Publications

363 / 4,055 publications found.


  •  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}
    • }
  •  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", arXiv, June 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Hu2026jun,
    • 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}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.09630}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Ryo, H., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Hato, J., "Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models", International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, DOI: 10.1109/​ISDFS69419.2026.11458930, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-036 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ryo2026mar,
    • author = {Ryo, Hase and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Hato, Jumpei},
    • title = {{Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ISDFS69419.2026.11458930},
    • issn = {2768-1831},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-7310-2},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-036}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Chen, X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Wang, P., Brand, M., "LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor, Eds., DOI: 10.1609/​aaai.v40i27.39425, March 2026, vol. 40, pp. 22644-22652.
    BibTeX TR2026-018 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026jan,
    • author = {{{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Chen, Xiangyu and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew}}},
    • title = {{{LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention}}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor},
    • volume = 40,
    • number = 27,
    • pages = {22644--22652},
    • month = jan,
    • publisher = {AAAI Press},
    • doi = {10.1609/aaai.v40i27.39425},
    • issn = {2374-3468},
    • isbn = {978-1-57735-906-7},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-018}
    • }
  •  Khattar, V., Rashid, M.R.U., Choudhury, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Jin, M., Wang, Y., "Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Khattar2026mar,
    • author = {{Khattar, Vanshaj and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Choudhury, Moumita and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Jin, Ming and Wang, Ye}},
    • title = {{Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15417}
    • }
  •  Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Sun, S., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Wang, B., "Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest", IEEJ, March 2026.
    BibTeX
    • @inproceedings{Yamamoto2026mar,
    • author = {Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Sun, Siyuan and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Wang, Bingnan},
    • title = {{Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest}},
    • booktitle = {IEEJ},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar
    • }
  •  Sohail, M.A., Koike-Akino, T., "Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Sohail2026mar,
    • author = {Sohail, Mohammad A and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10325}
    • }
  •  Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Shaukat Ali, Francisco Chicano, Alberto Moraglio, Eds., DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-032-15931-1, January 2026, pp. 46-59.
    BibTeX TR2025-025 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025mar,
    • author = {Wang, Ruhan and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning},
    • booktitle = {Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence: First International Workshop, QC+AI 2025},
    • year = 2025,
    • editor = {Shaukat Ali, Francisco Chicano, Alberto Moraglio},
    • pages = {46--59},
    • month = mar,
    • publisher = {Springer Cham},
    • doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-15931-1},
    • issn = {1865-0929},
    • isbn = {978-3-032-15931-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-025}
    • }
  •  Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", Springer Nature, DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-032-15931-1, pp. 46-59, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-042 PDF
    • @article{Wang2026apr,
    • author = {Wang, Ruhan and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning}},
    • journal = {Springer Nature},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {46--59},
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-15931-1},
    • issn = {1865-0929},
    • isbn = {978-3-032-15931-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-042}
    • }
  •  Khattar, V., Choudhury, M., Rashid, M.R.U., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Jin, M., Wang, Y., "Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities", AAAI Workshop on Trust and Control in Agentic AI, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-020 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Khattar2026jan,
    • author = {Khattar, Vanshaj and Choudhury, Moumita and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Jin, Ming and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Trust and Control in Agentic AI},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jan,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-020}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Implicit Neural Compression", Springer Nature, DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-032-15931-1, Vol. 2813, pp. 60-69, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-022 PDF
    • @article{Fujihashi2026jan,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Quantum Implicit Neural Compression}},
    • journal = {Springer Nature},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 2813,
    • pages = {60--69},
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-15931-1},
    • issn = {1865-0937},
    • isbn = {978-3-032-15931-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-022}
    • }
  •  Kuwabara, A., Kato, S., Koike-Akino, T., Fujihashi, T., "Date of publication xxxx 00, 0000, date of current version xxxx 00, 0000. Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ACCESS.2017.DOI Range Image-Based Implicit Neural Compression for LiDAR Point Clouds", IEEE Access, DOI: 10.1109/​ACCESS.2026.3654068, Vol. 14, pp. 10262-10275, January 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-023 PDF
    • @article{Kuwabara2026feb,
    • author = {Kuwabara, Akihiro and Kato, Sorachi and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Fujihashi, Takuya},
    • title = {{Range Image-Based Implicit Neural Compression for LiDAR Point Clouds}},
    • journal = {IEEE Access},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 14,
    • pages = {10262--10275},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3654068},
    • issn = {2169-3536},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-023}
    • }
  •  Park, Y.-J., Germain, F.G., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wichern, G., Azizan, N., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models", Energy and Buildings, DOI: 10.1016/​j.enbuild.2025.116446, Vol. 348, pp. 116446, December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-030 PDF
    • @article{Park2026mar,
    • author = {Park, Young-Jin and Germain, François G and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wichern, Gordon and Azizan, Navid and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models}},
    • journal = {Energy and Buildings},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 348,
    • pages = 116446,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.enbuild.2025.116446},
    • issn = {0378-7788},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-030}
    • }
  •  Taguchi, M., Koike-Akino, T., Kojima, K., "Polarization-Based Data Reuploading", The IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), DOI: 10.1109/​IPC65510.2025.11282035, November 2025.
    BibTeX TR2026-021 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Taguchi2025dec,
    • author = {Taguchi, Mari and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Kojima, Keisuke},
    • title = {{Polarization-Based Data Reuploading}},
    • booktitle = {The IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IPC65510.2025.11282035},
    • issn = {2575-274X},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-2559-0},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-021}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Kuwabara, A., Koike-Akino, T., "QKAN-GS: Quantum-Empowered 3D Gaussian Splatting", ACM Multimedia Workshop, DOI: 10.1145/​3728486.375921, October 2025, pp. 51-55.
    BibTeX TR2025-156 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2025oct,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Kuwabara, Akihiro and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{QKAN-GS: Quantum-Empowered 3D Gaussian Splatting}},
    • booktitle = {ACM Multimedia Workshop},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {51--55},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {ACM},
    • doi = {10.1145/3728486.375921},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-156}
    • }