Emerge Lab

Research

We partner with companies and research teams on high-difficulty problems in agentic AI — world models, embodied reasoning, and autonomous systems — and deliver publishable, peer-reviewed research.

CVPR 2026

From Partially to Fully Unmatched Modalities as Negative Samples in Contrastive Learning

We introduce a curriculum for multimodal contrastive learning that treats partially-to-fully unmatched modality pairs as progressively harder negative samples, improving cross-modal representation quality.

Easy2Hard: Unmatched Modalities as Negative Samples
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Toward an Open Ecosystem for Federated Learning Mobile Apps

FLSys is a mobile-cloud federated learning system that supports different FL models and aggregation methods, enabling an open ecosystem of privacy-preserving FL apps on smartphones.

FLSys: An Open Ecosystem for Federated Learning Mobile Apps
AAAI 2023

Low-Overhead Model Pruning for Federated Learning

Complement Sparsification prunes models through complementary, collaborative sparsification at the server and the clients, cutting communication and computation overhead in federated learning.

Complement Sparsification: Low-Overhead Model Pruning
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