Publications

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  •  Cherian, A., Lohit, S., Peng, K.-C., "WISE: Weighted Iterative Society-of-Experts for Multimodal Multi-Agent Debate with Probabilistic Consensus", ICML SCALE AI Workshop, June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-083 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2026jun,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Lohit, Suhas and Peng, Kuan-Chuan},
    • title = {{WISE: Weighted Iterative Society-of-Experts for Multimodal Multi-Agent Debate with Probabilistic Consensus}},
    • booktitle = {ICML SCALE AI Workshop},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-083}
    • }
  •  Zhou, Q., Gan, C., Cherian, A., "LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-081 PDF Video Software
    • @inproceedings{Zhou2026jun,
    • author = {Zhou, Qinhong and Gan, Chuang and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{LLawCo: Learning Laws of Cooperation for Modeling Embodied Multi-Agent Behavior}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-081}
    • }
  •  Li, D., Zhang, J., Egger, B., Chatterjee, M., Lohit, S., Marks, T.K., Cherian, A., "AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial Objects", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2026, pp. 17326-17335.
    BibTeX TR2026-076 PDF Video Data Software
    • @inproceedings{Li2026jun,
    • author = {Li, Danrui and Zhang, Jiahao and Egger, Bernhard and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Lohit, Suhas and Marks, Tim K. and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{AssemblyBench: Physics-Aware Assembly of Complex Industrial Objects}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {17326--17335},
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-076}
    • }
  •  Mumcu, F., Jones, M.J., Cherian, A., Yilmaz, Y., "Is Video Anomaly Detection Misframed? Evidence from LLM-Based and Multi-Scene Models", arXiv, May 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Mumcu2026may,
    • author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Jones, Michael J. and Cherian, Anoop and Yilmaz, Yasin},
    • title = {{Is Video Anomaly Detection Misframed? Evidence from LLM-Based and Multi-Scene Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.12725}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "LLMPhy: Parameter-Identifiable Physical Reasoning Combining Large Language Models and Physics Engines", International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-052 PDF Data Software
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2026may,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{LLMPhy: Parameter-Identifiable Physical Reasoning Combining Large Language Models and Physics Engines}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-052}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2026, C. Vondrick and B. Hariharan and C. Raffel and L. Pinto and D. Yang and A. Faust, Eds., April 2026, pp. 70072-70141.
    BibTeX TR2026-045 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2026apr2,
    • author = {Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding},
    • title = {{SpinBench: 3D Rotation as a Lens on Spatial Reasoning in VLMs}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Learning Representations},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {C. Vondrick and B. Hariharan and C. Raffel and L. Pinto and D. Yang and A. Faust},
    • pages = {70072--70141},
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-045}
    • }
  •  Kogashi, K., Cherian, A., Kuo, M.-Y.J., "MMHOI: Modeling Complex 3D Multi-Human Multi-Object Interactions", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), March 2026, pp. 1512-1521.
    BibTeX TR2026-029 PDF Video Data
    • @inproceedings{Kogashi2026mar,
    • author = {Kogashi, Kaen and Cherian, Anoop and Kuo, Meng-Yu Jennifer},
    • title = {{MMHOI: Modeling Complex 3D Multi-Human Multi-Object Interactions}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    • year = 2026,
    • pages = {1512--1521},
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-029}
    • }
  •  Mumcu, F., Jones, M.J., Yilmaz, Y., Cherian, A., "Leveraging Multimodal LLM Descriptions of Activity for Explainable Semi-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection", Transactions on Machine Learning Research, February 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-027 PDF
    • @article{Mumcu2026feb2,
    • author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Jones, Michael J. and Yilmaz, Yasin and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{Leveraging Multimodal LLM Descriptions of Activity for Explainable Semi-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection}},
    • journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-027}
    • }
  •  Mumcu, F., Bekit, L., Jones, M.J., Cherian, A., Yilmaz, Y., "Agentic AI-Empowered Dynamic Survey Framework", arXiv, February 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Mumcu2026feb,
    • author = {Mumcu, Furkan and Bekit, Lokman and Jones, Michael J. and Cherian, Anoop and Yilmaz, Yasin},
    • title = {{Agentic AI-Empowered Dynamic Survey Framework}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.04071}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Y., Corcodel, R., Hori, C., Cherian, A., Zhao, D., "AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop, December 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-168 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025dec2,
    • author = {{{Zhang, Yuyou and Corcodel, Radu and Hori, Chiori and Cherian, Anoop and Zhao, Ding}}},
    • title = {{{AxisBench: What Can Go Wrong in VLMs’ Spatial Reasoning?}}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-168}
    • }
  •  Zhang, J., Cherian, A., Rodriguez, C., Deng, W., Gould, S., "Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), September 2025, pp. 6304-6314.
    BibTeX TR2025-139 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025sep,
    • author = {Zhang, Jiahao and Cherian, Anoop and Rodriguez, Cristian and Deng, Weijian and Gould, Stephen},
    • title = {{Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams}},
    • booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {6304--6314},
    • month = sep,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-139}
    • }
  •  Ni, Y., Wen, S., Koniusz, P., Cherian, A., "Noise Consistency Regularization for Improved Subject-Driven Image Synthesis", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR), June 2025, pp. 3116-3126.
    BibTeX TR2025-073 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ni2025jun,
    • author = {Ni, Yao and Wen, Song and Koniusz, Piotr and Cherian, Anoop},
    • title = {{Noise Consistency Regularization for Improved Subject-Driven Image Synthesis}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPR)},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {3116--3126},
    • month = jun,
    • publisher = {CVF},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-073}
    • }
  •  Singh, A., Jones, M.J., Peng, K.-C., Chatterjee, M., Cherian, A., Learned-Miller, E., "Improving Open-World Object Localization by Discovering Background", CVPR Workshop on Domain Generalization: Evolution, Breakthroughs and Future Horizon, May 2025, pp. 6449-6458.
    BibTeX TR2025-058 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Singh2025may,
    • author = {Singh, Ashish and Jones, Michael J. and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Chatterjee, Moitreya and Cherian, Anoop and Learned-Miller, Erik},
    • title = {{Improving Open-World Object Localization by Discovering Background}},
    • booktitle = {CVPR Workshop on Domain Generalization: Evolution, Breakthroughs and Future Horizon},
    • year = 2025,
    • pages = {6449--6458},
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-058}
    • }
  •  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, DOI: 10.1109/​WACVW65960.2025.00122, February 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-016 PDF Data
    • @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,
    • doi = {10.1109/WACVW65960.2025.00122},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-016}
    • }
  •  He, Y., Shin, S., Cherian, A., Trigoni, N., Markham, A., "SoundLoc3D: Invisible 3D Sound Source Localization and Classification Using a Multimodal RGB-D Acoustic Camera", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), December 2024, pp. 5408-5418.
    BibTeX TR2025-003 PDF
    • @inproceedings{He2024dec2,
    • author = {He, Yuhang and Shin, Sangyun and Cherian, Anoop and Trigoni, Niki and Markham, Andrew},
    • title = {{SoundLoc3D: Invisible 3D Sound Source Localization and Classification Using a Multimodal RGB-D Acoustic Camera}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {5408--5418},
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {CVF},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-003}
    • }
  •  Zhang, J., Zhang, F., Rodriguez, C., Ben-Shabat, I., Cherian, A., Gould, S., "Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos", IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), December 2024, pp. 8090-8100.
    BibTeX TR2025-002 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2024dec,
    • author = {Zhang, Jiahao and Zhang, Frederic and Rodriguez, Cristian and Ben-Shabat, Itzik and Cherian, Anoop and Gould, Stephen},
    • title = {{Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {8090--8100},
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {CVF},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-002}
    • }
  •  Zhang, J., Cherian, A., Rodriguez, C., Deng, W., Gould, S., "Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams", arXiv, November 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Zhang2024nov,
    • author = {Zhang, Jiahao and Cherian, Anoop and Rodriguez, Cristian and Deng, Weijian and Gould, Stephen},
    • title = {{Manual-PA: Learning 3D Part Assembly from Instruction Diagrams}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.18011}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Corcodel, R., Jain, S., Romeres, D., "LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models", arXiv, November 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Cherian2024oct,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Corcodel, Radu and Jain, Siddarth and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{LLMPhy: Complex Physical Reasoning Using Large Language Models and World Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08027}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Peng, K.-C., Lohit, S., Matthiesen, J., Smith, K., Tenenbaum, J.B., "Evaluating Large Vision-and-Language Models on Children’s Mathematical Olympiads", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), November 2024, pp. 15779-15800.
    BibTeX TR2024-160 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2024nov,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lohit, Suhas and Matthiesen, Joanna and Smith, Kevin and Tenenbaum, Joshua B.},
    • title = {{Evaluating Large Vision-and-Language Models on Children’s Mathematical Olympiads}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {15779--15800},
    • month = nov,
    • publisher = {NeurIPS Proceedings},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-160}
    • }
  •  Cherian, A., Jain, S., Marks, T.K., "Few-shot Transparent Instance Segmentation for Bin Picking", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2024, pp. 5009-5016.
    BibTeX TR2024-127 PDF Video
    • @inproceedings{Cherian2024sep,
    • author = {Cherian, Anoop and Jain, Siddarth and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{Few-shot Transparent Instance Segmentation for Bin Picking}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {5009--5016},
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-127}
    • }
  •  Yin, J., Luo, A., Du, Y., Cherian, A., Marks, T.K., Le Roux, J., Gan, C., "Disentangled Acoustic Fields For Multimodal Physical Scene Understanding", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2024, pp. 557-564.
    BibTeX TR2024-125 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yin2024sep,
    • author = {Yin, Jie and Luo, Andrew and Du, Yilun and Cherian, Anoop and Marks, Tim K. and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Gan, Chuang},
    • title = {{Disentangled Acoustic Fields For Multimodal Physical Scene Understanding}},
    • booktitle = {2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {557--564},
    • month = sep,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-125}
    • }
  •  Zhang, J., Zhang, F., Rodriguez, C., Ben-Shabat, I., Cherian, A., Gould, S., "Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Zhang2024jul4,
    • author = {Zhang, Jiahao and Zhang, Frederic and Rodriguez, Cristian and Ben-Shabat, Itzik and Cherian, Anoop and Gould, Stephen},
    • title = {{Temporally Grounding Instructional Diagrams in Unconstrained Videos}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12066}
    • }
  •  Ni, H., Egger, B., Lohit, S., Cherian, A., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Huang, S.X., Marks, T.K., "TI2V-Zero: Zero-Shot Image Conditioning for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2024, pp. 9015-9025.
    BibTeX TR2024-059 PDF Video Software Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Ni2024jun,
    • author = {Ni, Haomiao and Egger, Bernhard and Lohit, Suhas and Cherian, Anoop and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Huang, Sharon X. and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{TI2V-Zero: Zero-Shot Image Conditioning for Text-to-Video Diffusion Models}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {9015--9025},
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-059}
    • }
  •  He, Y., Cherian, A., Wichern, G., Markham, A., "Deep Neural Room Acoustics Primitive", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), June 2024, pp. 17842-17857.
    BibTeX TR2024-072 PDF
    • @inproceedings{He2024jun,
    • author = {He, Yuhang and Cherian, Anoop and Wichern, Gordon and Markham, Andrew},
    • title = {{Deep Neural Room Acoustics Primitive}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {17842--17857},
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-072}
    • }
  •  Yang, Z., Liu, J., Chen, P., Cherian, A., Marks, T.K., Le Roux, J., Gan, C., "RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), April 2024, pp. 16251-16261.
    BibTeX TR2024-043 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Yang2024apr,
    • author = {Yang, Zeyuan and Liu, Jiageng and Chen, Peihao and Cherian, Anoop and Marks, Tim K. and {Le Roux}, Jonathan and Gan, Chuang},
    • title = {{RILA: Reflective and Imaginative Language Agent for Zero-Shot Semantic Audio-Visual Navigation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {16251--16261},
    • month = apr,
    • publisher = {CVF},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-043}
    • }