Publications

3,875 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Nikovski, D.N., "Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms", 11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-108 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nikovski2025jul,
    • author = {Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms}},
    • booktitle = {11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-108}
    • }
  •  Almudévar, A., Hernández-Lobato, J.M., Khurana, S., Marxer, R., Ortega, A., "Aligning Multimodal Representations through an Information Bottleneck", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-109 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Almudévar2025jul,
    • author = {Almudévar, Antonio and Hernández-Lobato, José, M and Khurana, Sameer and Marxer, Ricard and Ortega, Alfonso},
    • title = {{Aligning Multimodal Representations through an Information Bottleneck}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-109}
    • }
  •  Paissan, F., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Saijo, K., Le Roux, J., "FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Paissan2025jul,
    • author = {Paissan, Francesco and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Saijo, Kohei and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.11435}
    • }
  •  Qiao, H., Miyawaki, K., Nishio, J., Laughman, C.R., "Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems", International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-107 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Qiao2025jul,
    • author = {Qiao, Hongtao and Miyawaki, Kosuke and Nishio, Jun and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-107}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Masuyama2025jul,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06826}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Q., Avraamidou, S., Paulson, J.A., Thakkar, V., Wang, Z., Chiang, L., Braun, B., Rathi, T., Chakrabarty, A., Sorouifar, F., Tang, W.-T., Guertin, F., Munoz, P., Sampat, A., "Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-106 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul2,
    • author = {Zhang, Qi and Avraamidou, Styliani and Paulson, Joel A. and Thakkar, Vyom and Wang, Zhenyu and Chiang, Leo and Braun, Birgit and Rathi, Tushar and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Sorouifar, Farshud and Tang, Wei-Ting and Guertin, France and Munoz, Paola and Sampat, Apoorva},
    • title = {{Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-106}
    • }
  •  Zhang, X., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., Basar, T., "Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-105 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul,
    • author = {Zhang, Xiangyuan and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Basar, Tamer},
    • title = {{Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-105}
    • }
  •  Tu, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., Fang, H., "Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX
    • @inproceedings{Tu2025jul,
    • author = {Tu, Hao and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai and Fang, Huazhen},
    • title = {{Machine Learning-Driven Prediction of Lithium-Ion Battery Power Capability for eVTOL Aircraft}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul
    • }
  •  Cardona, G., Vasile, C.-I., Di Cairano, S., "Truck Fleet Coordination for Warehouse Trailer Management by Temporal Logic with Energy Constraints", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-103 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Cardona2025jul,
    • author = {Cardona, Gustavo and Vasile, Cristian-Ioan and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Truck Fleet Coordination for Warehouse Trailer Management by Temporal Logic with Energy Constraints}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-103}
    • }
  •  Chavez Armijos, A., Berntorp, K., Di Cairano, S., "Safe Interactive Motion Planning by Differentiable Optimal Control and Online Preference Learning", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-104 PDF
    • @inproceedings{ChavezArmijos2025jul,
    • author = {Chavez Armijos, Andres and Berntorp, Karl and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Safe Interactive Motion Planning by Differentiable Optimal Control and Online Preference Learning}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-104}
    • }
  •  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization with Adaptive Ambiguity Noise", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hu2025jul,
    • author = {Hu, Yingjie and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization with Adaptive Ambiguity Noise}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-102}
    • }
  •  Pavlasek, N., Di Cairano, S., Weiss, A., "Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping and Collocation under High-Thrust Impulsive Control", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-101 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pavlasek2025jul,
    • author = {Pavlasek, Natalia and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Geostationary Satellite Station Keeping and Collocation under High-Thrust Impulsive Control}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-101}
    • }
  •  Shimane, Y., Di Cairano, S., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits via Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-100 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shimane2025jul,
    • author = {Shimane, Yuri and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits via Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-100}
    • }
  •  Raghunathan, A., Cardonha, C., Bergman, D., Nohra, C.J., "Recursive McCormick Linearization of Multilinear Programs", INFORMS J Computing, June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-098 PDF
    • @article{Raghunathan2025jun,
    • author = {Raghunathan, Arvind and Cardonha, Carlos and Bergman, David and Nohra, Carlos J.},
    • title = {{Recursive McCormick Linearization of Multilinear Programs}},
    • journal = {INFORMS J Computing},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-098}
    • }
  •  Santra, A., Wang, P., Shaker, G., Mysore, B.S., Dolmans, G., Chen, Y., Shariati, N., Pandharipande, A., "Machine Learning-Powered Radio Frequency Sensing: A Review", IEEE Sensors Journal, June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-099 PDF
    • @article{Santra2025jun,
    • author = {Santra, Avik and Wang, Pu and Shaker, George and Mysore, Bhavani Shankar and Dolmans, Guido and Chen, Yan and Shariati, Negin and Pandharipande, Ashish},
    • title = {{Machine Learning-Powered Radio Frequency Sensing: A Review}},
    • journal = {IEEE Sensors Journal},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-099}
    • }
  •  Choi, H.J., Jain, S., "A Unified Framework for Gaussian-Based Scene Representation and Reactive Robot Control", Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy, June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-096 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Choi2025jun,
    • author = {Choi, Ho Jin and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {{A Unified Framework for Gaussian-Based Scene Representation and Reactive Robot Control}},
    • booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) 2025 Workshop on Gaussian Representations for Robot Autonomy},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-096}
    • }
  •  Dai, M., Lu, Z., Li, N., Wang, Y., "Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-092 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Dai2025jun,
    • author = {Dai, Min and Lu, Zehui and Li, Na and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-092}
    • }
  •  Ma, H., Zhang, T., Li, N., Di Cairano, S., Wang, Y., "A Hierarchical Approach for Tractor-trailer Motion Planning Using Graph Search and Reinforcement Learning", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-093 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ma2025jun,
    • author = {Ma, Haitong and Zhang, Tianpeng and Li, Na and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{A Hierarchical Approach for Tractor-trailer Motion Planning Using Graph Search and Reinforcement Learning}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-093}
    • }
  •  Wang, J.-W., Nikovski, D.N., "State Representation Learning for Visual Servo Control", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-094 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025jun,
    • author = {Wang, Jen-Wei and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{State Representation Learning for Visual Servo Control}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-094}
    • }
  •  Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", ICAD, June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-095 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025jun2,
    • author = {Wang, Ruhan and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning}},
    • booktitle = {ICAD},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-095}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "u-MoE: Test-Time Pruning as Micro-Grained Mixture-of-Experts", arXiv, June 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Koike-Akino2025jun2,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{u-MoE: Test-Time Pruning as Micro-Grained Mixture-of-Experts}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18451v1}
    • }
  •  Giacomuzzo, G., Romeres, D., Carli, R., Dalla Libera, A., "Learning Positive Definite Inertia Matrices in Black-Box Inverse Dynamics Models via Gaussian Processes: a Constraint Learning Approach", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-090 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2025jun,
    • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Romeres, Diego and Carli, Ruggero and Dalla Libera, Alberto},
    • title = {{Learning Positive Definite Inertia Matrices in Black-Box Inverse Dynamics Models via Gaussian Processes: a Constraint Learning Approach}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-090}
    • }
  •  Das, G., Wang, B., Lin, C., "Topology Optimization of Electric Motors using Mesh Projection", International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-089 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Das2025jun2,
    • author = {Das, Ghanendra and Wang, Bingnan and Lin, Chungwei},
    • title = {{Topology Optimization of Electric Motors using Mesh Projection}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-089}
    • }
  •  Sun, S., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., "Image-based Deep Learning Models for Electric Motors", International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-088 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sun2025jun,
    • author = {Sun, Siyuan and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan},
    • title = {{Image-based Deep Learning Models for Electric Motors}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on the Computation of Electromagnetic Fields (COMPUMAG)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-088}
    • }
  •  Li, X., Wang, Y., Ozbay, K., Jiang, Z.-P., "Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control", IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-087 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Li2025jun2,
    • author = {Li, Xianning and Wang, Yebin and Ozbay, Kaan and Jiang, Zhong-Ping},
    • title = {{Physics-informed Machine Learning with Heuristic Feedback Control Layer for Autonomous Vehicle Control}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-087}
    • }