Publications

3,993 major publications by members of the MERL staff.


  •  Tandi, K., Ali, W.H., Rapp, J., Mansour, H., "Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-038 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Tandi2026may,
    • author = {Tandi, Kevin and Ali, Wael H. and Rapp, Joshua and Mansour, Hassan},
    • title = {{Single View Camera-Based Dynamic Airflow Sensing}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-038}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Paissan, F., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-032 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Aihara2026may,
    • author = {Aihara, Ryo and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Paissan, Francesco and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{SUNAC: Source-aware Unified Neural Audio Codec}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-032}
    • }
  •  Kato, S., Wang, P., Fujihashi, T., Markham, A., "Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-040 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Kato2026may,
    • author = {Kato, Sorachi and Wang, Pu and Fujihashi, Takuya and Markham, Andrew},
    • title = {{Heatmap-to-SMPL Multi-View Radar Transformer for Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-040}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Hori, C., Le Roux, J., "Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-033 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and Hori, Chiori and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{Velocity Potential Neural Field for Efficient Ambisonics Impulse Response Modeling}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-033}
    • }
  •  Masuyama, Y., Saijo, K., Paissan, F., Han, J., Delcroix, M., Aihara, R., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-034 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Masuyama2026may2,
    • author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Saijo, Kohei and Paissan, Francesco and Han, Jiangyu and Delcroix, Marc and Aihara, Ryo and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
    • title = {{FlexIO: Flexible Single- and Multi-Channel Speech Separation and Enhancement}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-034}
    • }
  •  Takahashi, R., Mansour, H., Boufounos, P.T., "DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-039 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Takahashi2026may,
    • author = {Takahashi, Ryuhei and Mansour, Hassan and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{DUAL-REGULARIZED ITERATIVE ADAPTIVE APPROACH FOR DOA SPECTRUM RECONSTRUCTION IN LIMITED ANGLE SECTOR}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-039}
    • }
  •  Zhang, H., Ma, Y., Kitichotkul, R., Rapp, J., Boufounos, P.T., "ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-041 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Zhang2026may,
    • author = {Zhang, Haoyu and Ma, Yanting and Kitichotkul, Ruangrawee and Rapp, Joshua and Boufounos, Petros T.},
    • title = {{ProxiCBO: A Consensus-based Method for Composite Optimization}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-041}
    • }
  •  Aihara, R., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Exploring Disentangled Neural Speech Codecs from Self-Supervised Representations", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), May 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-035 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Aihara2026may2,
    • 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}},
    • booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW)},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = may,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-035}
    • }
  •  Ryo, H., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Parsons, K., Hato, J., "Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models", International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-036 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Ryo2026mar,
    • author = {Ryo, Hase and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Parsons, Kieran and Hato, Jumpei},
    • title = {{Evaluating Security Policy Compliance in Infrastructure as Code Generated by Large Language Models}},
    • booktitle = {International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-036}
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Chen, X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Wang, P., Brand, M., "LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor, Eds., DOI: 10.1609/​aaai.v40i27.39425, March 2026, vol. 40, pp. 22644-22652.
    BibTeX TR2026-018 PDF Video Presentation
    • @inproceedings{Koike-Akino2026jan,
    • author = {{{Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Chen, Xiangyu and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew}}},
    • title = {{{LatentLLM: Activation-Aware Transform to Multi-Head Latent Attention}}},
    • booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Sven Koenig, Chad Jenkins, Matthew E. Taylor},
    • volume = 40,
    • number = 27,
    • pages = {22644--22652},
    • month = jan,
    • publisher = {AAAI Press},
    • doi = {10.1609/aaai.v40i27.39425},
    • issn = {2374-3468},
    • isbn = {978-1-57735-906-7},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-018}
    • }
  •  Shenoy, V., Lohit, S., Mansour, H., Chellappa, R., Marks, T.K., "Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models", IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-031 PDF
    • @article{Shenoy2026mar,
    • author = {Shenoy, Vineet and Lohit, Suhas and Mansour, Hassan and Chellappa, Rama and Marks, Tim K.},
    • title = {{Recovering Pulse Waves from Video Using Deep Unrolling and Deep Equilibrium Models}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Image Processing},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-031}
    • }
  •  Khattar, V., Rashid, M.R.U., Choudhury, M., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Jin, M., Wang, Y., "Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Khattar2026mar,
    • author = {{Khattar, Vanshaj and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Choudhury, Moumita and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Jin, Ming and Wang, Ye}},
    • title = {{Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15417}
    • }
  •  Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Wang2026mar2,
    • author = {{Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki}},
    • title = {{Directional Embedding Smoothing for Robust Vision Language Models}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15259}
    • }
  •  Yamamoto, T., Sakamoto, Y., Sun, S., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, Y., Wang, B., "Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest", IEEJ, March 2026.
    BibTeX
    • @inproceedings{Yamamoto2026mar,
    • author = {Yamamoto, Tatsuya and Sakamoto, Yusuke and Sun, Siyuan and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Ye and Wang, Bingnan},
    • title = {{Presentation of Team MELSUR's Achievements in the COMPUMAG 2025 Galileo Ferraris Contest}},
    • booktitle = {IEEJ},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar
    • }
  •  Koike-Akino, T., Liu, J., Wang, Y., "TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference On The Fly", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Koike-Akino2026mar,
    • author = {Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye},
    • title = {{TTQ: Activation-Aware Test-Time Quantization to Accelerate LLM Inference On The Fly}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19296}
    • }
  •  Sohail, M.A., Koike-Akino, T., "Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Sohail2026mar,
    • author = {Sohail, Mohammad A and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
    • title = {{Geo-ADAPT-VQE: Quantum Information Metric-Aware Circuit Optimization for Quantum Chemistry Mohammad Aamir Sohail, Toshiaki Koike-Akino}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10325}
    • }
  •  Wang, Z., Jha, D.K., Qureshi, A.H., Romeres, D., "PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Wang2026mar,
    • author = {Wang, Zixing and Jha, Devesh K. and Qureshi, Ahmed H. and Romeres, Diego},
    • title = {{PPGuide: Steering Diffusion Policies with Performance Predictive Guidance}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10980}
    • }
  •  Park, Y.-J., Germain, F.G., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Koike-Akino, T., Wichern, G., Azizan, N., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models", Energy and Buildings, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-030 PDF
    • @article{Park2026mar,
    • author = {Park, Young-Jin and Germain, François G and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wichern, Gordon and Azizan, Navid and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
    • title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting for Building Energy Systems using Time-Series Foundation Models}},
    • journal = {Energy and Buildings},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-030}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }
  •  Lualdi, C., Rapp, J., Kwiat, P., "Quantum-enhanced sensing of time-varying signals at the nanometer scale", SPIE Photonics West, Shahriar, S. M., Eds., DOI: 10.1117/​12.3079847, March 2026, vol. 13920, pp. 139200I.
    BibTeX TR2026-037 PDF
    • @inproceedings{Lualdi2026mar,
    • author = {Lualdi, Colin and Rapp, Joshua and Kwiat, Paul},
    • title = {{Quantum-enhanced sensing of time-varying signals at the nanometer scale}},
    • booktitle = {Proc. SPIE Quantum Sensing, Imaging, and Precision Metrology IV},
    • year = 2026,
    • editor = {Shahriar, S. M.},
    • volume = 13920,
    • pages = {139200I},
    • month = mar,
    • publisher = {SPIE},
    • doi = {10.1117/12.3079847},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-037}
    • }
  •  Schperberg, A., Wang, Y., Di Cairano, S., "Safe Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Combined Model and Learning-based Control", arXiv, March 2026.
    BibTeX arXiv
    • @article{Schperberg2026mar,
    • author = {Schperberg, Alexander and Wang, Yeping and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
    • title = {{Safe Whole-Body Loco-Manipulation via Combined Model and Learning-based Control}},
    • journal = {arXiv},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.02443}
    • }
  •  Gao, W., Wang, Y., Vamvoudakis, K., "Output-Feedback Learning-based Adaptive Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems", Automatica, March 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-028 PDF
    • @article{Gao2026mar,
    • author = {Gao, Weinan and Wang, Yebin and Vamvoudakis, Kyriakos},
    • title = {{Output-Feedback Learning-based Adaptive Optimal Control of Nonlinear Systems}},
    • journal = {Automatica},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = mar,
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-028}
    • }
  •  Hu, H., Liu, C., Li, N., Wang, Y., "Training Task Reasoning LLM Agents for Multi-turn Task Planning via Single-turn Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Control Systems Letters, DOI: 10.1109/​LCSYS.2025.3642767, Vol. 9, pp. 2879-2884, February 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-026 PDF
    • @article{Hu2026feb,
    • author = {Hu, Hanjiang and Liu, Changliu and Li, Na and Wang, Yebin},
    • title = {{Training Task Reasoning LLM Agents for Multi-turn Task Planning via Single-turn Reinforcement Learning}},
    • journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters},
    • year = 2026,
    • volume = 9,
    • pages = {2879--2884},
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2025.3642767},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-026}
    • }
  •  Qin, J., Sun, H., Yu, N., Guo, J., Wang, Y., Raghunathan, A., "Temporal Surrogate Lagrangian Decomposition for Operational Hosting Capacity Assessment In Unbalanced Power Distribution Systems", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, DOI: 10.1109/​TII.2025.3650721, February 2026.
    BibTeX TR2026-025 PDF
    • @article{Qin2026feb,
    • author = {Qin, Jingtao and Sun, Hongbo and Yu, Nanpeng and Guo, Jianlin and Wang, Ye and Raghunathan, Arvind},
    • title = {{Temporal Surrogate Lagrangian Decomposition for Operational Hosting Capacity Assessment In Unbalanced Power Distribution Systems}},
    • journal = {IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics},
    • year = 2026,
    • month = feb,
    • doi = {10.1109/TII.2025.3650721},
    • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-025}
    • }
  •  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}
    • }