Hello

This is the first post on TsugiLabs, the research division of TsugiCinema Inc. The site exists for two reasons: to write down what we are working on, and to put the artifacts that come out of that work somewhere a colleague can read them without first signing an NDA.

The name is the same metaphor as the parent company. Kintsugi (金継ぎ) is the practice of repairing broken pottery by filling the cracks with lacquer dusted with gold. The vessel is functional again, but the repair is visible. The fracture, instead of being concealed, is the most legible part of the artifact. The mended seam is the point.

We work one layer below the consumer hardware our parent company ships. Continual learning, model adaptation, signal-quantized optimization, and the awkward boundary between hardware-aware compression and on-device inference. Some of that work belongs in patent applications before it belongs in papers. When that order is the right order, it is the order things will ship in.

What you should expect from this site:

• Short notes when we have something useful to write down.
• Extended abstracts and preprints, with bibtex and PDFs.
• An RSS feed for each, because RSS is still the right tool for this.

What you should not expect:

• A weekly content calendar.
• Hot takes on industry news.
• Press releases.

If you want to reach the lab, the address is research@tsugilabs.com. Biz-dev questions go to partnerships@tsugicinema.com on the parent-company MX.

Thanks for being here.