Publications

3,887 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  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, August 2025.
    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,
    • month = aug,
    • 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, August 2025.
    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,
    • month = aug,
    • 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, August 2025.
    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,
    • month = aug,
    • 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), August 2025.
    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 = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = aug,
    • 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), July 2025.
    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,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-114}
    • }
  •  Kato, S., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., Fujihashi, T., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "Multi-Band Wi-Fi Neural Dynamic Fusion", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-115 PDF
    • @article{Kato2025jul,
    • author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Fujihashi, Takuya and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{Multi-Band Wi-Fi Neural Dynamic Fusion}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-115}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Yang, C.-A., Peng, K.-C., Yeh, R., "Toward Long-Tailed Online Anomaly Detection through Class-Agnostic Concepts", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv Data
    • @article{Yang2025jul,
    • author = {Yang, Chiao-An and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Yeh, Raymond},
    • title = {{Toward Long-Tailed Online Anomaly Detection through Class-Agnostic Concepts}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16946}
    • }
  •  Kojima, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Photonics × Machine Learning", IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting, 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,
    • 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}
    • }
  •  Paissan, F., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Saijo, K., Le Roux, J., "FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Paissan2025jul,
    • author = {Paissan, Francesco and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Saijo, Kohei and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{FasTUSS: Faster Task-Aware Unified Source Separation}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2507.11435}
    • }
  •  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
    • @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
    • @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}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields", arXiv, July 2025.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Masuyama2025jul,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Physics-Informed Direction-Aware Neural Acoustic Fields}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06826}
    • }
  •  Zhang, Q., Avraamidou, S., Paulson, J.A., Thakkar, V., Wang, Z., Chiang, L., Braun, B., Rathi, T., Chakrabarty, A., Sorouifar, F., Tang, W.-T., Guertin, F., Munoz, P., Sampat, A., "Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-106 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul2,
    • author = {Zhang, Qi and Avraamidou, Styliani and Paulson, Joel A. and Thakkar, Vyom and Wang, Zhenyu and Chiang, Leo and Braun, Birgit and Rathi, Tushar and Chakrabarty, Ankush and Sorouifar, Farshud and Tang, Wei-Ting and Guertin, France and Munoz, Paola and Sampat, Apoorva},
    • title = {{Navigating the Trade-offs and Synergies of Economic and Environmental Sustainability Using Process Systems Engineering}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-106}
    • }
  •  Zhang, X., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., Basar, T., "Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start", American Control Conference (ACC), July 2025.
    BibTeX TR2025-105 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2025jul,
    • author = {Zhang, Xiangyuan and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine and Basar, Tamer},
    • title = {{Policy Optimization for PDE Control with a Warm Start}},
    • booktitle = {American Control Conference (ACC)},
    • year = 2025,
    • month = jul,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-105}
    • }