- 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}
- }
- Dai, M., Lu, Z., Li, N., Wang, Y., "Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning", European Control Conference (ECC), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-092 PDF- @inproceedings{Dai2025jun,
- author = {Dai, Min and Lu, Zehui and Li, Na and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{Enhanced Agility and Safety in Mobile Manipulators through Centroidal Momentum-Based Motion Planning}},
- booktitle = {European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-092}
- }
- Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", ICAD, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-095 PDF- @inproceedings{Wang2025jun2,
- author = {Wang, Ruhan and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning}},
- booktitle = {ICAD},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-095}
- }
- Lai, Y.-H., Ebbers, J., Wang, Y.-C.F., Germain, F.G., Jones, M.J., Chatterjee, M., "UWAV: Uncertainty-weighted Weakly-supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-072 PDF- @inproceedings{Lai2025jun,
- author = {Lai, Yung-Hsuan and Ebbers, Janek and Wang, Yu-Chiang Frank and Germain, François G and Jones, Michael J. and Chatterjee, Moitreya},
- title = {{UWAV: Uncertainty-weighted Weakly-supervised Audio-Visual Video Parsing}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-072}
- }
- Chen, X., Liu, J., Wang, Y., Brand, M., Wang, P., Koike-Akino, T., "TuneComp: Joint Fine-Tuning and Compression for Large Foundation Models", IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-079 PDF- @inproceedings{Chen2025jun,
- author = {Chen, Xiangyu and Liu, Jing and Wang, Ye and Brand, Matthew and Wang, Pu and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{TuneComp: Joint Fine-Tuning and Compression for Large Foundation Models}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) workshop on Efficient and On-Device Generation},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-079}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Lu, K., Ma, C., Hori, C., Romeres, D., "KitchenVLA: Iterative Vision-Language Corrections for Robotic Execution of Human Tasks", IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics (SafeLVMs@ICRA), May 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-068 PDF- @inproceedings{Lu2025may,
- author = {Lu, Kai and Ma, Chenyang and Hori, Chiori and Romeres, Diego},
- title = {{KitchenVLA: Iterative Vision-Language Corrections for Robotic Execution of Human Tasks}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Workshop on Safely Leveraging Vision-Language Foundation Models in Robotics (SafeLVMs@ICRA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-068}
- }
- Rashid, M.R.U., Dasu, V.A., Wang, Y., Tan, G.G., Mehnaz, S., "Trust Me, I Can Handle It: Self-Generated Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models", arXiv, May 2025.
BibTeX arXiv- @article{Rashid2025may,
- author = {Rashid, Md Rafi Ur and Dasu, Vishnu Asutosh and Wang, Ye and Tan, G. Gary and Mehnaz, Shagufta},
- title = {{Trust Me, I Can Handle It: Self-Generated Adversarial Scenario Extrapolation for Robust Language Models}},
- journal = {arXiv},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2505.17089}
- }
- Ji, D.-Y., Wang, B., Inoue, H., Kanemaru, M., "Motor Fault Detection with a Hybrid Physics-based and Data-Driven Method", IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC), May 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-062 PDF- @inproceedings{Ji2025may,
- author = {Ji, Dai-Yan and Wang, Bingnan and Inoue, Hiroshi and Kanemaru, Makoto},
- title = {{Motor Fault Detection with a Hybrid Physics-based and Data-Driven Method}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = may,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-062}
- }
- Hori, C., Kambara, M., Sugiura, K., Ota, K., Khurana, S., Jain, S., Corcodel, R., Jha, D.K., Romeres, D., Le Roux, J., "Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal LLM Trained from Human Demonstration Videos", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887717, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-034 PDF- @inproceedings{Hori2025mar,
- author = {Hori, Chiori and Kambara, Motonari and Sugiura, Komei and Ota, Kei and Khurana, Sameer and Jain, Siddarth and Corcodel, Radu and Jha, Devesh K. and Romeres, Diego and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Interactive Robot Action Replanning using Multimodal {LLM} Trained from Human Demonstration Videos}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
- year = 2025,
- month = mar,
- doi = {10.1109/ICASSP49660.2025.10887717},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-034}
- }
- Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Wang, Y., Mineyuki, T., Zhan, S., Tang, W.-T., Paulson, J.A., Deshpande, V.M., Bortoff, S.A., Laughman, C.R., "Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation", Building Simulation, April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-043 PDF- @article{Chakrabarty2025apr,
- author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Wang, Ye and Mineyuki, Takuma and Zhan, Sicheng and Tang, Wei-Ting and Paulson, Joel A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Bortoff, Scott A. and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Time-Series Generative Networks for Synthesizing Realistic Scenarios in Occupant-Centric Building Simulation}},
- journal = {Building Simulation},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-043}
- }
- Ick, C., Wichern, G., Masuyama, Y., Germain, F.G., Le Roux, J., "Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA), April 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-045 PDF- @inproceedings{Ick2025apr,
- author = {Ick, Christopher and Wichern, Gordon and Masuyama, Yoshiki and Germain, François G and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{Data Augmentation Using Neural Acoustic Fields With Retrieval-Augmented Pre-training}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Satellite Workshop on Generative Data Augmentation for Real-World Signal Processing Applications (GenDA)},
- year = 2025,
- month = apr,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-045}
- }
- Wang, R., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning", AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, March 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-025 PDF- @inproceedings{Wang2025mar,
- author = {Wang, Ruhan and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Quantum Diffusion Models for Few-Shot Learning}},
- booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
- year = 2025,
- month = mar,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-025}
- }
- Vinod, A.P., Safaoui, S., Summers, T., Yoshikawa, N., Di Cairano, S., "Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3433229, Vol. 32, No. 6, pp. 2492-2499, January 2025.
BibTeX TR2024-136 PDF- @article{Vinod2025jan,
- author = {Vinod, Abraham P. and Safaoui, Sleiman and Summers, Tyler and Yoshikawa, Nobuyuki and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Decentralized, Safe, Multi-agent Motion Planning for Drones Under Uncertainty via Filtered Reinforcement Learning}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 32,
- number = 6,
- pages = {2492--2499},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3433229},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-136}
- }
- Koo, J., Wichern, G., Germain, F.G., Khurana, S., Le Roux, J., "SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers", IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, DOI: 10.1109/OJSP.2025.3534686, Vol. 6, pp. 266-275, January 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-012 PDF Software- @article{Koo2025jan,
- author = {Koo, Junghyun and Wichern, Gordon and Germain, François G and Khurana, Sameer and {Le Roux}, Jonathan},
- title = {{SMITIN: Self-Monitored Inference-Time INtervention for Generative Music Transformers}},
- journal = {IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing},
- year = 2025,
- volume = 6,
- pages = {266--275},
- month = jan,
- doi = {10.1109/OJSP.2025.3534686},
- issn = {2644-1322},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-012}
- }
- Lu, Z., Zhang, T., Wang, Y., "Torque Constraint Modeling and Reference Shaping for Servo Systems", IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), DOI: 10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3509495, Vol. 8, pp. 2637-2642, December 2024.
BibTeX TR2025-006 PDF- @article{Lu2024dec2,
- author = {Lu, Zehui and Zhang, Tianpeng and Wang, Yebin},
- title = {{Torque Constraint Modeling and Reference Shaping for Servo Systems}},
- journal = {IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS)},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 8,
- pages = {2637--2642},
- month = dec,
- doi = {10.1109/LCSYS.2024.3509495},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-006}
- }
- Bimbraw, K., Wang, Y., Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., "GPT Sonograpy: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via VLM", Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-175 PDF Presentation- @inproceedings{Bimbraw2024dec,
- author = {Bimbraw, Keshav and Wang, Ye and Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{GPT Sonograpy: Hand Gesture Decoding from Forearm Ultrasound Images via VLM}},
- booktitle = {Advancements In Medical Foundation Models: Explainability, Robustness, Security, and Beyond Workshop at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
- year = 2024,
- month = dec,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-175}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Sun, H., Kosanic, M., Kawano, S., Raghunathan, A., Kitamura, S., Takaguchi, Y., "Proactive Sequential Phase Swapping Scheduling for Distribution Systems with a Finite Horizon", IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference, DOI: 10.1109/APPEEC61255.2024.10922369, October 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-149 PDF- @inproceedings{Sun2024oct,
- author = {Sun, Hongbo and Kosanic, Miroslav and Kawano, Shunsuke and Raghunathan, Arvind and Kitamura, Shoichi and Takaguchi, Yusuke},
- title = {{Proactive Sequential Phase Swapping Scheduling for Distribution Systems with a Finite Horizon}},
- booktitle = {IEEE PES Asia-Pacific Power and Energy Engineering Conference},
- year = 2024,
- month = oct,
- doi = {10.1109/APPEEC61255.2024.10922369},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-149}
- }
- Vanfretti, L., Laughman, C.R., Chakrabarty, A., "Integrating Generative Machine Learning Models and Physics-Based Models for Building Energy Simulation", American Modelica Conference, October 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-140 PDF- @inproceedings{Vanfretti2024oct,
- author = {Vanfretti, Luigi and Laughman, Christopher R. and Chakrabarty, Ankush},
- title = {{Integrating Generative Machine Learning Models and Physics-Based Models for Building Energy Simulation}},
- booktitle = {American Modelica Conference},
- year = 2024,
- month = oct,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-140}
- }
- Kojima, K., Koike-Akino, T., "Photonics × Machine Learning", FIOLS, September 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-154 PDF- @inproceedings{Kojima2024sep,
- author = {Kojima, Keisuke and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki},
- title = {{Photonics × Machine Learning}},
- booktitle = {FIOLS},
- year = 2024,
- month = sep,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-154}
- }
- 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}
- }
- Quirynen, R., Safaoui, S., Di Cairano, S., "Real-time Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming for Vehicle Decision Making and Motion Planning", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2024.3449703, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 77-91, September 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-123 PDF- @article{Quirynen2024sep,
- author = {Quirynen, Rien and Safaoui, Sleiman and {Di Cairano}, Stefano},
- title = {{Real-time Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming for Vehicle Decision Making and Motion Planning}},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 33,
- number = 1,
- pages = {77--91},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.1109/TCST.2024.3449703},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-123}
- }
- Roque, P., Miraldo, P., Dimarogonas, D., "Multi-Agent Formation Control using Epipolar Constraints", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2024.3444690, Vol. 9, No. 12, pp. 11002-11009, September 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-147 PDF- @article{Roque2024sep,
- author = {Roque, Pedro and Miraldo, Pedro and Dimarogonas, Dimos},
- title = {{Multi-Agent Formation Control using Epipolar Constraints}},
- journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
- year = 2024,
- volume = 9,
- number = 12,
- pages = {11002--11009},
- month = sep,
- doi = {10.1109/LRA.2024.3444690},
- issn = {2377-3766},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-147}
- }
- Chakrabarty, A., Vanfretti, L., Bortoff, S.A., Deshpande, V.M., Wang, Y., Paulson, J.A., Zhan, S., Laughman, C.R., "Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks", IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024, DOI: 10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666585, August 2024.
BibTeX TR2024-113 PDF- @inproceedings{Chakrabarty2024aug,
- author = {Chakrabarty, Ankush and Vanfretti, Luigi and Bortoff, Scott A. and Deshpande, Vedang M. and Wang, Ye and Paulson, Joel A. and Zhan, Sicheng and Laughman, Christopher R.},
- title = {{Assessing Building Control Performance Using Physics-Based Simulation Models and Deep Generative Networks}},
- booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) 2024},
- year = 2024,
- month = aug,
- doi = {10.1109/CCTA60707.2024.10666585},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2024-113}
- }