Three small labs inside a small company.
TsugiLabs is the research umbrella of TsugiCinema Inc., a Delaware C-Corp. The parent company builds hardware and distribution for cinema-grade home video. The labs work one layer down from that. The split is organizational, not legal: it lets each line of work publish on its own cadence and answer to its own evaluation criteria.
TsugiAI is the algorithms lab. Continual learning, model adaptation, signal-quantized optimization, and the parts of model behavior that survive contact with constrained hardware.
TsugiSilicon is the hardware lab. Multi-stream video pipelines, hardware-aware compression, and the silicon that ships in front of the viewer.
TsugiFabric is the system-architecture lab. The substrate connecting algorithms to silicon: distributed training synchronization, compute fabric, and cross-domain co-design from decode to display to inference.
The kintsugi metaphor that names the parent company applies to all three. A model is a fragile thing. A pipeline is a fragile thing. A fabric is a fragile thing. Each breaks differently under stress. The traditional repair is invisible: train more, retime more, replicate more, hide the seam. We are interested in the opposite. Make the seam visible. Make the fix legible. Treat the place where the system was bent back into shape as the most informative part of the artifact.
What we publish
Two streams. The blog is for short notes and write-ups that are useful but not paper-shaped. The papers page is for extended abstracts, workshop submissions, and preprints. Both have RSS feeds. Neither has a comment section.
What we do not publish
Pre-disclosure mechanism details for technology under provisional patent prosecution. The build pipeline runs a fail-closed disclosure lint on every commit so we cannot accidentally publish material that is still under embargo. If a piece of work belongs in a patent application before it belongs in a paper, that is the order it ships in.
Team
Tong Liu, Cofounder & CEO. Hardware architecture, FPGA and ROM engineering, dual-layer compression, patent strategy, and the inventor of record on all seven filed US provisional patents (sole on five; joint on two).
Dylan Lindeberg, Cofounder & President, TsugiCinema Home Cinema Division (fractional). Architect-channel install pipeline, audio engineering, San Francisco demo room, and the home-cinema customer experience.
Wenling Ma, Fractional Chief of Staff & Head of Compliance. Money-transmitter regulatory analysis, studio licensing governance, and investor reporting cadence.
Shaheen Hoque, Chief Science Advisor & Lead Investor. Joint inventor on the MRRO and CMLGS filings; Chief Scientist path contemplated under non-binding Contingent Letter of Intent.
Alfred Li, Head of Revenue (contemplated under non-binding Contingent Letter of Intent). Healthcare-domain operator with revenue-cycle depth.
Beyond the named members above, senior AI researchers and ML systems engineers from frontier-lab backgrounds are engaged under non-binding Contingent Letters of Intent ahead of formal Trigger events. Identities are reserved pending Trigger and will appear here as those Triggers fire.
Additional contributors will appear here as their roles formalize.
Patents
Seven US provisional patents filed between 2026-02 and 2026-05 covering the cinema hardware stack and the TsugiAI optimization-research portfolio. Per-patent technical depth and mechanism descriptors live at tsugilabs.ai/patents.
Contact
research@tsugilabs.ai for research correspondence. partnerships@tsugicinema.com for biz-dev and licensing questions.