- Hu, H., Huang, C.-T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Suzuki, K., Brand, M., Koike-Akino, T., "ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-148 PDF- @inproceedings{Hu2026sep,
- author = {Hu, Haodi and Huang, Chung-Ta and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Suzuki, Kei and Brand, Matthew and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{ReCoVLA: VLM-Guided Reward Compilation for Failure Recovery in Vision-Language-Action Policies}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-148}
- }
- Liu, J., Wang, Y., Suzuki, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Test-Time Attention: Can Robots Better Follow Commands?", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IARL Workshop, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-142 PDF- @inproceedings{Liu2026sep,
- author = {Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Suzuki, Kei and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Test-Time Attention: Can Robots Better Follow Commands?}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IARL Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-142}
- }
- Shek, C.L., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Suzuki, K., Tokekar, P., Koike-Akino, T., "Read the Manual: Grounding Behavior Tree Synthesis for Multi-Machine Factory Operation", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-149 PDF- @inproceedings{Shek2026sep,
- author = {Shek, Chak.Lam and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Suzuki, Kei and Tokekar, Pratap and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Read the Manual: Grounding Behavior Tree Synthesis for Multi-Machine Factory Operation}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-149}
- }
- Singh, H., Suzuki, K., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Cascante-Bonilla, P., Koike-Akino, T., "DYNAMIT: Dynamic Zero-Shot Manipulation via Instruction-Grounded Visual Tracking and Interception in Industrial Conveyor Environments", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-146 PDF- @inproceedings{Singh2026sep,
- author = {Singh, Harsh and Suzuki, Kei and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Cascante-Bonilla, Paola and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{DYNAMIT: Dynamic Zero-Shot Manipulation via Instruction-Grounded Visual Tracking and Interception in Industrial Conveyor Environments}},
- booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-146}
- }
- Bhosale, S., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update", Interspeech, September 2026, pp. 2958-2962.
BibTeX TR2026-140 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep2,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {2958--2962},
- month = sep,
- issn = {2958-1796},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-140}
- }
- Bhosale, S., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Zhu, X., Le Roux, J., "Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction", Interspeech, September 2026, pp. 2963-2967.
BibTeX TR2026-139 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep,
- author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Zhu, Xiatian and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {2963--2967},
- month = sep,
- issn = {2958-1796},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-139}
- }
- Boeddeker, C., Masuyama, Y., Richter, J., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-137 PDF- @inproceedings{Boeddeker2026sep,
- author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-137}
- }
- Hori, C., Korekata, R., Kambara, M., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-136 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2026sep,
- author = {{Hori, Chiori and Korekata, Ryosuke and Kambara, Motonari and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-136}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Edo, T., Bhosale, S., Le Roux, J., "HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2026-1391, September 2026, pp. 696-701.
BibTeX TR2026-135 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026sep2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Bhosale, Swapnil and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {696--701},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2026-1391},
- issn = {2958-1796},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-135}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., Tan, Z.-H., "Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection", Interspeech, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-138 PDF- @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2026sep,
- author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Tan, Zheng-Hua},
- title = {{Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection}},
- booktitle = {Interspeech},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-138}
- }
- Mumcu, F., Bekit, L., Jones, M.J., Cherian, A., Yilmaz, Y., "Language Models in Video Anomaly Detection: A Dynamic Survey", IEEE Access, September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-143 PDF- @article{Mumcu2026sep,
- author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Bekit, Lokman and Jones, Michael J. and Cherian, Anoop and Yilmaz, Yasin},
- title = {{Language Models in Video Anomaly Detection: A Dynamic Survey}},
- journal = {IEEE Access},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-143}
- }
- Yu, B.-Y., Peng, K.-C., Hsieh, J.-W., "LEAP-VLA: Latent-Enhanced Action Prototyping via Continuous Residual Latent Spaces for Vision-Language-Action Models", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Favaro, P. and Kukelova, Z. and Maki, A. and Rohrbach, A. and Schindler, K. and Tombari, F., Eds., DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-37450-9_20, September 2026, vol. 17034, pp. 367–385.
BibTeX TR2026-127 PDF- @inproceedings{Yu2026sep,
- author = {Yu, Bo-Yun and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Hsieh, Jun-Wei},
- title = {{LEAP-VLA: Latent-Enhanced Action Prototyping via Continuous Residual Latent Spaces for Vision-Language-Action Models}},
- booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
- year = 2026,
- editor = {Favaro, P. and Kukelova, Z. and Maki, A. and Rohrbach, A. and Schindler, K. and Tombari, F.},
- volume = 17034,
- pages = {367–385},
- month = sep,
- publisher = {Springer},
- doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-37450-9_20},
- issn = {0302-9743},
- isbn = {978-3-032-37449-3},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-127}
- }
- Fujimura, T., Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Le Roux, J., "NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-124 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Fujimura2026sep,
- author = {Fujimura, Takuya and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-124}
- }
- Lin, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Kim, M., Le Roux, J., "Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-125 PDF- @inproceedings{Lin2026sep,
- author = {Lin, Jackie and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and Kim, Minje and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-125}
- }
- Mitsui, Y., Aihara, R., Saito, T., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-126 PDF- @inproceedings{Mitsui2026sep,
- author = {Mitsui, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Saito, Tatsuhiko and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
- booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
- year = 2026,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-126}
- }
- Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-094 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Wang2026jul,
- author = {{Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
- title = {{Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop on Agents in the Wild: Safety, Security, and Beyond},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-094}
- }
- Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "EinSort: Sorting is All We Need for Tensorizing LLM", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-093 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026jul,
- author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye}},
- title = {{EinSort: Sorting is All We Need for Tensorizing LLM}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-093}
- }
- Rottman, A., Tonin, F., Wu, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Cevher, V., "Connecting Low-Rank Adapters and Policy Stability in GRPO Fine-Tuning", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-092 PDF- @inproceedings{Rottman2026jul,
- author = {Rottman, Antonin and Tonin, Francesco and Wu, Yongtao and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Cevher, Volkan},
- title = {{Connecting Low-Rank Adapters and Policy Stability in GRPO Fine-Tuning}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-092}
- }
- Klement, D., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Technical Report for MERL’s Real-TSE Challenge Submission," Tech. Rep. TR2026-112, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-112 PDF- @techreport{Klement2026jul2,
- author = {Klement, Dominik and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Saijo, Kohei and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Technical Report for MERL’s Real-TSE Challenge Submission}},
- institution = {Real-TSE Challenge},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-112}
- }
- Bhaskar, A., Tokekar, P., Di Cairano, S., Schperberg, A., "MIRROR: Multisensory Implicit Rejection-sampled RObotic policy", ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference & Generative Modeling, July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-096 PDF- @inproceedings{Bhaskar2026jul,
- author = {Bhaskar, Amisha and Tokekar, Pratap and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Schperberg, Alexander},
- title = {{MIRROR: Multisensory Implicit Rejection-sampled RObotic policy}},
- booktitle = {ICML 2026 Workshop on Structured Probabilistic Inference \& Generative Modeling},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-096}
- }
- Khan, N., Wichern, G., Laughman, C.R., "Reinforced Neural Processes: Memory-Efficient Time-Series Forecasting with a World-Feedback-Trained Memory Policy", ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from World Feedback (RLxF), July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-095 PDF- @inproceedings{Khan2026jul,
- author = {Khan, Nibraas and Wichern, Gordon and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Reinforced Neural Processes: Memory-Efficient Time-Series Forecasting with a World-Feedback-Trained Memory Policy}},
- booktitle = {ICML Workshop on Reinforcement Learning from World Feedback (RLxF)},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-095}
- }
- Hsieh, Y.-K., Peng, K.-C., Li, X., Chang, M.-C., Tseng, Y.-C., Hsieh, J.-W., "Partial Ring Scan: Revisiting Scan Order in Vision State Space Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Zhang, T. and Dudik, M. and Jaggi, M. and Agarwal, A. and Li, S. and Schuurmans, D. and Zhu, J. and Berkenkamp, F. and Dong, H. and Bietti, A., Eds., July 2026, vol. 306, pp. 44412-44432.
BibTeX TR2026-091 PDF- @inproceedings{Hsieh2026jul,
- author = {Hsieh, Yi-Kuan and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Li, Xin and Chang, Ming-Ching and Tseng, Yu-Chee and Hsieh, Jun-Wei},
- title = {{Partial Ring Scan: Revisiting Scan Order in Vision State Space Models}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
- year = 2026,
- editor = {Zhang, T. and Dudik, M. and Jaggi, M. and Agarwal, A. and Li, S. and Schuurmans, D. and Zhu, J. and Berkenkamp, F. and Dong, H. and Bietti, A.},
- volume = 306,
- pages = {44412--44432},
- month = jul,
- publisher = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-091}
- }
- Moosa, I.M., Lohit, S., Wang, Y., Chatterjee, M., Yin, W., "Understanding Dynamic Compute Allocation in Recurrent Transformers", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-090 PDF Software Presentation- @inproceedings{Moosa2026jul,
- author = {{Moosa, Ibraheem Muhammad and Lohit, Suhas and Wang, Ye and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Yin, Wenpeng}},
- title = {{Understanding Dynamic Compute Allocation in Recurrent Transformers}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
- year = 2026,
- month = jul,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-090}
- }
- Safarov, S., Park, J., Jung, Y.G., Peng, K.-C., Kim, W., Bang, S., Camps, O., "Memory-Distilled Selection for Noise-Robust Anomaly Detection", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), Zhang, T. and Dudik, M. and Jaggi, M. and Agarwal, A. and Li, S. and Schuurmans, D. and Zhu, J. and Berkenkamp, F. and Dong, H. and Bietti, A., Eds., July 2026, vol. 306, pp. 106818-106844.
BibTeX TR2026-089 PDF- @inproceedings{Safarov2026jul,
- author = {{Safarov, Sirojbek and Park, Jaewoo and Jung, Yoon G. and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Kim, Wonchul and Bang, Seongdeok and Camps, Octavia}},
- title = {{Memory-Distilled Selection for Noise-Robust Anomaly Detection}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
- year = 2026,
- editor = {Zhang, T. and Dudik, M. and Jaggi, M. and Agarwal, A. and Li, S. and Schuurmans, D. and Zhu, J. and Berkenkamp, F. and Dong, H. and Bietti, A.},
- volume = 306,
- pages = {106818--106844},
- month = jul,
- publisher = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (PMLR)},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-089}
- }
- Fujimura, T., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 2," Tech. Rep. TR2026-100, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge), June 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-100 PDF- @techreport{Fujimura2026jun,
- author = {{Fujimura, Takuya and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Saijo, Kohei and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 2}},
- institution = {IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge)},
- year = 2026,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-100}
- }