- Subedi, N., Yang, H.-J., Jha, D.K., Sarkar, S., Raghunathan, A., "Find the Fruit: Zero-Shot Sim2Real RL for Occlusion-Aware Plant Manipulation", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-097 PDF- @inproceedings{Subedi2026may,
- author = {Subedi, Nitesh and Yang, Hsin-Jung and Jha, Devesh K. and Sarkar, Soumik and Raghunathan, Arvind},
- title = {{Find the Fruit: Zero-Shot Sim2Real RL for Occlusion-Aware Plant Manipulation}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-097}
- }
- Ulvog, A.K., Rapp, J., Goyal, V.K., "FMCW Lidar Beyond Nyquist by Instantaneous Frequency Fitting", arXiv, May 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Ulvog2026may,
- author = {Ulvog, Alfred K. and Rapp, Joshua and Goyal, Vivek K},
- title = {{FMCW Lidar Beyond Nyquist by Instantaneous Frequency Fitting}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14039}
- }
- Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment", arXiv, May 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Wang2026may,
- author = {Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Temper and Tilt Lead to SLOP: Reward Hacking Mitigation with Inference-Time Alignment}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13537}
- }
- Mumcu, F., Jones, M.J., Cherian, A., Yilmaz, Y., "Is Video Anomaly Detection Misframed? Evidence from LLM-Based and Multi-Scene Models", arXiv, May 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Mumcu2026may,
- author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Jones, Michael J. and Cherian, Anoop and Yilmaz, Yasin},
- title = {{Is Video Anomaly Detection Misframed? Evidence from LLM-Based and Multi-Scene Models}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12725}
- }
- Richter, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Predictive-Generative Drift Decomposition for Speech Enhancement and Separation", arXiv, May 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Richter2026may,
- author = {{Richter, Julius and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
- title = {{Predictive-Generative Drift Decomposition for Speech Enhancement and Separation}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06189}
- }
- Cherian, A., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "LLMPhy: Parameter-Identifiable Physical Reasoning Combining Large Language Models and Physics Engines", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-052 PDF Data Software- @inproceedings{Cherian2026may,
- author = {Cherian, Anoop and Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{LLMPhy: Parameter-Identifiable Physical Reasoning Combining Large Language Models and Physics Engines}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-052}
- }
- Tandi, K., Ali, W.H., Rapp, J., Mansour, H., "Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-038 PDF- @inproceedings{Tandi2026may,
- author = {Tandi, Kevin and Ali, Wael H. and Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan},
- title = {{Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-038}
- }
- Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Paissan, F., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-032 PDF- @inproceedings{Aihara2026may,
- author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Paissan, Francesco and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-032}
- }
- Han, J., Wang, R., Masuyama, Y., Delcroix, M., Rohdin, J., Du, J., Burget, L., "Spatially Aware Self-Supervised Models for Multi-Channel Neural Speaker Diarization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-047 PDF- @inproceedings{Han2026may,
- author = {Han, Jiangyu and Wang, Ruoyu and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Delcroix, Marc and Rohdin, Johan and Du, Jun and Burget, Lukáš},
- title = {{Spatially Aware Self-Supervised Models for Multi-Channel Neural Speaker Diarization}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-047}
- }
- Kato, S., Wang, P., Fujihashi, T., Markham, A., "Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463668, May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-040 PDF- @inproceedings{Kato2026may,
- author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Fujihashi, Takuya and Markham, Andrew},
- title = {{Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11463668},
- issn = {2379-190X},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-6701-9},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-040}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-033 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-033}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Saijo, K., Paissan, F., Han, J., Delcroix, M., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-034 PDF- @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Saijo, Kohei and Paissan, Francesco and Han, Jiangyu and Delcroix, Marc and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-034}
- }
- Takahashi, R., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-039 PDF- @inproceedings{Takahashi2026may,
- author = {Takahashi, Ryuhei and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
- title = {{DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-039}
- }
- Zhang, H., Ma, Y., Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Boufounos, P.T., "ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464733, May 2026, pp. 946-950.
BibTeX TR2026-041 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2026may,
- author = {Zhang, Haoyu and Ma, Yanting and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Boufounos, Petros T.},
- title = {{ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2026,
- pages = {946--950},
- month = may,
- publisher = {IEEE},
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11464733},
- issn = {1520-6149},
- isbn = {979-8-3315-6702-6},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-041}
- }
- Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-035 PDF- @inproceedings{Aihara2026may2,
- 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}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
- year = 2026,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-035}
- }
- Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Ma, Y., Mansour, H., "Unambiguous Range Extension for1 Doppler Single-Photon Lidar", Optics Express, DOI: 10.1364/OE.592528, Vol. 34, No. 9, pp. 15933-15952, May 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-050 PDF- @article{Kitichotkul2026apr,
- author = {Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
- title = {{Unambiguous range extension for Doppler single-photon lidar}},
- journal = {Optics Express},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 34,
- number = 9,
- pages = {15933--15952},
- month = apr,
- doi = {10.1364/OE.592528},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-050}
- }
- Rapp, J., Kitichotkul, R., Ma, Y., Mansour, H., "Velocity estimation with single-photon lidar", SPIE Conference on Advanced Photon Counting Techniques, Mark A. Itzler, Joshua C. Bienfang, K. Alex McIntosh, Eds., DOI: 10.1117/12.3097621, April 2026, vol. 14019, pp. 1401903.
BibTeX TR2026-051 PDF- @inproceedings{Rapp2026apr,
- author = {Rapp, Joshua and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Ma, Yanting and Mansour, Hassan},
- title = {{Velocity estimation with single-photon lidar}},
- booktitle = {Advanced Photon Counting Techniques XX},
- year = 2026,
- editor = {Mark A. Itzler, Joshua C. Bienfang, K. Alex McIntosh},
- volume = 14019,
- pages = 1401903,
- month = apr,
- publisher = {SPIE},
- doi = {10.1117/12.3097621},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-051}
- }
- Bimbraw, K., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "GPT Sonography: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via a Large Vision-Language Model", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3687477, Vol. 14, pp. 70724-70736, April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-054 PDF- @article{Bimbraw2026may,
- author = {Bimbraw, Keshav and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{GPT Sonography: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via a Large Vision-Language Model}},
- journal = {IEEE Access},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 14,
- pages = {70724--70736},
- month = may,
- doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3687477},
- issn = {2169-3536},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-054}
- }
- Suzuki, K., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Hori, C., Brand, M., Romeres, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Embedding Morphology into Transformers for Cross-Robot Policy Learning", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-048 PDF- @inproceedings{Suzuki2026apr,
- author = {Suzuki, Kei and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Hori, Chiori and Brand, Matthew and Romeres, Diego and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Embedding Morphology into Transformers for Cross-Robot Policy Learning}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Efficient Spatial Reasoning},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-048}
- }
- Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Agents in the Wild, April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-049 PDF Software Presentation- @inproceedings{Wang2026apr4,
- author = {{Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
- title = {{Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Agents in the Wild},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-049}
- }
- Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-045 PDF- @inproceedings{Zhang2026apr2,
- author = {Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding},
- title = {{SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-045}
- }
- Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference on the Fly", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop, April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-044 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026apr,
- author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye}},
- title = {{TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference on the Fly}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Test-Time Updates (TTU)},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-044}
- }
- Wang, Z., Hu, H., Deng, X., Mowlavi, S., Nakahira, Y., "OpInf-LLM: Parametric PDE Solving with LLMs via Operator Inference", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI&PDE), April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-043 PDF- @inproceedings{Wang2026apr2,
- 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}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI\&PDE)},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-043}
- }
- Wang, Z., Romagnoli, R., Mowlavi, S., Nakahira, Y., "Physics-Informed Deep B-Spline Networks", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI&PDE), April 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-046 PDF- @inproceedings{Wang2026apr3,
- author = {Wang, Zhuoyuan and Romagnoli, Raffaele and Mowlavi, Saviz and Nakahira, Yorie},
- title = {{Physics-Informed Deep B-Spline Networks}},
- booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on AI and Partial Differential Equations (AI\&PDE)},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-046}
- }
- Zhai, H., Qiao, H., Mansour, H., Laughman, C.R., "Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Differential Equations and Data-Driven Algorithms for HVAC Systems", arXiv, April 2026.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Zhai2026apr,
- author = {Zhai, Hanfeng and Qiao, Hongtao and Mansour, Hassan and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Scalable Physics-Informed Neural Differential Equations and Data-Driven Algorithms for HVAC Systems}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2026,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18438}
- }