commit activity
    Python 120 MIT 4 2 0 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • Context-Forcing Public

    Consistent Autoregressive Video Generation with Long Context

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Context-Forcing’s past year of commit activity
    59 1 2 0 Updated Feb 6, 2026
  • 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 38 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Feb 1, 2026
  • VisCoder2 Public

    The official code of "VisCoder2: Building Multi-Language Visualization Coding Agents" [ICLR26]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/VisCoder2’s past year of commit activity
    Python 9 0 0 0 Updated Jan 27, 2026
  • BrowserAgent Public

    BrowserAgent: Building Web Agents with Human-Inspired Web Browsing Actions [TMLR2025]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/BrowserAgent’s past year of commit activity
    Python 29 MIT 4 1 0 Updated Jan 14, 2026