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  •  Xiong, G., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Orlik, P.V., Li, J., "UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), June 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-082 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Xiong2025jun,
    • author = {Xiong, Guojun and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V. and Li, Jian},
    • title = {{UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-082}
    • }
  •  Li, S.H.Q., Vinod, A.P., "Markov Potential Game with Final-time Reach-Avoid Objective", arXiv, October 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Li2024oct2,
    • author = {Li, Sarah H. Q. and Vinod, Abraham P.},
    • title = {{Markov Potential Game with Final-time Reach-Avoid Objective}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.17690}
    • }
  •  Giacomuzzo, G., Terreran, M., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS58592.2024.10802728, October 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-138 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Giacomuzzo2024oct,
    • author = {Giacomuzzo, Giulio and Terreran, Matteo and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{DECAF: a Discrete-Event based Collaborative Human-Robot Framework for Furniture Assembly}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS58592.2024.10802728},
    • issn = {2153-0866},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-7770-5},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-138}
    • }
  •  Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Goyal, V.K., "The Role of Detection Times in Reflectivity Estimation with Single-Photon Lidar", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, DOI: 10.1109/​JSTQE.2023.3333834, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 8800114:1-14, January 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-003 PDF
    • @article{Kitichotkul2024jan,
    • author = {Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Goyal, Vivek K},
    • title = {{The Role of Detection Times in Reflectivity Estimation with Single-Photon Lidar}},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics},
    • year = 2024,
    • volume = 30,
    • number = 1,
    • pages = {8800114:1--14},
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.1109/JSTQE.2023.3333834},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-003}
    • }
  •  Liu, X., Paul, S., Chatterjee, M., Cherian, A., "CAVEN: An Embodied Conversational Agent for Efficient Audio-Visual Navigation in Noisy Environments", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, DOI: 10.1609/​aaai.v38i4.28167, December 2023, pp. 3765-3773.
    BibTeX TR2023-154 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Liu2023dec2,
    • author = {Liu, Xiulong and Paul, Sudipta and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{CAVEN: An Embodied Conversational Agent for Efficient Audio-Visual Navigation in Noisy Environments}},
    • booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {3765--3773},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1609/aaai.v38i4.28167},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-154}
    • }
  •  Curtis, A., Kaelbling, L., Jain, S., "Task-Directed Exploration in Continuous POMDPs for Robotic Manipulation of Articulated Objects", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), DOI: 10.1109/​ICRA48891.2023.10160306, May 2023, pp. 3721-3728.
    BibTeX TR2023-046 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Curtis2023may,
    • author = {Curtis, Aidan and Kaelbling, Leslie and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {{Task-Directed Exploration in Continuous POMDPs for Robotic Manipulation of Articulated Objects}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
    • year = 2023,
    • pages = {3721--3728},
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160306},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-2365-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-046}
    • }
  •  Paulson, J.A., Sorouifar, F., Chakrabarty, A., "Efficient Multi-Step Lookahead Bayesian Optimization with Local Search Constraints", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/​CDC51059.2022.9992943, December 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-161 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Paulson2022dec,
    • author = {Paulson, Joel A. and Sorouifar, Farshud and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Efficient Multi-Step Lookahead Bayesian Optimization with Local Search Constraints}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
    • year = 2022,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/CDC51059.2022.9992943},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-161}
    • }
  •  Suda, T., Nikovski, D., "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Sailing Upwind", IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN, DOI: 10.1109/​IJCNN55064.2022.9892369, September 2022, pp. 1-8.
    BibTeX TR2022-102 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Suda2022sep,
    • author = {{{Suda, Takumi and Nikovski, Daniel}}},
    • title = {{{Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Sailing Upwind}}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks IJCNN},
    • year = 2022,
    • pages = {1--8},
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/IJCNN55064.2022.9892369},
    • issn = {2161-4393},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-8671-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-102}
    • }
  •  Higuchi, Y., Moritz, N., Le Roux, J., Hori, T., "Momentum Pseudo-Labeling: Semi-Supervised ASR with Continuously Improving Pseudo-Labels", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​JSTSP.2022.3195367, Vol. 16, No. 6, pp. 1424-1438, September 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-112 PDF
    • @article{Higuchi2022sep,
    • author = {Higuchi, Yosuke and Moritz, Niko and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Hori, Takaaki},
    • title = {{Momentum Pseudo-Labeling: Semi-Supervised ASR with Continuously Improving Pseudo-Labels}},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
    • year = 2022,
    • volume = 16,
    • number = 6,
    • pages = {1424--1438},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1109/JSTSP.2022.3195367},
    • issn = {1941-0484},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-112}
    • }
  •  Russel, R.H., Benosman, M., van Baar, J., Corcodel, R., "Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning" in Federated and Transfer Learning, Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Boyu Wang, Matthew E. Taylor, Qiang Yang, Eds., DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-031-11748-0_13, pp. 307–328, Springer, Cham, August 2022.
    BibTeX TR2022-111 PDF
    • @incollection{Russel2022aug,
    • author = {Russel, Reazul Hasan and Benosman, Mouhacine and {van Baar}, Jeroen and Corcodel, Radu},
    • title = {{Lyapunov Robust Constrained-MDPs for Sim2Real Transfer Learning}},
    • booktitle = {Federated and Transfer Learning},
    • year = 2022,
    • editor = {Roozbeh Razavi-Far, Boyu Wang, Matthew E. Taylor, Qiang Yang},
    • pages = {307–328},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {Springer, Cham},
    • doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-11748-0_13},
    • isbn = {978-3-031-11747-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-111}
    • }
  •  Jurdi, R., Guo, J., Kim, K.J., Orlik, P.V., Nagai, Y., "Queueing Delay Analysis of Mixed Traffic in Time Sensitive Networks", International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation Engineering (ICIMA), October 2021.
    BibTeX TR2021-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jurdi2021oct,
    • author = {Jurdi, Rebal and Guo, Jianlin and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Orlik, Philip V. and Nagai, Yukimasa},
    • title = {{Queueing Delay Analysis of Mixed Traffic in Time Sensitive Networks}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation Engineering (ICIMA)},
    • year = 2021,
    • month = oct,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-122}
    • }
  •  Raychaudhuri, D.S., van Baar, J., Paul, S., Roy-Chowdhury, A.K., "Cross-domain Imitation from Observations", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2021.
    BibTeX TR2021-074 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Raychaudhuri2021jun,
    • author = {Raychaudhuri, Dripta S. and {van Baar}, Jeroen and Paul, Sujoy and Roy-Chowdhury, Amit K.},
    • title = {{Cross-domain Imitation from Observations}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2021,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-074}
    • }
  •  Russel, R.H., Benosman, M., van Baar, J., "Robust Constrained-MDPs: Soft-Constrained Robust Policy Optimization under Model Uncertainty", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)-workshop, January 2021.
    BibTeX TR2021-009 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Russel2021jan,
    • author = {Russel, Reazul Hasan and Benosman, Mouhacine and {van Baar}, Jeroen},
    • title = {{Robust Constrained-MDPs: Soft-Constrained Robust Policy Optimization under Model Uncertainty}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)-workshop},
    • year = 2021,
    • month = jan,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-009}
    • }
  •  Xu, H., Sun, H., Nikovski, D.N., Kitamura, S., Mori, K., Hashimoto, H., "Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Bidding and Pricing of Load Serving Entity", IEEE Transactions on smart grids, DOI: 10.1109/​TSG.2019.2903756, Vol. 10, No. 6, pp. 6366-6375, January 2020.
    BibTeX TR2020-003 PDF
    • @article{Xu2020jan,
    • author = {Xu, Hanchen and Sun, Hongbo and Nikovski, Daniel N. and Kitamura, Shoichi and Mori, Kazuyuki and Hashimoto, Hiroyuki},
    • title = {{Deep Reinforcement Learning for Joint Bidding and Pricing of Load Serving Entity}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on smart grids},
    • year = 2020,
    • volume = 10,
    • number = 6,
    • pages = {6366--6375},
    • month = jan,
    • doi = {10.1109/TSG.2019.2903756},
    • issn = {1949-3061},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-003}
    • }
  •  Berntorp, K., Hiroaki, K., "Bayesian Learning of Tire Friction with Automotive-Grade Sensors by Gaussian-Process State-Space Models", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), DOI: 10.1109/​CDC40024.2019.9029732, December 2019, pp. 6681-6686.
    BibTeX TR2019-145 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Berntorp2019dec,
    • author = {Berntorp, Karl and Hiroaki, Kitano},
    • title = {{Bayesian Learning of Tire Friction with Automotive-Grade Sensors by Gaussian-Process State-Space Models}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {6681--6686},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/CDC40024.2019.9029732},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-145}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "DNN-based Overhead Reduction for High-Quality Soft Delivery", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), DOI: 10.1109/​GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014124, December 2019.
    BibTeX TR2019-133 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2019dec2,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{DNN-based Overhead Reduction for High-Quality Soft Delivery}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2019,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM38437.2019.9014124},
    • issn = {2576-6813},
    • isbn = {978-1-7281-0962-6},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-133}
    • }
  •  Karafiat, M., Baskar, M.K., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Wiesner, M., Cernocky, J.H., "Analysis of Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition Systems", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-2355/​/​, September 2019, pp. 2019-2355.
    BibTeX TR2019-103 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Karafiat2019sep,
    • author = {Karafiat, Martin and Baskar, Murali Karthick and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Wiesner, Matthew and Cernocky, Jan, Honza},
    • title = {{Analysis of Multilingual Sequence-to-Sequence Speech Recognition Systems}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {2019--2355},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2355//},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-103}
    • }
  •  Moritz, N., Hori, T., Le Roux, J., "Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2019-2837, September 2019, pp. 76-80.
    BibTeX TR2019-098 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Moritz2019sep,
    • author = {Moritz, Niko and Hori, Takaaki and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Unidirectional Neural Network Architectures for End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {76--80},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2019-2837},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-098}
    • }
  •  Berntorp, K., "Bayesian Tire-Friction Learning by Gaussian-Process State-Space Models", European Control Conference (ECC), DOI: 10.23919/​ECC.2019.8796193, June 2019, pp. 231-236.
    BibTeX TR2019-051 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Berntorp2019jun,
    • author = {Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Bayesian Tire-Friction Learning by Gaussian-Process State-Space Models}},
    • booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
    • year = 2019,
    • pages = {231--236},
    • month = jun,
    • doi = {10.23919/ECC.2019.8796193},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-051}
    • }
  •  Jha, D.K., "Algorithms for Task Allocation in Homogeneous Swarm of Robots", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), DOI: 10.1109/​IROS.2018.8594052, October 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-151 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Jha2018oct,
    • author = {Jha, Devesh K.},
    • title = {{Algorithms for Task Allocation in Homogeneous Swarm of Robots}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2018,
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1109/IROS.2018.8594052},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-151}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "FreeCast: Graceful Free-Viewpoint Video Delivery", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, DOI: 10.1109/​TMM.2018.2870074, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 1000-1010, September 2018.
    BibTeX TR2018-134 PDF
    • @article{Fujihashi2018sep,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{FreeCast: Graceful Free-Viewpoint Video Delivery}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
    • year = 2018,
    • volume = 21,
    • number = 4,
    • pages = {1000--1010},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.1109/TMM.2018.2870074},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-134}
    • }
  •  Ochiai, T., Watanabe, S., Katagiri, S., Hori, T., Hershey, J.R., "Speaker Adaptation for Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP.2018.8462161, April 2018, pp. 6707-6711.
    BibTeX TR2018-006 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ochiai2018apr,
    • author = {Ochiai, Tsubasa and Watanabe, Shinji and Katagiri, Shigeru and Hori, Takaaki and Hershey, John R.},
    • title = {{Speaker Adaptation for Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2018,
    • pages = {6707--6711},
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2018.8462161},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2018-006}
    • }
  •  Ochiai, T., Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Hershey, J.R., Xiao, X., "Unified Architecture for Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition with Neural Beamforming", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​JSTSP.2017.2764276, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 1274-1288, October 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-192 PDF
    • @article{Ochiai2017oct2,
    • author = {Ochiai, Tsubasa and Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Hershey, John R. and Xiao, Xiong},
    • title = {{Unified Architecture for Multichannel End-to-End Speech Recognition with Neural Beamforming}},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
    • year = 2017,
    • volume = 11,
    • number = 8,
    • pages = {1274--1288},
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1109/JSTSP.2017.2764276},
    • issn = {1941-0484},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-192}
    • }
  •  Watanabe, S., Hori, T., Kim, S., Hershey, J.R., Hayashi, T., "Hybrid CTC/Attention Architecture for End-to-End Speech Recognition", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/​JSTSP.2017.2763455, Vol. 11, No. 8, pp. 1240-1253, October 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-190 PDF Video
    • @article{Watanabe2017oct,
    • author = {Watanabe, Shinji and Hori, Takaaki and Kim, Suyoun and Hershey, John R. and Hayashi, Tomoki},
    • title = {{Hybrid CTC/Attention Architecture for End-to-End Speech Recognition}},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing},
    • year = 2017,
    • volume = 11,
    • number = 8,
    • pages = {1240--1253},
    • month = oct,
    • doi = {10.1109/JSTSP.2017.2763455},
    • issn = {1941-0484},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-190}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., Watanabe, T., Orlik, P.V., "High-Quality Soft Video Delivery with GMRF-Based Overhead Reduction", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, DOI: 10.1109/​TMM.2017.2743984, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 473-483, August 2017.
    BibTeX TR2017-119 PDF
    • @article{Fujihashi2017aug,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Watanabe, Takashi and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{High-Quality Soft Video Delivery with GMRF-Based Overhead Reduction}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Multimedia},
    • year = 2017,
    • volume = 20,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {473--483},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/TMM.2017.2743984},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2017-119}
    • }