Publications

4,099 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Deng, Y., Nikovski, D.N., "ORIGAMI: Object Representation Inferred Geometrically for Articulated ManIpulation", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-141 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Deng2026sep,
    • author = {Deng, Yunfu and Nikovski, Daniel N.},
    • title = {{ORIGAMI: Object Representation Inferred Geometrically for Articulated ManIpulation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-141}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  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.
    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,
    • month = sep,
    • 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.
    BibTeX TR2026-139 PDF
    • @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,
    • month = sep,
    • 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, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-135 PDF
    • @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,
    • month = sep,
    • 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}
    • }
  •  Qiao, H., Laughman, C.R., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., "Closed-Form Local Stability of a Pressure-Phase-Coordinate Control-Volume Model", Asian Modelica Conference, September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-134 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Qiao2026sep,
    • author = {Qiao, Hongtao and Laughman, Christopher R. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A.},
    • title = {{Closed-Form Local Stability of a Pressure-Phase-Coordinate Control-Volume Model}},
    • booktitle = {Asian Modelica Conference},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-134}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., "Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-131 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026sep2,
    • author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Near-Lower-Bound Approximate Quantum State Preparation with Hardware-Efficient Circuits}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-131}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Koike-Akino, T., Mitchell, D., "Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-130 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep2,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Mitchell, David}},
    • title = {{Reinforcement-Learning-Guided Multi-Branch Decoding of Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-130}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-133 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep4,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Net-Voltage Screening of Bivariate-Bicycle Tanner-Graph Covers}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-133}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-129 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Base-Preserving APM/Voltage Lifts of Bivariate Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-129}
    • }
  •  Nourozi, V., Mitchell, D., Koike-Akino, T., "Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes", IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-132 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Nourozi2026sep3,
    • author = {{Nourozi, Vahid and Mitchell, David and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Q-Learning Base Search Voltage-Labeled Covers for Weight-Six Bivariate-Bicycle Quantum LDPC Codes}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-132}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Blaykhman, V., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Vinokur, G.V., "Vibe Patenting: Evaluating LLM Judges for Professional Patent-Drafting Agents", arXiv, September 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Koike-Akino2026sep,
    • author = {{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Blaykhman, Vlad and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Vinokur, Gennadiy V.}},
    • title = {{Vibe Patenting: Evaluating LLM Judges for Professional Patent-Drafting Agents}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13422}
    • }
  •  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), September 2026.
    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,
    • month = sep,
    • 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
    • @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}
    • }
  •  Benninger, M., Wang, B., Inoue, H., "Model Parameter Identification for Induction Motor Fault Diagnosis", International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-122 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Benninger2026sep,
    • author = {Benninger, Moritz and Wang, Bingnan and Inoue, Hiroshi},
    • title = {{Model Parameter Identification for Induction Motor Fault Diagnosis}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-122}
    • }
  •  Patkar, A., Wang, Y., Goldsmith, A., Liu, D., Youcef-Toumi, K., "Compressed-Sensing Approach to Magnetic-Flux Map Acquisition with Experimental Validation", International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM), September 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-120 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Patkar2026sep,
    • author = {Patkar, Abhishek and Wang, Yebin and Goldsmith, Abraham and Liu, Dehong and Youcef-Toumi, Kamal},
    • title = {{Compressed-Sensing Approach to Magnetic-Flux Map Acquisition with Experimental Validation}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-120}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Yang, Y., Romeres, D., Hori, C., Bertasius, G., Szafir, D., Jain, S., "Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies", arXiv, September 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Yang2026sep,
    • author = {Yang, Yue and Romeres, Diego and Hori, Chiori and Bertasius, Gedas and Szafir, Daniel and Jain, Siddarth},
    • title = {{Sensing Which Modality Matters: Evidence-Gated Regularization for Robust VLA Policies}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03142}
    • }