We are proud to announce that our professor, Prof. YANG Hongxia, Executive Director of PolyU Academy for Artificial Intelligence, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) of Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, has been selected for funding support under the second batch of the Research, Academic and Industry Sectors One-plus (RAISe+) Scheme. This recognition underscores Prof. Yang’s exceptional research achievements and her leadership in advancing innovation in computing technologies.

Prof. Yang’s funded project, titled “Reallm: World-leading Enterprise GenAI Infrastructure Solution”, aims to develop a comprehensive Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) infrastructure tailored for enterprise applications. The project will:

• Establish a decentralised architecture for pretraining and post-training to support distributed model training frameworks;
• Develop a domain-adaptive continual training system that optimises large language models using domain-specific unlabelled data, enabling seamless adaptation to target domain distributions;
• Design a low-bit training framework that requires only half the computational and storage resources of traditional training, while still achieving high-quality, end-to-end training from pretraining to post-training—significantly lowering the entry barrier for enterprises.

Ultimately, the project will launch an enterprise-grade GenAI platform to facilitate cross-domain collaboration, offering services across Software-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, and Infrastructure-as-a-Service.

Inaugurated in 2023, the RAISe+ Scheme aims to provide funding, on a matching basis, for at least 100 research teams from universities funded by the University Grants Committee which demonstrate strong potential to evolve into successful startups. Each approved project will receive funding support ranging from HK$10 million to HK$100 million.