Welcome to T-lab
T-Lab, led by Prof. Xiaoying Tang at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, focuses on research in artificial intelligence, large models (reasoning, prompt tuning, multimodal), intelligent electric vehicle charging optimization, federated learning, and computing-energy co-optimization. The lab has published high-impact work at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, CVPR, ICCV, AAAI, EMNLP and other top conferences, as well as IEEE SmartGridComm, TMC, TII, TSG, TPWRS, TMLR, IOTJ and other leading journals. The lab continuously advances four core research directions: in large models (reasoning, prompt tuning, multimodal), advancing frontier research in prompt learning, visual chain-of-thought reasoning, end-to-end decoding, and repository-level code completion; in intelligent electric vehicle charging optimization, exploring key technologies such as optimal charging station placement and charging decision game analysis; in federated learning, tackling critical algorithmic challenges including heterogeneous data client clustering, diverse client sampling, federated forgetting and conflict mitigation, and fairness optimization; in computing-energy co-optimization, investigating data-center–grid co-optimization and coupling mechanisms between AI workload scheduling and grid dispatch. T-Lab is dedicated to promoting theoretical innovation and technological breakthroughs in the above research directions, achieving deep integration in core applications such as smart grids and industrial large models (document OCR, intelligent document generation, regulatory and standards translation, multi-turn retrieval QA, etc.), empowering intelligent industrial development.
Lab GitHub: github.com/T-Lab-CUHKSZ
Lab News
- 05/2026 1 paper accepted by TSG 2026 (CAS Q1 Top, JCR Q1)
- 05/2026 3 papers accepted by ICML 2026 (CCF A)
- 04/2026 2 papers accepted by ACL 2026 (CCF A) Main Conference, 1 paper accepted by ACL 2026 Findings
- 02/2026 1 paper accepted by TTE 2026 (CAS Q1 Top, JCR Q1)
- 01/2026 1 paper accepted by ICLR 2026
- 01/2026 2 papers accepted by ICASSP 2026 (CCF B)
- 01/2026 1 paper accepted by IOTJ 2026 (JCR Q1)
- 12/2025 1 paper accepted by TII 2025 (CAS Q1 Top)
- 09/2025 2 papers accepted by NeurIPS 2025 (CCF A)
- 07/2025 Prof. Xiaoying Tang was invited to attend WAIC 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and participated in the AI Women Elite Forum
- 07/2025 1 paper accepted by ICCV 2025 (CCF A)
- 04/2025 1 paper accepted by TII 2025 (CAS Q1)
- 04/2025 1 paper accepted by EMBC 2025
- 03/2025 2 papers accepted by TVT 2025 (JCR Q1) and IOTJ 2025 (JCR Q1)
- 03/2025 2 papers accepted by VTC 2025 and ICLR 2025 Workshop
- 02/2025 2 papers accepted by TNSE 2025 (JCR Q1) and CAIE 2025 (JCR Q1)
- 01/2025 1 paper accepted by IOTJ 2025 (JCR Q1)
- 01/2025 3 papers accepted by ICLR 2025
- 11/2024 Prof. Xiaoying Tang received the Shenzhen Natural Science Foundation (General Program) funding
Lab Related Reports
T-lab proposes G²RPO-A, an adaptive-guidance variant of Group Relative Policy Optimization that injects structured external guidance into small-model RL training, substantially improving math and reasoning performance where vanilla GRPO plateaus. The paper is accepted to ACL 2026 Main Conference.
T-lab develops an economic-analysis framework for the optimal timing of upgrading regular charging stations to fast chargers, jointly modeling demand growth and upgrade cost to quantify the best decision window for operators under varying grid and traffic conditions. Published in IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification (TTE).
T-lab proposes a bounded rationality Bayesian game framework, first applying prospect theory to EV highway charging decisions. Compared to traditional models, total social cost drops 44%, station daily procurement cost falls 29%, and peak queue length reduces up to 4x. Published in IEEE IoTJ (JCR Q1, IF 9.6).
Proposed by Tencent AI Lab with CUHK-Shenzhen, AutoDeco equips Transformers with lightweight heads to dynamically predict temperature and top-p per token, and introduces a differentiable soft top-p to enable end-to-end training. It achieves SOTA-level results across models/tasks with ~1.7% latency overhead, and shows early signs of natural-language controllable decoding. See coverage for details.
T-lab's research advances vehicle-to-grid synergy, enabling smart interactions between electric vehicles and the power grid. See the China News story for details.
T-lab's research achievements in battery swap station pricing strategy and charging optimization have garnered industry attention. The related paper was published in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) journal, providing new insights for theoretical research and practical applications in the battery swap station market.
Shenzhen TV interviewed Prof. Xiaoying Tang, who discussed how Shenzhen's electricity consumption growth is closely related to the development of new quality productive forces. The construction of industrial computing centers, data centers, and R&D activities all require substantial power support, reflecting Shenzhen's rapid development in digital transformation.
The university's official WeChat account featured Prof. Xiaoying Tang's contributions in fundamental algorithm innovation. As the thirteenth scholar in the AI Rising Star series, the report showcases her exploration and practice in multi-domain applications.
V2G system algorithms developed by the T-lab team have been applied in this landmark project, providing key technical support for large-scale vehicle-to-grid interaction in China. See full coverage at CCTV News.
Machine Heart reported on T-lab's latest research published at The Thirteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2025). The TRACE model, through causal event modeling, provides a new technical approach for temporal localization tasks in video understanding.
Prof. Xiaoying Tang was invited by Shenzhen Municipal Talent Work Bureau to participate in the production of "Come to Shenzhen, Be a Shenzhener" as one of the young talent representatives from Shenzhen universities.










