Welcome to TeRA Lab !

Text Reasoning and Analysis (TeRA) Lab is a research group at the Visual Computing Center, College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Shenzhen University. TeRA is dedicated to research in natural language processing and large language models, exploring text-oriented AI technologies such as reasoning, representation, analysis, and agents.

We recruit several incoming Master&PhD students and also undergraduate students as interns each year. See page join us for details.

What We Work on?

Reasoning

Strengthening LLM reasoning by fine-tuning, reinforcement learning and inference scaling for diverse solutions and robust inference.

Representation

Building compact, effective representations and keeping them interpretable across tasks, such as retrieval and semantic similarity.

Analysis

Locating, steering, and refining AI behavior using interpretable units and causal methods for mechanism-guided tuning.

Agent

Designing memory, tool use, and interactions for long-context AI agents that act reliably across real-world tasks.

News

  • 2026.08: 🎉 We have two papers that were accepted at EMNLP 2026 (1 Main & 1 Findings papers) ! Please refer to our papers DySem and LLMs4NER.
  • 2026.04: 🎉 We have a paper on AI & Bioinformatics accepted at IJCAI 2026! Please refer to our paper PEIT.
  • 2026.04: 🎉 We have five papers that were accepted at ACL 2026 (1 Main & 4 Findings papers)! Please refer to our papers SCOPE, AnchorMem, SemPA, DeCoVec, and LifeDialBench.
  • 2025.08: 🎉 We have a paper on large multimodal model evaluation accepted at EMNLP 2025! please see our paper MUCAR.
  • 2025.08: 🎉 We have a paper about abstract reasoning of large language models accepted at CCL 2025! please refer to our paper ARC.
  • 2025.05: 🎉 We have three papers that were accepted at ACL 2025 Findings! Please refer to our papers LDIR, RVSC, and RPT.
  • 2025.02: 🎉 We have a paper apropos language model pre-training accepted by the journal IEEE TPAMI! Please refer to our paper GRN-Pretrain.
  • 2024.12: 🎉 We have a paper apropos symbol-based reasoning of large language models accepted at COLING 2025!Please refer to our paper S2L.