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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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  • 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 661 70 4 0 Updated Apr 16, 2026
  • RationalRewards Public

    RationalRewards: a reasoning reward model for diffusion RL and test-time prompt tuning

    TIGER-AI-Lab/RationalRewards’s past year of commit activity
    Python 77 4 1 0 Updated Apr 16, 2026
  • ClawBench Public Forked from reacher-z/ClawBench

    ClawBench: Can AI Agents Complete Everyday Online Tasks?

    TIGER-AI-Lab/ClawBench’s past year of commit activity
    Python 0 Apache-2.0 7 0 0 Updated Apr 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 627 Apache-2.0 58 27 0 Updated Apr 12, 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 140 MIT 6 2 0 Updated Apr 11, 2026
  • Critique-Coder Public

    Training Coder Models with Critique Reinforcement Learning [ICLR26]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Critique-Coder’s past year of commit activity
    Python 14 MIT 0 0 0 Updated Apr 11, 2026
  • Hierarchical-Reasoner Public Forked from HaozheH3/Hierarchical-Reasoner

    Emergent Hierarchical Reasoning in LLMs/VLMs through Reinforcement Learning [ICLR26]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/Hierarchical-Reasoner’s past year of commit activity
    Python 65 MIT 3 0 0 Updated Apr 11, 2026
  • SWE-QA-Pro Public

    SWE-QA-Pro: A Representative Benchmark and Scalable Training Recipe for Repository-Level Code Understanding [ACL 2026]

    TIGER-AI-Lab/SWE-QA-Pro’s past year of commit activity
    3 0 0 0 Updated Apr 10, 2026
  • SWE-Next Public

    SWE-Next: Scalable Real-World Software Engineering Tasks for Agents

    TIGER-AI-Lab/SWE-Next’s past year of commit activity
    Python 3 Apache-2.0 1 0 0 Updated Apr 7, 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 32 MIT 1 0 0 Updated Apr 2, 2026
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