Publications

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


  •  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}
    • }
  •  Vats, S., Harithas, S., Akbulut, M., Raghunathan, A., Konidaris, G., "Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget", arXiv, August 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Vats2026aug,
    • author = {Vats, Shivam and Harithas, Sudarshan and Akbulut, Mete and Raghunathan, Arvind and Konidaris, George},
    • title = {{Deliberate Practice: Learning Robot Skills under a Budget}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13415}
    • }
  •  Washino, M., Lin, C., Matsuda, T., Seino, S., Nakagawa, T., Kiwa, T., "Effect of Coil Geometry on Sensitivity Distribution in Field-Free Line Magnetic Particle Imaging", Scientific Report, August 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-115 PDF
    • @article{Washino2026aug,
    • author = {Washino, Masaomi and Lin, Chungwei and Matsuda, Tetsuya and Seino, Satoshi and Nakagawa, Takashi and Kiwa, Toshihiko},
    • title = {{Effect of Coil Geometry on Sensitivity Distribution in Field-Free Line Magnetic Particle Imaging}},
    • journal = {Scientific Report},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-115}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Kar, A.S., Sun, H., Raghunathan, A., Guo, J., "Coordinated Energy-Aware Job Scheduling and Flexibility Provisioning in Distributed Data Centers", IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-113 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kar2026jul,
    • author = {Kar, Aditya Shankar and Sun, Hongbo and Raghunathan, Arvind and Guo, Jianlin},
    • title = {{Coordinated Energy-Aware Job Scheduling and Flexibility Provisioning in Distributed Data Centers}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE PES General Meeting},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-113}
    • }
  •  Lawson, R., Sun, H., Kawano, S., Raghunathan, A., Takaguchi, Y., "Multi-Conductor Flexible Universal Branch Model for Efficient Hybrid AC/DC Power System Load Flow Computation", IEEE PES General Meeting, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-114 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lawson2026jul,
    • author = {Lawson, Riley and Sun, Hongbo and Kawano, Shunsuke and Raghunathan, Arvind and Takaguchi, Yusuke},
    • title = {{Multi-Conductor Flexible Universal Branch Model for Efficient Hybrid AC/DC Power System Load Flow Computation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE PES General Meeting},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-114}
    • }
  •  Botvinick-Greenhouse, J., Ali, W.H., Benosman, M., Mowlavi, S., "AB-PINNs: Adaptive-Basis Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Residual-Driven Domain Decomposition", Machine Learning: Science and Technology, DOI: 10.1088/​2632-2153/​ae8638, Vol. 7, No. 045025, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-116 PDF Software
    • @article{Botvinick-Greenhouse2026jul,
    • author = {Botvinick-Greenhouse, Jonah and Ali, Wael H. and Benosman, Mouhacine and Mowlavi, Saviz},
    • title = {{AB-PINNs: Adaptive-Basis Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Residual-Driven Domain Decomposition}},
    • journal = {Machine Learning: Science and Technology},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 7,
    • number = 045025,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1088/2632-2153/ae8638},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-116}
    • }
  •  Zhai, H., Qiao, H., Mansour, H., Laughman, C.R., "Scalable DAE-Constrained PINODE Framework for Vapor-Compression HVAC Systems", International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-111 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhai2026jul,
    • author = {Zhai, Hanfeng and Qiao, Hongtao and Mansour, Hassan and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Scalable DAE-Constrained PINODE Framework for Vapor-Compression HVAC Systems}},
    • booktitle = {International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-111}
    • }
  •  Chakrabarty, A., Nikovski, D.N., "Quantifying Similarity Between Nonlinear Systems From Data Using Matrix Profiles", International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT), DOI: 10.1109/​CoDIT70676.2026.11631259, July 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-108 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2026jul,
    • author = {{Chakrabarty, Ankush and Nikovski, Daniel N.}},
    • title = {{Quantifying Similarity Between Nonlinear Systems From Data Using Matrix Profiles}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Control, Decision, and Information Technologies (CoDIT)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jul,
    • doi = {10.1109/CoDIT70676.2026.11631259},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-108}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }