Publications

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  •  Smedemark-Margulies, N., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Bicer, Y., Erdogmus, D., "Improving Subject Transfer in EEG Classification with Divergence Estimation", Journal of Neural Engineering, DOI: 10.1088/​1741-2552/​ad9777, Vol. 21, No. 6, April 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-044 PDF Software
    • @article{Smedemark-Margulies2025apr,
    • author = {Smedemark-Margulies, Niklas and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Bicer, Yunus and Erdogmus, Deniz},
    • title = {{Improving Subject Transfer in EEG Classification with Divergence Estimation}},
    • journal = {Journal of Neural Engineering},
    • year = 2025,
    • volume = 21,
    • number = 6,
    • month = apr,
    • doi = {10.1088/1741-2552/ad9777},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-044}
    • }
  •  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 QA Agents", arXiv, February 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Lewis2025feb,
    • 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 QA Agents}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2502.19545}
    • }
  •  Ryo, H., Rashid, M.R.U., Lewis, A., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Smoothed Embeddings for Robust Language Models", Safe Generative AI Workshop at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-170 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Ryo2024dec,
    • author = {Ryo, Hase and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Lewis, Ashley and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Smoothed Embeddings for Robust Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {Safe Generative AI Workshop at Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = dec,
    • publisher = {OpenReview},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-170}
    • }
  •  Rapp, J., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., "Multi-layered Surface Estimation for Low-cost Optical Coherence Tomography", IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, DOI: 10.1109/​TCI.2024.3497602, Vol. 10, pp. 1706-1721, December 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-164 PDF
    • @article{Rapp2024dec,
    • author = {Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T. and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{Multi-layered Surface Estimation for Low-cost Optical Coherence Tomography}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging},
    • year = 2024,
    • volume = 10,
    • pages = {1706--1721},
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/TCI.2024.3497602},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-164}
    • }
  •  Nagai, Y., Guo, J., Rolfe, B.A., Sumi, T., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., "IEEE 802.19.3a Standardization: Updating Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Recommendations", IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), November 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-161 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nagai2024nov,
    • author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Rolfe, Benjamin A. and Sumi, Takenori and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{IEEE 802.19.3a Standardization: Updating Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Recommendations}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = nov,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-161}
    • }
  •  Li, Z., Lowy, A., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Malin, B., Wang, Y., "Analyzing Inference Privacy Risks Through Gradients In Machine Learning", ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), DOI: 10.1145/​3658644.3690304, October 2024, pp. 3466-3480.
    BibTeX TR2024-141 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Li2024oct,
    • author = {Li, Zhuohang and Lowy, Andrew and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Malin, Bradley and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Analyzing Inference Privacy Risks Through Gradients In Machine Learning}},
    • booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {3466--3480},
    • month = oct,
    • publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
    • doi = {10.1145/3658644.3690304},
    • isbn = {9798400706363},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-141}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Lowy, A., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models", International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-104 PDF Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Liu2024jul,
    • author = {Liu, Jing and Lowy, Andrew and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Efficient Differentially Private Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshop (Next Generation of AI Safety)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-104}
    • }
  •  Hase, R., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., "Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness", arXiv, July 2024.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Hase2024jul,
    • author = {Hase, Ryo and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{Variational Randomized Smoothing for Sample-Wise Adversarial Robustness}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.11844}
    • }
  •  Sun, Y., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., "Improve Federated Learning Stability for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction", International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (UCIFN), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-094 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Sun2024jul,
    • author = {Sun, Youbang and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa},
    • title = {{Improve Federated Learning Stability for Vehicle Trajectory Prediction}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (UCIFN)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-094}
    • }
  •  Nagai, Y., Guo, J., Rolfe, B.A., Yano, K., Sumi, T., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., Wang, P., "Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Study for OFDM Systems in IEEE 802.19.3a", Workshop on Smart Radio for IoT Era (SRIoT), July 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-090 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nagai2024jul,
    • author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Rolfe, Benjamin A. and Yano, Kazuto and Sumi, Takenori and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Wang, Pu},
    • title = {{Sub-1 GHz Band Wireless Coexistence Study for OFDM Systems in IEEE 802.19.3a}},
    • booktitle = {Workshop on Smart Radio for IoT Era (SRIoT)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-090}
    • }
  •  Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Sakaguchi, N., Tsuchida, H., Wang, P., Orlik, P.V., "Multipath TCP Over Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-071 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Guo2024jun,
    • author = {Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Tsuchida, Hikaru and Wang, Pu and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{Multipath TCP Over Multi-Hop Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-071}
    • }
  •  Wang, Z., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Orlik, P.V., "Learning Based Routing Link Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-069 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2024jun3,
    • author = {Wang, Zhiyang and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{Learning Based Routing Link Scheduling in Heterogeneous Wireless IoT Networks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-069}
    • }
  •  Nagai, Y., Guo, J., Sumi, T., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., Rolfe, B.A., Wang, P., "Improve IEEE 802.15.4 Network Reliability by Suspendable CSMA/CA", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-039 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nagai2024apr,
    • author = {Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Sumi, Takenori and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Rolfe, Benjamin A. and Wang, Pu},
    • title = {{Improve IEEE 802.15.4 Network Reliability by Suspendable CSMA/CA}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = apr,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-039}
    • }
  •  Fernandez-Menduina, S., Rapp, J., Mansour, H., Greiff, M., Parsons, K., "Tracking Beyond the Unambiguous Range with Modulo Single-Photon Lidar", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/​ICASSP48485.2024.10446835, March 2024, pp. 6-10.
    BibTeX TR2024-021 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Fernandez-Menduina2024mar,
    • author = {Fernandez-Menduina, Samuel and Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan and Greiff, Marcus and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{Tracking Beyond the Unambiguous Range with Modulo Single-Photon Lidar}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2024,
    • pages = {6--10},
    • month = mar,
    • doi = {10.1109/ICASSP48485.2024.10446835},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-021}
    • }
  •  Lowy, A., Li, Z., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Why Does Differential Privacy with Large ε Defend Against Practical Membership Inference Attacks?", AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence, February 2024.
    BibTeX TR2024-009 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lowy2024feb2,
    • author = {Lowy, Andrew and Li, Zhuohang and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Why Does Differential Privacy with Large ε Defend Against Practical Membership Inference Attacks?}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2024,
    • month = feb,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-009}
    • }
  •  Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Brand, M., Wang, Y., Parsons, K., "LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop, December 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-150 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Liu2023dec,
    • author = {Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew and Wang, Ye and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-150}
    • }
  •  Li, Z., Lowy, A., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Malin, B., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Exploring User-level Gradient Inversion with a Diffusion Prior", International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models in Conjunction with NeurIPS, December 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-149 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Li2023dec,
    • author = {Li, Zhuohang and Lowy, Andrew and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Malin, Bradley and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Exploring User-level Gradient Inversion with a Diffusion Prior}},
    • booktitle = {International Workshop on Federated Learning in the Age of Foundation Models in Conjunction with NeurIPS},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-149}
    • }
  •  Nuti, P., Kim, K.J., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., "RIS-Assisted Joint Preamble Detection and Localization", IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP), DOI: 10.1109/​CAMSAP58249.2023.10403493, December 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-142 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Nuti2023dec,
    • author = {Nuti, Pooja and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{RIS-Assisted Joint Preamble Detection and Localization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = dec,
    • doi = {10.1109/CAMSAP58249.2023.10403493},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-4453-0},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-142}
    • }
  •  Guo, J., Sumi, T., Kawashima, Y., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Orlik, P.V., "Minimizing Route Overlap for Priority Data Delivery in Next Generation IoT Networks", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-140 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Guo2023dec,
    • author = {Guo, Jianlin and Sumi, Takenori and Kawashima, Yuki and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{Minimizing Route Overlap for Priority Data Delivery in Next Generation IoT Networks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = dec,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-140}
    • }
  •  Ahmed, M.R., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "Joint Software-Hardware Design for Green AI", International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), DOI: 10.1109/​MWSCAS57524.2023.10405937, August 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-096 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ahmed2023aug,
    • author = {Ahmed, Md Rubel and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{Joint Software-Hardware Design for Green AI}},
    • booktitle = {International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/MWSCAS57524.2023.10405937},
    • issn = {1558-3899},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-0210-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-096}
    • }
  •  Ahmed, M.R., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "AutoHLS: Learning to Accelerate Design Space Exploration for HLS Designs", International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), DOI: 10.1109/​MWSCAS57524.2023.10405914, August 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-097 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ahmed2023aug2,
    • author = {Ahmed, Md Rubel and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{AutoHLS: Learning to Accelerate Design Space Exploration for HLS Designs}},
    • booktitle = {International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = aug,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/MWSCAS57524.2023.10405914},
    • issn = {1558-3899},
    • isbn = {979-8-3503-0210-3},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-097}
    • }
  •  Sakaguchi, N., Sumi, T., Nagai, Y., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., "MPTCP Evaluation for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks", International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, July 2023.
    BibTeX
    • @inproceedings{Sakaguchi2023jul,
    • author = {Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V.},
    • title = {{MPTCP Evaluation for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks}},
    • booktitle = {International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = jul
    • }
  •  Guo, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Parsons, K., Orlik, P.V., Shanmuga Sundaram, J.P., Sumi, T., Nagai, Y., "Rateless Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Networks", IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-073 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Guo2023jun,
    • author = {Guo, Jianlin and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Parsons, Kieran and Orlik, Philip V. and Shanmuga Sundaram, Jothi Prasanna and Sumi, Takenori and Nagai, Yukimasa},
    • title = {{Rateless Coding for Multi-Hop Broadcast Transmission in Wireless IoT Networks}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = jun,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-073}
    • }
  •  Wang, X., Kim, K.J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Parsons, K., "DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), DOI: 10.1109/​ICC45041.2023.10279563, May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-050 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Wang2023may,
    • author = {Wang, Xinda and Kim, Kyeong Jin and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{DeepEAD: Explainable Anomaly Detection from System Logs}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • publisher = {IEEE},
    • doi = {10.1109/ICC45041.2023.10279563},
    • issn = {1938-1883},
    • isbn = {978-1-5386-7462-8},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-050}
    • }
  •  Kim, K.J., Vinod, A.P., Guo, J., Deshpande, V.M., Parsons, K., "Spectrum Sharing-inspired Safe Motion Planning", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), May 2023.
    BibTeX TR2023-049 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kim2023may2,
    • author = {Kim, Kyeong Jin and Vinod, Abraham P. and Guo, Jianlin and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Parsons, Kieran},
    • title = {{Spectrum Sharing-inspired Safe Motion Planning}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
    • year = 2023,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-049}
    • }