Publications

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  •  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", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-148 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hu2026sep,
    • 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}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-148}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Wang, Y., Suzuki, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Test-Time Attention: Can Robots Better Follow Commands?", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IARL Workshop, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-142 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Liu2026sep,
    • author = {Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Suzuki, Kei and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Test-Time Attention: Can Robots Better Follow Commands?}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IARL Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-142}
    • }
  •  Shek, C.L., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Suzuki, K., Tokekar, P., Koike-Akino, T., "Read the Manual: Grounding Behavior Tree Synthesis for Multi-Machine Factory Operation", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-149 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Shek2026sep,
    • author = {Shek, Chak.Lam and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Suzuki, Kei and Tokekar, Pratap and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Read the Manual: Grounding Behavior Tree Synthesis for Multi-Machine Factory Operation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-149}
    • }
  •  Singh, H., Suzuki, K., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Cascante-Bonilla, P., Koike-Akino, T., "DYNAMIT: Dynamic Zero-Shot Manipulation via Instruction-Grounded Visual Tracking and Interception in Industrial Conveyor Environments", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-146 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Singh2026sep,
    • author = {Singh, Harsh and Suzuki, Kei and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Cascante-Bonilla, Paola and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{DYNAMIT: Dynamic Zero-Shot Manipulation via Instruction-Grounded Visual Tracking and Interception in Industrial Conveyor Environments}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-146}
    • }
  •  Bhosale, S., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update", Interspeech, September 2026, pp. 2958-2962.
    BibTeX TR2026-140 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep2,
    • author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Echoes after Edits: Room Impulse Response Estimation for Geometry Update}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {2958--2962},
    • month = sep,
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-140}
    • }
  •  Bhosale, S., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Chatterjee, M., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Zhu, X., Le Roux, J., "Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction", Interspeech, September 2026, pp. 2963-2967.
    BibTeX TR2026-139 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Bhosale2026sep,
    • author = {Bhosale, Swapnil and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Zhu, Xiatian and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Dual-Geometry Manifolds for Few-shot RIR Prediction}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {2963--2967},
    • month = sep,
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-139}
    • }
  •  Boeddeker, C., Masuyama, Y., Richter, J., Edo, T., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation", Interspeech, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-137 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Boeddeker2026sep,
    • author = {Boeddeker, Christoph and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Speaker Identity as Sole Supervision for Speech Separation}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-137}
    • }
  •  Hori, C., Korekata, R., Kambara, M., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation", Interspeech, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-136 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Hori2026sep,
    • author = {{Hori, Chiori and Korekata, Ryosuke and Kambara, Motonari and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Romeres, Diego and Le Roux, Jonathan}},
    • title = {{Plan and Double-Check: Streaming Multimodal Q-Former for Online Robot Action Generation}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-136}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Edo, T., Bhosale, S., Le Roux, J., "HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field", Interspeech, DOI: 10.21437/​Interspeech.2026-1391, September 2026, pp. 696-701.
    BibTeX TR2026-135 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026sep2,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Edo, Takahiro and Bhosale, Swapnil and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{HRTF Personalization via Sim-to-Real Neural Field}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {696--701},
    • month = sep,
    • doi = {10.21437/Interspeech.2026-1391},
    • issn = {2958-1796},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-135}
    • }
  •  Wilkinghoff, K., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., Tan, Z.-H., "Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection", Interspeech, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-138 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wilkinghoff2026sep,
    • author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Tan, Zheng-Hua},
    • title = {{Mind the Gap: Detecting Cluster Exits for Robust Local Density-Based Score Normalization in Anomalous Sound Detection}},
    • booktitle = {Interspeech},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-138}
    • }
  •  Pandharipande, A., Wang, P., Hakobyan, G., "Radar Sensing in Industrial and Mobile Robotics: A Review", IEEE Sensors Journal, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-145 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Pandharipande2026sep,
    • author = {Pandharipande, Ashish and Wang, Pu and Hakobyan, Gor},
    • title = {{Radar Sensing in Industrial and Mobile Robotics: A Review}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Sensors Journal},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-145}
    • }
  •  Terada, T., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., "Deep-Unfolded Autofocus Imaging for Distributed MIMO Radar", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-128 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Terada2026sep,
    • author = {Terada, Tsubasa and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
    • title = {{Deep-Unfolded Autofocus Imaging for Distributed MIMO Radar}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-128}
    • }
  •  Mumcu, F., Bekit, L., Jones, M.J., Cherian, A., Yilmaz, Y., "Language Models in Video Anomaly Detection: A Dynamic Survey", IEEE Access, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-143 PDF
    • @article{Mumcu2026sep,
    • author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Bekit, Lokman and Jones, Michael J. and Cherian, Anoop and Yilmaz, Yasin},
    • title = {{Language Models in Video Anomaly Detection: A Dynamic Survey}},
    • journal = {IEEE Access},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-143}
    • }
  •  Yu, B.-Y., Peng, K.-C., Hsieh, J.-W., "LEAP-VLA: Latent-Enhanced Action Prototyping via Continuous Residual Latent Spaces for Vision-Language-Action Models", European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Favaro, P. and Kukelova, Z. and Maki, A. and Rohrbach, A. and Schindler, K. and Tombari, F., Eds., DOI: 10.1007/​978-3-032-37450-9_20, September 2026, vol. 17034, pp. 367–385.
    BibTeX TR2026-127 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yu2026sep,
    • author = {Yu, Bo-Yun and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Hsieh, Jun-Wei},
    • title = {{LEAP-VLA: Latent-Enhanced Action Prototyping via Continuous Residual Latent Spaces for Vision-Language-Action Models}},
    • booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Favaro, P. and Kukelova, Z. and Maki, A. and Rohrbach, A. and Schindler, K. and Tombari, F.},
    • volume = 17034,
    • pages = {367–385},
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {Springer},
    • doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-37450-9_20},
    • issn = {0302-9743},
    • isbn = {978-3-032-37449-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-127}
    • }
  •  Fujimura, T., Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Le Roux, J., "NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-124 PDF Software
    • @inproceedings{Fujimura2026sep,
    • author = {Fujimura, Takuya and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{NABEATs: Noise-Aware Audio Representation Learning}},
    • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-124}
    • }
  •  Lin, J., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Kim, M., Le Roux, J., "Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-125 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lin2026sep,
    • author = {Lin, Jackie and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and Kim, Minje and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Few-Shot Room Impulse Response Interpolation in Latent Domains}},
    • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-125}
    • }
  •  Mitsui, Y., Aihara, R., Saito, T., Masuyama, Y., Boeddeker, C., Richter, J., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-126 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Mitsui2026sep,
    • author = {Mitsui, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Saito, Tatsuhiko and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Boeddeker, Christoph and Richter, Julius and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Downstream-Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
    • booktitle = {International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-126}
    • }
  •  Su, H., Liu, D., Inoue, H., Wang, Y., "Interpretable Physics-Informed Multimodal Deep Learning for Eccentricity-Severity Estimation of Induction Machines", International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-121 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Su2026sep,
    • author = {Su, Hanqi and Liu, Dehong and Inoue, Hiroshi and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Interpretable Physics-Informed Multimodal Deep Learning for Eccentricity-Severity Estimation of Induction Machines}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-121}
    • }
  •  Sun, S., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Wang, B., "A BERT-Based Surrogate Model for Permanent Magnet Motor Cogging Torque Prediction", International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-123 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sun2026sep,
    • author = {{Sun, Siyuan and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Wang, Bingnan}},
    • title = {{A BERT-Based Surrogate Model for Permanent Magnet Motor Cogging Torque Prediction}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-123}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }