Publications

4,107 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Deng, Y., Nikovski, D.N., "Learning State Representations of Articulated Robot Arms from Visual Observations", International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT), July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-107 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deng2026jul,
    • author = {{Deng, Yunfu and Nikovski, Daniel N.}},
    • title = {{Learning State Representations of Articulated Robot Arms from Visual Observations}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-107}
    • }
  •  Laughman, C.R., Qiao, H., Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., "On State Selection for Vapor Compression Cycle Models with Zeotropic Refrigerant Mixtures", Purdue Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Conference, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-109 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Laughman2026jul,
    • author = {{Laughman, Christopher R. and Qiao, Hongtao and Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M.}},
    • title = {{On State Selection for Vapor Compression Cycle Models with Zeotropic Refrigerant Mixtures}},
    • booktitle = {Purdue Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Conference},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-109}
    • }
  •  Schperberg, A., Tanaka, Y., Di Cairano, S., Hong, D., "MOBIUS: A Multi-Modal Bipedal Robot that can Walk, Crawl, Climb, and Roll", Robotics Science and Systems, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-110 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Schperberg2026jul,
    • author = {Schperberg, Alexander and Tanaka, Yusuke and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Hong, Dennis},
    • title = {{MOBIUS: A Multi-Modal Bipedal Robot that can Walk, Crawl, Climb, and Roll}},
    • booktitle = {Robotics Science and Systems},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-110}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Ma, C., Yang, Y., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Wu, A., Hori, C., Romeres, D., "FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model", arXiv, July 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Ma2026jul,
    • author = {Ma, Chenyang and Yang, Yue and Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and Wu, Andrew and Hori, Chiori and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{FurnitureVLA: Learning Long-Horizon Bimanual Furniture Assembly with Vision-Language-Action Model}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01212}
    • }
  •  Folorunsho, S., Hayner, C., Di Cairano, S., Vinod, A.P., "Coordinated aerial inspection of infrastructure with heterogeneous drones", World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-101 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Folorunsho2026jul,
    • author = {Folorunsho, Samuel and Hayner, Christopher and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Vinod, Abraham P.},
    • title = {{Coordinated aerial inspection of infrastructure with heterogeneous drones}},
    • booktitle = {World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-101}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Saijo, K., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Wichern, G., Richter, J., Edo, T., Le Roux, J., "The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 4," Tech. Rep. TR2026-098, IEEE AASP Challenge on Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE Challenge), June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-098 PDF
    • @techreport{Saijo2026jun,
    • author = {{Saijo, Kohei and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Wichern, Gordon and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
    • title = {{The MERL Systems for DCASE 2026 Challenge Task 4}},
    • 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/TR2026-098}
    • }
  •  Yuan, W., Wang, P., Ahmadi, H., Liu, B., "Waveforms in 6G and Beyond", IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, DOI: 10.1109/​MCOMSTD.2026.3681093, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 96-97, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-099 PDF
    • @article{Yuan2026jun,
    • author = {{Yuan, Weijie and Wang, Pu and Ahmadi, Hamed and Liu, Bryan}},
    • title = {{Waveforms in 6G and Beyond}},
    • journal = {IEEE Communications Standards Magazine},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 10,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {96--97},
    • month = jun,
    • doi = {10.1109/MCOMSTD.2026.3681093},
    • issn = {2471-2833},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-099}
    • }
  •  Shanmuga Sundaram, J.P., Fujart, L., Duon, S., Gabidolla, M., Guo, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., Sumi, T., Nagai, Y., Carreira-Perpinan, M.A., Cerpa, A.E., "EDRP: Enhanced Dynamic Relay Point Protocol for Data Dissemination in Multi-hop Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-087 PDF
    • @article{ShanmugaSundaram2026jun,
    • author = {Shanmuga Sundaram, Jothi Prasanna and Fujart,Luis and Duon, Shaw and Gabidolla, Magzhan and Guo, Jianlin and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa and Carreira-Perpinan, Miguel A and Cerpa, Alberto E.},
    • title = {{EDRP: Enhanced Dynamic Relay Point Protocol for Data Dissemination in Multi-hop Wireless IoT Networks}},
    • journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-087}
    • }
  •  Lin, J.-T., Lu, Z., Wang, Y., "Closed-Loop Co-Design of Motors, Motions, and Feedback Control for Robotic Manipulators", Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Automation, DOI: 10.53941/​jaia.2026.100008, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-088 PDF
    • @article{Lin2026jun2,
    • author = {Lin, Jue-Te and Lu, Zehui and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Closed-Loop Co-Design of Motors, Motions, and Feedback Control for Robotic Manipulators}},
    • journal = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Automation},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 1,
    • number = 2,
    • month = jun,
    • doi = {10.53941/jaia.2026.100008},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-088}
    • }
  •  Schperberg, A., Panda, S.K., Vinod, A.P., Jawed, M.K., Di Cairano, S., "RoboAtlas: Contextual Active SLAM", arXiv, June 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Schperberg2026jun2,
    • author = {Schperberg, Alexander and Panda, Shivam K. and Vinod, Abraham P. and Jawed, M. K. and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{RoboAtlas: Contextual Active SLAM}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.26046}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Lohit, S., Peng, K.-C., "WISE: Weighted Iterative Society-of-Experts for Multimodal Multi-Agent Debate with Probabilistic Consensus", ICML SCALE AI Workshop, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-083 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2026jun,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Lohit, Suhas and Peng, Kuan-Chuan},
    • title = {{WISE: Weighted Iterative Society-of-Experts for Multimodal Multi-Agent Debate with Probabilistic Consensus}},
    • booktitle = {ICML SCALE AI Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-083}
    • }
  •  Deng, Y., Chatterjee, S., Taylor, N., Nikovski, D.N., "Pose-Based Visual Servocontrol with Keypoint Tracking", Asian Control Conference (ASCC), June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-082 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deng2026jun,
    • author = {{Deng, Yunfu and Chatterjee, Sreejani and Taylor, Nichols and Nikovski, Daniel N.}},
    • title = {{Pose-Based Visual Servocontrol with Keypoint Tracking}},
    • booktitle = {Asian Control Conference (ASCC)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-082}
    • }
  •  Chen, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., "Model Compression of Vision Transformer for Electric Motor Cogging Torque Prediction", IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-084 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chen2026jun,
    • author = {Chen, Jian and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan},
    • title = {{Model Compression of Vision Transformer for Electric Motor Cogging Torque Prediction}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-084}
    • }
  •  Zhou, Q., Gan, C., Cherian, A., "LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-081 PDF Video Software
    • @inproceedings{Zhou2026jun,
    • author = {Zhou, Qinhong and Gan, Chuang and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-081}
    • }
  •  Liu, D., Iwawaki, T., Hirakida, K., Matsui, Y., Wang, Y., "Robust Current Fault Signature Extraction for Train Traction Motors", 2026 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference & Expo, DOI: 10.1109/​ITECEATS66641.2026.11592837, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-080 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Liu2026jun2,
    • author = {Liu, Dehong and Iwawaki, Tomoyuki and Hirakida, Ken and Matsui, Yoshiki and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Robust Current Fault Signature Extraction for Train Traction Motors}},
    • booktitle = {2026 IEEE Transportation Electrification Conference \& Expo},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ITECEATS66641.2026.11592837},
    • issn = {2473-7631},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-8773-4},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-080}
    • }