Publications

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  •  Edo, T., Wichern, G., Fujimura, T., Boeddeker, C., Masuyama, Y., Richter, J., Saijo, K., Le Roux, J., "When Speech is Noise: Speech Removal for Machine Anomaly Detection", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), October 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-162 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Edo2026oct,
    • author = {Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and Fujimura, Takuya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Richter, Julius and Saijo, Kohei and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{When Speech is Noise: Speech Removal for Machine Anomaly Detection}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-162}
    • }
  •  Fujimura, T., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Saijo, K., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "Anomalous Sound Detection Meets Noise-Aware Self-Supervised Learning", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), October 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-165 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujimura2026oct,
    • 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 = {{Anomalous Sound Detection Meets Noise-Aware Self-Supervised Learning}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-165}
    • }
  •  Paissan, F., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Le Roux, J., "Explainable Unsupervised Sound Anomaly Detection via Sparse Feature Decomposition", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), October 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-166 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Paissan2026oct,
    • author = {Paissan, Francesco and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Explainable Unsupervised Sound Anomaly Detection via Sparse Feature Decomposition}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-166}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Wichern, G., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "An S5 System based on Multi-stage Separation and Classification", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), October 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-163 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Saijo2026oct,
    • author = {Saijo, Kohei and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Wichern, Gordon and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{An S5 System based on Multi-stage Separation and Classification}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-163}
    • }
  •  Sridhar, S., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Cartwright, M., Le Roux, J., "Evaluating Inference-time Algorithms for Semantic Sound Scene Segmentation", Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE), October 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-164 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sridhar2026oct2,
    • author = {Sridhar, Sripathi and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Cartwright, Mark and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Evaluating Inference-time Algorithms for Semantic Sound Scene Segmentation}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-164}
    • }
  •  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, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2026-2514, 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,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2026-2514},
    • 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, Z., Hu, H., Deng, X., Mowlavi, S., Nakahira, Y., "OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference", Transactions on Machine Learning Research, August 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-155 PDF
    • @article{Wang2026aug,
    • author = {Wang, Zhuoyuan and Hu, Hanjiang and Deng, Xiyu and Mowlavi, Saviz and Nakahira, Yorie},
    • title = {{OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference}},
    • journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-155}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }