Publications

3,929 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Bortoff, S.A., Tsuji, K., "Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-128 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bortoff2025aug,
    • author = {Bortoff, Scott A. and Tsuji, Kosei},
    • title = {{Robust Unfalsified Control of a Heat Pump}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-128}
    • }
  •  Lu, Z., Tu, H., Fang, H., Wang, Y., Mou, S., "A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-127 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lu2025aug,
    • author = {Lu, Zehui and Tu, Hao and Fang, Huazhen and Wang, Yebin and Mou, Shaoshuai},
    • title = {{A Real-time High C-rate Lithium-ion Battery Fast Charging Strategy}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-127}
    • }
  •  Ji, D.-Y., Wang, B., Inoue, H., Kanemaru, M., "Simulation-to-Reality Domain Adaptation for Motor Fault Detection", IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-126 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ji2025aug,
    • author = {Ji, Dai-Yan and Wang, Bingnan and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
    • title = {{Simulation-to-Reality Domain Adaptation for Motor Fault Detection}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-126}
    • }
  •  Xiang, X., Peng, K.-C., Lohit, S., Jones, M.J., Zhang, J., "Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Xiang2025aug,
    • author = {Xiang, Xinhao and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lohit, Suhas and Jones, Michael J. and Zhang, Jiawei},
    • title = {{Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16812}
    • }
  •  Yataka, R., Wang, P., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., "End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding", European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-125 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yataka2025aug,
    • author = {Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
    • title = {{End-to-End Radar Human Segmentation with Differentiable Positional Encoding}},
    • booktitle = {European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-125}
    • }
  •  Lin, C., Ding, Q., Ma, Y., "Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Lin2025aug,
    • author = {Lin, Chungwei and Ding, Qi (Andy) and Ma, Yanting},
    • title = {{Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13405}
    • }
  •  Stein, A., Wang, Y., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., Fang, H., "Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator", IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-121 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Stein2025aug,
    • author = {Stein, Adrian and Wang, Yebin and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan and Fang, Huazhen},
    • title = {{Application-Oriented Co-Design of Motors and Motions for a 6DOF Robot Manipulator}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Automation and Science Engineering},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-121}
    • }
  •  Hussein, A., Khurana, S., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2063, August 2025, pp. 5393-5397.
    BibTeX TR2025-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hussein2025aug,
    • author = {Hussein, Amir and Khurana, Sameer and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{HASRD: Hierarchical Acoustic and Semantic Representation Disentanglement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {5393--5397},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2063},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-122}
    • }
  •  Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-1912, August 2025, pp. 933-937.
    BibTeX TR2025-120 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ick2025aug,
    • author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields for Few-Shot Interpolation of Ambisonic Impulse Responses}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {933--937},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-1912},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-120}
    • }
  •  Khurana, S., Klement, D., Laurent, A., Bobos, D., Novosad, J., Gazdik, P., Zhang, E., Huang, Z., Hussein, A., Marxer, R., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Hori, C., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2612, August 2025, pp. 3514-3518.
    BibTeX TR2025-123 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Khurana2025aug,
    • author = {Khurana, Sameer and Klement, Dominik and Laurent, Antoine and Bobos, Dominik and Novosad, Juraj and Gazdik, Peter and Zhang, Ellen and Huang, Zilli and Hussein, Amir and Marxer, Ricard and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Hori, Chiori and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Factorized RVQ-GAN For Disentangled Speech Tokenization}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {3514--3518},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2612},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-123}
    • }
  •  Yang, H., Wichern, G., Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Khurana, S., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement", Interspeech, DOI: doi: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2025-2335, August 2025, pp. 2360-2364.
    BibTeX TR2025-119 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yang2025aug,
    • author = {Yang, Haici and Wichern, Gordon and Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Khurana, Sameer and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Investigating Continuous Autoregressive Generative Speech Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {2360--2364},
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {ISCA},
    • doi = {doi: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-2335},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-119}
    • }
  •  Hu, Y., Di Cairano, S., Berntorp, K., "Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-118 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hu2025aug,
    • author = {Hu, Yingjie and {Di Cairano}, Stefano and Berntorp, Karl},
    • title = {{Optimal Measurement Projection in GNSS-RTK Factor Graph Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-118}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Aihara2025aug,
    • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08399}
    • }
  •  Deshpande, V.M., Vinod, A.P., "Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), DOI: 10.1109/​CCTA53793.2025.11151521, August 2025, pp. 673-680.
    BibTeX TR2025-117 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deshpande2025aug,
    • author = {Deshpande, Vedang M. and Vinod, Abraham P.},
    • title = {{Dynamic Sensor Scheduling for Spatio-temporal Monitoring of Water Bodies}},
    • booktitle = {2025 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {673--680},
    • month = aug,
    • doi = {10.1109/CCTA53793.2025.11151521},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-117}
    • }
  •  Steinmetz, C., Uhle, C., Everardo, F., Mitcheltree, C., McElveen, J.K., Jot, J.-M., Wichern, G., "Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, August 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-116 PDF
    • @article{Steinmetz2025aug,
    • author = {Steinmetz, Christian and Uhle, Christian and Everardo, Flavio and Mitcheltree, Christopher and McElveen, J. Keith and Jot, Jean-Marc and Wichern, Gordon},
    • title = {{Audio Signal Processing in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Challenges and Directions}},
    • journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-116}
    • }
  •  Shirai, Y., Ota, K., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., "Learning Pivoting Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations", arXiv, August 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Shirai2025aug,
    • author = {Shirai, Yuki and Ota, Kei and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{Learning Pivoting Manipulation with Force and Vision Feedback Using Optimization-based Demonstrations}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2508.01082}
    • }
  •  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 Product QA Agents", ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM), Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord, Eds., July 2025, pp. 705-727.
    BibTeX TR2025-114 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lewis2025jul2,
    • 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 Product QA Agents}},
    • booktitle = {ACL 2025 workshop on Generation, Evaluation \& Metrics (GEM)},
    • year = 2025,
    • editor = {Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord},
    • pages = {705--727},
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
    • isbn = {979-8-89176-261-9},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-114}
    • }
  •  Ye, Z.-J., Sun, H., Guo, J., Wang, Y., Mohsenian-Rad, H., "Phase Identification in Wye-Connected and Delta-Connected Loads Under High PV Penetration", IEEE PES GM 2025, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-113 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ye2025jul,
    • author = {Ye, Zong-Jhen and Sun, Hongbo and Guo, Jianlin and Wang, Ye and Mohsenian-Rad, Hamed},
    • title = {{Phase Identification in Wye-Connected and Delta-Connected Loads Under High PV Penetration}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE PES GM 2025},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-113}
    • }
  •  Cornell, S., Boeddeker, C., Park, T., Huang, H., Raj, D., Wiesner, M., Masuyama, Y., Chang, X., Wang, Z.-Q., Squartini, S., Garcia, P., Watanabe, S., "Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Cornell2025jul,
    • author = {Cornell, Samuele and Boeddeker, Christoph and Park, Taejin and Huang, He and Raj, Desh and Wiesner, Matthew and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chang, Xuankai and Wang, Zhong-Qiu and Squartini, Stefano and Garcia, Paola and Watanabe, Shinji},
    • title = {{Recent Trends in Distant Conversational Speech Recognition: A Review of CHiME-7 and 8 DASR Challenges}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18161}
    • }
  •  Kojima, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Photonics × Machine Learning", IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting, DOI: 10.1109/​SUM65312.2025.11121763, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-110 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kojima2025jul,
    • author = {Kojima, Keisuke and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Photonics × Machine Learning}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/SUM65312.2025.11121763},
    • issn = {2376-8614},
    • isbn = {979-8-3315-0903-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-110}
    • }
  •  Nikovski, D.N., "Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms", 11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-108 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nikovski2025jul,
    • author = {Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{Disentangled Object-Centric Configuration Representation Learning for Articulated Robot Arms}},
    • booktitle = {11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies CoDIT'25},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-108}
    • }
  •  Almudévar, A., Hernández-Lobato, J.M., Khurana, S., Marxer, R., Ortega, A., "Aligning Multimodal Representations through an Information Bottleneck", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-109 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Almudévar2025jul,
    • author = {Almudévar, Antonio and Hernández-Lobato, José, M and Khurana, Sameer and Marxer, Ricard and Ortega, Alfonso},
    • title = {{Aligning Multimodal Representations through an Information Bottleneck}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-109}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Mansour, H., Brand, M., "AWP: Activation-Aware Weight Pruning and Quantization with Projected Gradient Descent", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-111 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Liu2025jul,
    • author = {{{Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Mansour, Hassan and Brand, Matthew}}},
    • title = {{{AWP: Activation-Aware Weight Pruning and Quantization with Projected Gradient Descent}}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-111}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "u-MoE: Test-Time Pruning as Micro-Grained Mixture-of-Experts", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-112 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2025jul,
    • author = {{{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye}}},
    • title = {{{u-MoE: Test-Time Pruning as Micro-Grained Mixture-of-Experts}}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) Workshop},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-112}
    • }
  •  Qiao, H., Miyawaki, K., Nishio, J., Laughman, C.R., "Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems", International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-107 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Qiao2025jul,
    • author = {Qiao, Hongtao and Miyawaki, Kosuke and Nishio, Jun and Laughman, Christopher R.},
    • title = {{Transient Simulation of Refrigerant and Oil Flow Distribution in Air Source Heat Pump Systems}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Compressor and Refrigeration},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-107}
    • }