Publications

3,813 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Wang, Y., Mineyuki, T., Zhan, S., Tang, W.-T., Paulson, J.A., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., "Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation", Building Simulation, April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-043 PDF
    • @article{Chakrabarty2025apr,
    • author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Wang, Ye and Mineyuki, Takuma and Zhan, Sicheng and Tang, Wei-Ting and Paulson, Joel A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation}},
    • journal = {Building Simulation},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-043}
    • }
  •  Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA), April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-045 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ick2025apr,
    • author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-045}
    • }
  •  Smedemark-Margulies, N., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Bicer, Y., Erdogmus, D., "Improving Subject Transfer in EEG Classification with Divergence Estimation", Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/​1741-2552/​ad9777, Vol. 21, No. 6, April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-044 PDF Software
    • @article{Smedemark-Margulies2025apr,
    • author = {Smedemark-Margulies, Niklas and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Bicer, Yunus and Erdogmus, Deniz},
    • title = {{Improving Subject Transfer in EEG Classification with Divergence Estimation}},
    • journal = {Journal of Neural Engineering},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 21,
    • number = 6,
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1088/1741-2552/ad9777},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-044}
    • }
  •  Wang, J.-W., Nikovski, D.N., "Learning Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated Cameras", The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-042 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025mar2,
    • author = {Wang, Jen-Wei and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Learning Visual Servoing for Nonholonomic Mobile Robots with Uncalibrated Cameras}},
    • booktitle = {The 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-042}
    • }
  •  Dong, Y., Yagyu, E., Matsuda, T., Teo, K.H., Lin, C., Rakheja, S., "An accurate electrical and thermal co-simulation framework for modeling high-temperature DC and pulsed I-V characteristics of GaN HEMTs", IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-041 PDF
    • @article{Dong2025mar,
    • author = {Dong, Yicong and Yagyu, Eiji and Matsuda, Takashi and Teo, Koon Hoo and Lin, Chungwei and Rakheja, Shaloo},
    • title = {{An accurate electrical and thermal co-simulation framework for modeling high-temperature DC and pulsed I-V characteristics of GaN HEMTs}},
    • journal = {IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-041}
    • }
  •  Das, A., Rahman, S., Xiang, X., Palash, R.H., Hossain, T., Sikder, B., Yagyu, E., Nakamura, M., Teo, K.H., Chowdhury, N., "Inverse Design of AlGaN/GaN HEMT RF Device with Source Connected Field Plate", Advanced Theory and Simulations, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-040 PDF
    • @article{Das2025mar,
    • author = {Das, Aurick and Rahman, Saimur and Xiang, Xiaofeng and Palash, Raffd Hassan and Hossain, Toiyob and Sikder, Bejoy and Yagyu, Eiji and Nakamura, Marika and Teo, Koon Hoo and Chowdhury, Nadim},
    • title = {{Inverse Design of AlGaN/GaN HEMT RF Device with Source Connected Field Plate}},
    • journal = {Advanced Theory and Simulations},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-040}
    • }
  •  Ranade, S., Pais, G., Whitaker, R., Nascimento, J., Miraldo, P., Ramalingam, S., "SurfR: Surface Reconstruction with Multi-scale Attention", International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-039 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Ranade2025mar,
    • author = {{{Ranade, Siddhant and Pais, Goncalo and Whitaker, Ross and Nascimento, Jacinto and Miraldo, Pedro and Ramalingam, Srikumar}}},
    • title = {{{SurfR: Surface Reconstruction with Multi-scale Attention}}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-039}
    • }
  •  Shenoy, V., Lohit, S., Mansour, H., Chellappa, R., Marks, T.K., "Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models", arXiv, March 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shenoy2025mar,
    • author = {Shenoy, Vineet and Lohit, Suhas and Mansour, Hassan and Chellappa, Rama and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17269}
    • }
  •  Shenoy, V., Wu, S., Comas, A., Marks, T.K., Lohit, S., Mansour, H., "Time-Series U-Net with Recurrence for Noise-Robust Imaging Photoplethysmography", arXiv, March 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shenoy2025mar2,
    • author = {Shenoy, Vineet and Wu, Shaoju and Comas, Armand and Marks, Tim K. and Lohit, Suhas and Mansour, Hassan},
    • title = {{Time-Series U-Net with Recurrence for Noise-Robust Imaging Photoplethysmography}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17351}
    • }
  •  Wilkinghoff, K., Fujimura, T., Imoto, K., Le Roux, J., Tan, Z.-H., Toda, T., "Handling Domain Shifts for Anomalous Sound Detection: A Review of DCASE-Related Work", arXiv, March 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Wilkinghoff2025mar2,
    • author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Fujimura, Takuya and Imoto, Keisuke and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Tan, Zheng-Hua and Toda, Tomoki},
    • title = {{Handling Domain Shifts for Anomalous Sound Detection: A Review of DCASE-Related Work}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10435}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Raghunathan, A., Jha, D.K., "Hierarchical Contact-Rich Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Modal Manipulation using Tight Convex Relaxations", arXiv, March 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shirai2025mar,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Raghunathan, Arvind and Jha, Devesh K.},
    • title = {{Hierarchical Contact-Rich Trajectory Optimization for Multi-Modal Manipulation using Tight Convex Relaxations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.07963}
    • }
  •  Schperberg, A., Menner, M., Di Cairano, S., "Energy-Efficient Motion Planner for Legged Robots", arXiv, March 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Schperberg2025mar,
    • author = {Schperberg, Alexander and Menner, Marcel and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Energy-Efficient Motion Planner for Legged Robots}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.06050}
    • }
  •  Tian, J., Shi, J., Chen, W., Arora, S., Masuyama, Y., Takashi, M., Wu, Y., Peng, J., Bharadwaj, S., Zhao, Y., Cornell, S., Peng, Y., Yue, X., Yang, C.-H.H., Neubig, G., Watanabe, S., "ESPnet-SpeechLM: An Open Speech Language Model Toolkit", NAACL-HLT (the system demonstration track), March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-038 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Tian2025mar,
    • author = {Tian, Jinchuan and Shi, Jiatong and Chen, William and Arora, Siddhant and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Takashi, Maekaku and Wu, Yihan and Peng, Junyi and Bharadwaj, Shikhar and Zhao, Yiwen and Cornell, Samuele and Peng, Yifan and Yue, Xiang and Yang, Chao-Han H. and Neubig, Graham and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {{ESPnet-SpeechLM: An Open Speech Language Model Toolkit}},
    • booktitle = {NAACL-HLT (the system demonstration track)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-038}
    • }
  •  Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, March 2025.
    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 = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-025}
    • }
  •  Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Implicit Neural Compression", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-024 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fujihashi2025mar,
    • author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Quantum Implicit Neural Compression}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-024}
    • }
  •  Vinod, A.P., Weiss, A., Di Cairano, S., "Projection-free computation of robust controllable sets with constrained zonotopes", Automatica, DOI: 10.1016/​j.automatica.2025.112211, Vol. 175, pp. 112211, March 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-023 PDF Video
    • @article{Vinod2025mar,
    • author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Weiss, Avishai and Di Cairano, Stefano},
    • title = {{Projection-free computation of robust controllable sets with constrained zonotopes}},
    • journal = {Automatica},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 175,
    • pages = 112211,
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1016/j.automatica.2025.112211},
    • issn = {0005-1098},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-023}
    • }
  •  Shao, K., Chakrabarty, A., Mesbah, A., Romeres, D., "Coactive Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Application to Policy Learning in Personalized Plasma Medicine", IEEE Control Systems Letters, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-021 PDF
    • @article{Shao2025feb,
    • author = {Shao, Ketong and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Mesbah, Ali and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Coactive Preference-Guided Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization: An Application to Policy Learning in Personalized Plasma Medicine}},
    • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-021}
    • }
  •  Cai, X., Queeney, J., Xu, T., Datar, A., Pan, C., Miller, M., Flather, A., Osteen, P.R., Roy, N., Xiao, X., How, J.P., "PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), DOI: 10.1109/​LRA.2025.3527285, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 2359-2366, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-022 PDF
    • @article{Cai2025feb,
    • author = {Cai, Xiaoyi and Queeney, James and Xu, Tong and Datar, Aniket and Pan, Chenhui and Miller, Max and Flather, Ashton and Osteen, Philip R. and Roy, Nicholas and Xiao, Xuesu and How, Jonathan P.},
    • title = {{PIETRA: Physics-Informed Evidential Learning for Traversing Out-of-Distribution Terrain}},
    • journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 10,
    • number = 3,
    • pages = {2359--2366},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/LRA.2025.3527285},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-022}
    • }
  •  Wang, Y., Peng, K.-C., Fu, R., "Towards Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Localization", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Biswas, S. and Averbuch-Elor, H. and Štruc, V. and Yang, Y., Eds., DOI: 10.1109/​WACV61041.2025.00148, February 2025, pp. 1447-1456.
    BibTeX TR2025-020 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Wang2025feb2,
    • author = {Wang, Yizhou and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Fu, Raymond},
    • title = {{Towards Zero-shot 3D Anomaly Localization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    • year = 2025,
    • editor = {Biswas, S. and Averbuch-Elor, H. and Štruc, V. and Yang, Y.},
    • pages = {1447--1456},
    • month = feb,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/WACV61041.2025.00148},
    • issn = {2642-9381},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-1083-1},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-020}
    • }
  •  Ip, J.H.S., Chakrabarty, A., Mesbah, A., Romeres, D., "User Preference Meets Pareto-Optimality in Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-018 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ip2025feb,
    • author = {{{Ip, Joshua Hang Sai and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Mesbah, Ali and Romeres, Diego}}},
    • title = {{{User Preference Meets Pareto-Optimality in Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization}}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-018}
    • }
  •  Rashid, M.R.U., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Mehnaz, S., "Forget to Flourish: Leveraging Machine-Unlearning on Pretrained Language Models for Privacy Leakage", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-017 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Rashid2025feb,
    • author = {Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Mehnaz, Shagufta},
    • title = {{Forget to Flourish: Leveraging Machine-Unlearning on Pretrained Language Models for Privacy Leakage}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-017}
    • }
  •  Lewis, A., White, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in QA Agents", arXiv, February 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Lewis2025feb,
    • author = {Lewis, Ashley and White, Michael and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Winning Big with Small Models: Knowledge Distillation vs. Self-Training for Reducing Hallucination in QA Agents}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.19545}
    • }
  •  Mumcu, F., Jones, M.J., Yilmaz, Y., Cherian, A., "ComplexVAD: Detecting Interaction Anomalies in Video", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshop, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-016 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Mumcu2025feb,
    • author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Jones, Michael J. and Yilmaz, Yasin and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{ComplexVAD: Detecting Interaction Anomalies in Video}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshop},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-016}
    • }
  •  Shimane, Y., Di Cairano, S., Ho, K., Weiss, A., "Output-Feedback Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control for Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits", arXiv, February 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shimane2025feb,
    • author = {Shimane, Yuri and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Ho, Koki and Weiss, Avishai},
    • title = {{Output-Feedback Full-State Targeting Model Predictive Control for Station-Keeping on Near-Rectilinear Halo Orbits}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05013}
    • }
  •  Queeney, J., Paschalidis, I.C., Cassandras, C.G., "Generalized Policy Improvement Algorithms with Theoretically Supported Sample Reuse", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, DOI: 10.1109/​TAC.2024.3454011, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 1236-1243, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-015 PDF
    • @article{Queeney2025feb,
    • author = {Queeney, James and Paschalidis, Ioannis Ch. and Cassandras, Christos G.},
    • title = {{Generalized Policy Improvement Algorithms with Theoretically Supported Sample Reuse}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 70,
    • number = 2,
    • pages = {1236--1243},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/TAC.2024.3454011},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-015}
    • }