Westlake ENCODE Lab
About Us:
The ENCODE Lab (Efficient Neural COmputing and DEsign) is led by Dr. Huan Wang, a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the School of Engineering at Westlake University. We focus on building efficient and reliable AI systems that are scalable and self-improving, driving both theoretical innovation and practical impact.
Research Focus:
Our research centers on Efficient AI, Multimodal AI, and Generative AI.
Join Us:
We are actively recruiting Ph.D. students, Research Assistants, Visiting Students, and Postdocs. Please read the Admission Guide for openings and how to apply, and email us at encodelab@westlake.edu.cn.
news
| Jun 22, 2026 | [ECCV'26] Three papers accepted to ECCV 2026! Congrats to Kejia (TARS), Ying (LISA), Zefang (EVAR), and all collaborators! |
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| May 08, 2026 | [ICML'26] Four papers accepted to ICML 2026! Congrats to Ying (ARC-Decode & Prism-MoE), Wenjie (RLKV), Kaiwen (SparseSSM), and all collaborators! |
| Feb 22, 2026 | [CVPR'26] Six papers accepted to CVPR 2026! Congrats to Keda (OmniZip), Xueyi (StreamingTOM), Sicheng (ReasonMap), Hesong (EarlyTom), Boya (PJD), Zhizhen (QVGGT), and all collaborators! |
| Jan 26, 2026 | [TMLR'26] Our first systematic survey on multimodal long-context token compression has been accepted to TMLR! Congrats to Kele, Keda, and all collaborators! [arxiv] [code] |
| Jan 26, 2026 | [ICLR'26] Four papers accepted to ICLR 2026! Congrats to Junhan (OBS-Diff), Xin (MergeMix), Sicheng (RewardMap), Haopeng (ARPG), and all collaborators! Notably, Junhan Zhu is the first Westlake undergraduate to publish at a top ML/AI venue as a sole first author! |
selected publications
- ECCVLISA: Locality-Informed Speculative Decoding for Accelerating Autoregressive Image GenerationIn European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
- ECCVEVAR: Edge Visual Autoregressive Models via Principled PruningIn European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
- ICMLARC-Decode: Accelerated Decoding with Risk-Bounded AcceptanceIn International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
- ICMLPrism-MoE: Efficient Dense-to-MoE Conversion for Visual Autoregressive GenerationIn International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026