Publications

3,921 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Van der Merwe, M., Jha, D.K., "In-Context Iterative Policy Improvement for Dynamic Manipulation", Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-136 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{VanderMerwe2025sep,
    • author = {Van der Merwe, Mark and Jha, Devesh K.},
    • title = {{In-Context Iterative Policy Improvement for Dynamic Manipulation}},
    • booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-136}
    • }
  •  Hu, H., Liu, C., Li, N., Wang, Y., "Training Task Reasoning LLM Agents for Multi-turn Task Planning via Single-turn Reinforcement Learning", arXiv, September 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Hu2025sep,
    • author = {Hu, Hanjiang and Liu, Changliu and Li, Na and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Training Task Reasoning LLM Agents for Multi-turn Task Planning via Single-turn Reinforcement Learning}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20616}
    • }
  •  Pegoraro, G., Giacomuzzo, G., Terreran, M., Ghidoni, S., Carli, R., Romeres, D., "Hierarchical Task Planning for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly", IFAC Joint Conference on Computers, Cognition, and Communication, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-134 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pegoraro2025sep,
    • author = {Pegoraro, Giulia and Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Terreran, Matteo and Ghidoni, Stefano and Carli, Ruggero and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Hierarchical Task Planning for Human-Robot Collaborative Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IFAC Joint Conference on Computers, Cognition, and Communication},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-134}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., "A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles", International Modelica Conference, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-135 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025sep,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao},
    • title = {{A Dynamic Analysis of Refrigerant Mass in Vapor Compression Cycles}},
    • booktitle = {International Modelica Conference},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-135}
    • }
  •  Chakrabarty, A., Forgione, M., Piga, D., Bemporad, A., Laughman, C.R., "Zero-Shot Parameter Estimation of Modelica Models using Patch Transformer Networks", International Modelica and FMI Conference, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-133 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2025sep,
    • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Forgione, Marco and Piga, Dario and Bemporad, Alberto and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Zero-Shot Parameter Estimation of Modelica Models using Patch Transformer Networks}},
    • booktitle = {International Modelica and FMI Conference},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-133}
    • }
  •  Kuwabara, A., Kato, S., Koike-Akino, T., Fujihashi, T., "SCC-Aided INR for High-Frequency Detail Preservation in LiDAR", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS), September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-129 PDF
    • @article{Kuwabara2025sep,
    • author = {Kuwabara, Akihiro and Kato, Sorachi and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Fujihashi, Takuya},
    • title = {{SCC-Aided INR for High-Frequency Detail Preservation in LiDAR}},
    • journal = {IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJCOMS)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-129}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Brand, M., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models" in Springer Book, September 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-130 PDF
    • @incollection{Liu2025sep,
    • author = {Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {Springer Book},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-130}
    • }
  •  Joshi, A., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., "A Dual Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach to Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: An Application to Partial Differential Equations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Joshi2025aug,
    • author = {Joshi, Anant and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine},
    • title = {{A Dual Ensemble Kalman Filter Approach to Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems: An Application to Partial Differential Equations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21684}
    • }
  •  Bortoff, S.A., Tsuji, K., "Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-128 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025aug,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Tsuji, Kosei},
    • title = {{Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-128}
    • }
  •  Lu, Z., Tu, H., Fang, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., "A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-127 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lu2025aug,
    • author = {Lu, Zehui and Tu, Hao and Fang, Huazhen and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai},
    • title = {{A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-127}
    • }
  •  Ji, D.-Y., Wang, B., Inoue, H., Kanemaru, M., "Simulation-to-Reality Domain Adaptation for Motor Fault Detection", IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-126 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ji2025aug,
    • author = {Ji, Dai-Yan and Wang, Bingnan and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
    • title = {{Simulation-to-Reality Domain Adaptation for Motor Fault Detection}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-126}
    • }
  •  Xiang, X., Peng, K.-C., Lohit, S., Jones, M.J., Zhang, J., "Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Xiang2025aug,
    • author = {Xiang, Xinhao and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lohit, Suhas and Jones, Michael J. and Zhang, Jiawei},
    • title = {{Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16812}
    • }
  •  Yataka, R., Wang, P., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., "End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-125 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yataka2025aug,
    • author = {Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
    • title = {{End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding}},
    • booktitle = {European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-125}
    • }
  •  Lin, C., Ding, Q., Ma, Y., "Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Lin2025aug,
    • author = {Lin, Chungwei and Ding, Qi (Andy) and Ma, Yanting},
    • title = {{Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13405}
    • }
  •  Stein, A., Wang, Y., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., Fang, H., "Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator", IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-121 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Stein2025aug,
    • author = {Stein, Adrian and Wang, Yebin and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan and Fang, Huazhen},
    • title = {{Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-121}
    • }
  •  Hussein, A., Khurana, S., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2063, August 2025, pp. 5393-5397.
    BibTeX TR2025-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hussein2025aug,
    • author = {Hussein, Amir and Khurana, Sameer and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {5393--5397},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2063},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-122}
    • }
  •  Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-1912, August 2025, pp. 933-937.
    BibTeX TR2025-120 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ick2025aug,
    • author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {933--937},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1912},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-120}
    • }
  •  Khurana, S., Klement, D., Laurent, A., Bobos, D., Novosad, J., Gazdik, P., Zhang, E., Huang, Z., Hussein, A., Marxer, R., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Hori, C., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2612, August 2025, pp. 3514-3518.
    BibTeX TR2025-123 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Khurana2025aug,
    • author = {Khurana, Sameer and Klement, Dominik and Laurent, Antoine and Bobos, Dominik and Novosad, Juraj and Gazdik, Peter and Zhang, Ellen and Huang, Zilli and Hussein, Amir and Marxer, Ricard and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Hori, Chiori and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {3514--3518},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2612},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-123}
    • }
  •  Yang, H., Wichern, G., Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Khurana, S., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement", Interspeech, DOI: doi: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2335, August 2025, pp. 2360-2364.
    BibTeX TR2025-119 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yang2025aug,
    • author = {Yang, Haici and Wichern, Gordon and Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Khurana, Sameer and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {2360--2364},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2335},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-119}
    • }
  •  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-118 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hu2025aug,
    • author = {Hu, Yingjie and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-118}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Aihara2025aug,
    • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08399}
    • }
  •  Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., "Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151521, August 2025, pp. 673-680.
    BibTeX TR2025-117 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deshpande2025aug,
    • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P.},
    • title = {{Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies}},
    • booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {673--680},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151521},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-117}
    • }
  •  Steinmetz, C., Uhle, C., Everardo, F., Mitcheltree, C., McElveen, J.K., Jot, J.-M., Wichern, G., "Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-116 PDF
    • @article{Steinmetz2025aug,
    • author = {Steinmetz, Christian and Uhle, Christian and Everardo, Flavio and Mitcheltree, Christopher and McElveen, J. Keith and Jot, Jean-Marc and Wichern, Gordon},
    • title = {{Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions}},
    • journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-116}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "Learning Pivoting Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shirai2025aug,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Learning Pivoting Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.01082}
    • }
  •  Lewis, A., White, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in Product QA Agents", ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-114 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lewis2025jul2,
    • author = {Lewis, Ashley and White, Michael and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in Product QA Agents}},
    • booktitle = {ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation \& Metrics (GEM)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-114}
    • }