Westlake ENCODE Lab

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ENCODE Lab Family

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.

Funding & Sponsors

news

Jun 22, 2026 [ECCV'26] Three papers accepted to ECCV 2026! Congrats to Kejia (TARS), Ying (LISA), Zefang (EVAR), and all collaborators!
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

  1. ECCV
    LISA: Locality-Informed Speculative Decoding for Accelerating Autoregressive Image Generation
    Ying Li, Siyong Jian, Zhaode Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Chengfei Lv, and Huan Wang
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  2. ECCV
    EVAR: Edge Visual Autoregressive Models via Principled Pruning
    Zefang Wang, Ying Li, Yanyu Li, Mingluo Su, Simin Xu, Guanzhong Tian, and Huan Wang
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  3. ECCV
    TARS: MinMax Token-Adaptive Preference Strategy for Hallucination Reduction in MLLMs
    Kejia Zhang, Keda Tao, Zhiming Luo, Chang Liu, Jiasheng Tang, and Huan Wang
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2026
  4. ICML
    ARC-Decode: Accelerated Decoding with Risk-Bounded Acceptance
    Ying Li, Zhaode Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Chengfei Lv, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  5. ICML
    Prism-MoE: Efficient Dense-to-MoE Conversion for Visual Autoregressive Generation
    Ying Li, Zefang Wang, Zhaode Wang, Zhiwen Chen, Chengfei Lv, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  6. ICML
    Which Heads Matter for Reasoning? RL-Guided KV Cache Compression
    Wenjie Du, Li Jiang, Keda Tao, Xue Liu, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  7. ICML
    SparseSSM: Efficient Selective Structured State Space Models Can Be Pruned in One-Shot
    Kaiwen Tuo and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2026
  8. CVPR
    Parallel Jacobi Decoding for Fast Autoregressive Image Generation
    Boya Liao, Ying Li, Siyong Jian, and Huan Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  9. CVPR
    QVGGT: Post-Training Quantized Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer
    Zhizhen Pan, Hesong Wang, and Huan Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  10. CVPR
    EarlyTom: Early Token Compression Completes Fast Video Understanding
    Hesong Wang, Xin Jin, Lu Lu, Chenhaowen Li, Jian Chen, Qiang Liu, and Huan Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  11. CVPR
    OmniZip: Audio-Guided Dynamic Token Compression for Fast Omnimodal Large Language Models
    Keda Tao, Kele Shao, Bohan Yu, Weiqiang Wang, Jian Liu, and Huan Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  12. CVPR
    StreamingTOM: Streaming Token Compression for Efficient Video Understanding
    Xueyi Chen, Keda Tao, Kele Shao, and Huan Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  13. CVPR
    Can MLLMs Guide Me Home? A Benchmark Study on Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning from Transit Maps
    Sicheng Feng, Song Wang, Shuyi Ouyang, Lingdong Kong, Zikai Song, Jianke Zhu, Huan Wang, and Xinchao Wang
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
  14. ICLR
    MergeMix: A Unified Augmentation Paradigm for Visual and Multi-Modal Understanding
    Xin Jin, Siyuan Li, Siyong Jian, Kai Yu, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  15. ICLR
    OBS-Diff: Accurate Pruning For Diffusion Models in One-Shot
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  16. ICLR
    RewardMap: Tackling Sparse Rewards in Fine-grained Visual Reasoning via Multi-Stage Reinforcement Learning
    Sicheng Feng, Kaiwen Tuo, Song Wang, Lingdong Kong, Jianke Zhu, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  17. ICLR
    Autoregressive Image Generation with Randomized Parallel Decoding
    Haopeng Li, Jinyue Yang, Guoqi Li, and Huan Wang
    In International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
  18. NeurIPS
    FreqExit: Enabling Early-Exit Inference for Visual Autoregressive Models via Frequency-Aware Guidance
    Ying Li, Chengfei Lv, and Huan Wang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
  19. NeurIPS
    HoliTom: Holistic Token Merging for Fast Video Large Language Models
    Kele Shao, Keda Tao, Can Qin, Haoxuan You, Yang Sui, and Huan Wang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
  20. NeurIPS
    Poison as Cure: Visual Noise for Mitigating Object Hallucinations in LVMs
    Kejia Zhang, Keda Tao, Jiasheng Tang, and Huan Wang
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025