Publications

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  •  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}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., "Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-131 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026sep2,
    • author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-131}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Koike-Akino, T., Mitchell, D., "Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-130 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep2,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Mitchell, David}},
    • title = {{Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-130}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-132 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep3,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-132}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-133 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep4,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-133}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-129 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-129}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Blaykhman, V., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Vinokur, G.V., "Vibe Patenting: Evaluating LLM Judges for Professional Patent-Drafting Agents", arXiv, September 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Koike-Akino2026sep,
    • author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Blaykhman, Vlad and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Vinokur, Gennadiy V.}},
    • title = {{Vibe Patenting: Evaluating LLM Judges for Professional Patent-Drafting Agents}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13422}
    • }
  •  Sun, S., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., "A BERT-Based Surrogate Model for Permanent Magnet Motor Cogging Torque Prediction", International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-123 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sun2026sep,
    • author = {{Sun, Siyuan and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan}},
    • title = {{A BERT-Based Surrogate Model for Permanent Magnet Motor Cogging Torque Prediction}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-123}
    • }
  •  Hu, H., Kogashi, K., Koike-Akino, T., "TacSushi: Tactile-Grounded World-Action Modeling for Dexterous Sushi Manipulation", arXiv, August 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Hu2026aug,
    • author = {Hu, Haodi and Kogashi, Kaen and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{TacSushi: Tactile-Grounded World-Action Modeling for Dexterous Sushi Manipulation}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19613}
    • }
  •  Choudhury, M., Khattar, V., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Chakrabarty, A., Zilberstein, S., Wang, Y., "Training Language Models to Cooperate with Inference-Time Controllers", arXiv, July 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Choudhury2026jul,
    • author = {Choudhury, Moumita and Khattar, Vanshaj and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Zilberstein, Shlomo and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Training Language Models to Cooperate with Inference-Time Controllers}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.23771}
    • }
  •  Otsu, S., Suzuki, K., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "Beyond Heavy Log Curation: Perplexity-Based APT Detection via Unsupervised, Context-Augmented Language Models", arXiv, July 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Otsu2026jul,
    • author = {Otsu, Shoya and Suzuki, Kei and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Beyond Heavy Log Curation: Perplexity-Based APT Detection via Unsupervised, Context-Augmented Language Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20832}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Kojima, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Photonic Neural Networks without Nonlinear Optical Devices", Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kojima2026may,
    • author = {Kojima, Keisuke and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Photonic Neural Networks without Nonlinear Optical Devices}},
    • booktitle = {Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-102}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }