- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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.
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,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-029}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Khattar, V., Choudhury, M., Rashid, M.R.U., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Jin, M., Wang, Y., "Amplification Effects in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning: Safety and Reasoning Vulnerabilities", AAAI Workshop on Trust and Control in Agentic AI, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-020 PDF- @inproceedings{Khattar2026jan,
- author = {Khattar, Vanshaj and Choudhury, Moumita and Rashid, Md Rafi Ur 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}},
- booktitle = {AAAI Workshop on Trust and Control in Agentic AI},
- year = 2026,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-020}
- }
- Fujihashi, T., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Implicit Neural Compression", Springer Nature, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-15931-1, Vol. 2813, pp. 60-69, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-022 PDF- @article{Fujihashi2026jan,
- author = {Fujihashi, Takuya and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Quantum Implicit Neural Compression}},
- journal = {Springer Nature},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 2813,
- pages = {60--69},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1007/978-3-032-15931-1},
- issn = {1865-0937},
- isbn = {978-3-032-15931-1},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-022}
- }
- 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, January 2026.
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,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-018}
- }
- Rashid, M.R.U., Dasu, V.A., Wang, Y., Tan, G.G., Mehnaz, S., "Chain-of-Thought Driven Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-017 PDF- @inproceedings{Rashid2026jan,
- author = {Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Dasu, Vishnu Asutosh and Wang, Ye and Tan, G. Gary and Mehnaz, Shagufta},
- title = {{Chain-of-Thought Driven Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models}},
- booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
- year = 2026,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-017}
- }
- Yataka, R., Wang, P., Boufounos, P.T., Takahashi, R., "Indoor Multi-View Radar Object Detection via 3D Bounding Box Diffusion", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-019 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Yataka2026jan,
- author = {Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Boufounos, Petros T. and Takahashi, Ryuhei},
- title = {{Indoor Multi-View Radar Object Detection via 3D Bounding Box Diffusion}},
- booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
- year = 2026,
- month = jan,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-019}
- }
- Jeon, C.-B., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3633567, Vol. 6, pp. 1179-1192, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-012 PDF- @article{Jeon2026jan,
- author = {Jeon, Chang-Bin and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Embracing Cacophony: Explaining and Improving Random Mixing in Music Source Separation}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {1179--1192},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3633567},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-012}
- }
- Wilkinghoff, K., Yang, H., Ebbers, J., Germain, F.G., Wichern, G., Le Roux, J., "Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization", IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3629236, Vol. 33, pp. 4642-4652, January 2026.
BibTeX TR2026-010 PDF Software- @article{Wilkinghoff2026jan,
- author = {Wilkinghoff, Kevin and Yang, Haici and Ebbers, Janek and Germain, François G and Wichern, Gordon and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Local Density-Based Anomaly Score Normalization for Domain Generalization}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing},
- year = 2026,
- volume = 33,
- pages = {4642--4652},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/TASLPRO.2025.3629236},
- issn = {2998-4173},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-010}
- }
- 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", Computer Speech & Language, DOI: 10.1016/j.csl.2025.101901, Vol. 97, pp. 101901, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-008 PDF- @article{Cornell2025dec,
- 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 = {Computer Speech \& Language},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 97,
- pages = 101901,
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1016/j.csl.2025.101901},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-008}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "RANF: Neural Field-Based HRTF Spatial Upsampling with Retrieval Augmentation and Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3640517, Vol. 7, pp. 32-41, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-007 PDF Software- @article{Masuyama2025dec,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{RANF: Neural Field-Based HRTF Spatial Upsampling with Retrieval Augmentation and Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 7,
- pages = {32--41},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3640517},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-007}
- }
- Masuyama, Y., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Ick, C., Le Roux, J., "SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3627073, Vol. 6, pp. 1169-1178, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-009 PDF- @article{Masuyama2025dec2,
- author = {Masuyama, Yoshiki and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Ick, Christopher and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{SuDaField: Subject- and Dataset-Aware Neural Field for HRTF Modeling}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {1169--1178},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3627073},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-009}
- }
- Kato, S., Yataka, R., Wang, P., Miraldo, P., Fujihashi, T., Boufounos, P.T., "RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-006 PDF Software- @inproceedings{Kato2025dec,
- author = {Kato, Sorachi and Yataka, Ryoma and Wang, Pu and Miraldo, Pedro and Fujihashi, Takuya and Boufounos, Petros T.},
- title = {{RAPTR: Radar-based 3D Pose Estimation using Transformer}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-006}
- }
- Hutchinson, S., Vinod, A.P., Germain, F.G., Di Cairano, S., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Quantile-SMPC for Grid-Interactive Buildings with Multivariate Temporal Fusion Transformers", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on UrbanAI, December 2025.
BibTeX TR2026-001 PDF- @inproceedings{Hutchinson2025dec,
- author = {{{Hutchinson, Spencer and Vinod, Abraham P. and Germain, François G and Di Cairano, Stefano and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush}}},
- title = {{{Quantile-SMPC for Grid-Interactive Buildings with Multivariate Temporal Fusion Transformers}}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Workshop on UrbanAI},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2026-001}
- }
- Xie, X., Mowlavi, S., Benosman, M., "Smooth and Sparse Latent Dynamics in Operator Learning with Jerk Regularization", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (ML4PS), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-166 PDF- @inproceedings{Xie2025dec,
- author = {{{Xie, Xiaoyu and Mowlavi, Saviz and Benosman, Mouhacine}}},
- title = {{{Smooth and Sparse Latent Dynamics in Operator Learning with Jerk Regularization}}},
- booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop on Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences (ML4PS)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-166}
- }
- Hori, C., Masuyama, Y., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM", IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU), December 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-167 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2025dec,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Robot Confirmation Generation and Action Planning Using Long-context Q-Former Integrated with Multimodal LLM}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Workshop on Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding (ASRU)},
- year = 2025,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-167}
- }
- Xiang, X., Peng, K.-C., Lohit, S., Jones, M.J., Zhang, J., "Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes", British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), November 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-162 PDF Video Data Presentation- @inproceedings{Xiang2025nov,
- author = {{{Xiang, Xinhao and Peng, Kuan-Chuan and Lohit, Suhas and Jones, Michael J. and Zhang, Jiawei}}},
- title = {{{Towards Open-Vocabulary Multimodal 3D Object Detection with Attributes}}},
- booktitle = {British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = nov,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-162}
- }