- 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), Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord, Eds., July 2025, pp. 705-727.
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,
- editor = {Ofir Arviv, Miruna Clinciu, Kaustubh Dhole, Rotem Dror, Sebastian Gehrmann, Eliya Habba, Itay Itzhak, Simon Mille, Yotam Perlitz, Enrico Santus, João Sedoc, Michal Shmueli Scheuer, Gabriel Stanovsky, Oyvind Tafjord},
- pages = {705--727},
- month = jul,
- publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
- isbn = {979-8-89176-261-9},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-114}
- }
- Liu, J., Koike-Akino, T., Wang, P., Brand, M., Parsons, K., Wang, Y., "LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models" in Enhancing LLM Performance Efficacy, Fine-Tuning, and Inference Techniques, Passban, P. and Way, A. and Rezagholizadeh, M., Eds., DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-85747-8_5, pp. 67-81, Springer, July 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-130 PDF- @incollection{Liu2025sep,
- author = {Liu, Jing and Koike-Akino, Toshiaki and Wang, Pu and Brand, Matthew and Parsons, Kieran and Wang, Ye},
- title = {{LoDA: Low-Dimensional Adaptation of Large Language Models}},
- booktitle = {Enhancing LLM Performance Efficacy, Fine-Tuning, and Inference Techniques},
- year = 2025,
- editor = {Passban, P. and Way, A. and Rezagholizadeh, M.},
- pages = {67--81},
- month = sep,
- publisher = {Springer},
- doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-85747-8_5},
- isbn = {978-3-031-85746-1},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-130}
- }
- Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Sakaguchi, N., Wang, P., Orlik, P.V., "Modeling Multipath TCP Over Heterogeneous WiFi and 5G Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-084 PDF- @inproceedings{Guo2025jun,
- author = {Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Wang, Pu and Orlik, Philip V.},
- title = {{Modeling Multipath TCP Over Heterogeneous WiFi and 5G Networks}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-084}
- }
- Hazarika, A., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Orlik, P.V., Rahmati, M., "AgriNex: Next-Gen Smart Agriculture with LLM-Integrated UAV-IoT Solutions", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-081 PDF- @inproceedings{Hazarika2025jun,
- author = {Hazarika, Ananya and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V. and Rahmati, Mehdi},
- title = {{AgriNex: Next-Gen Smart Agriculture with LLM-Integrated UAV-IoT Solutions}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-081}
- }
- Xiong, G., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Orlik, P.V., Li, J., "UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC), June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-082 PDF- @inproceedings{Xiong2025jun,
- author = {Xiong, Guojun and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Orlik, Philip V. and Li, Jian},
- title = {{UAV Aided Smart Agriculture Networks: A Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Approach}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC)},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-082}
- }
- Das, S., Guo, J., Parsons, K., Nagai, Y., Sumi, T., Sakaguchi, N., Orlik, P.V., Kalafatis, S., "Learning Based Scheduling and Adaptive Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC", IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) Workshop, June 2025.
BibTeX TR2025-083 PDF- @inproceedings{Das2025jun,
- author = {Das, Souryendu and Guo, Jianlin and Parsons, Kieran and Nagai, Yukimasa and Sumi, Takenori and Sakaguchi, Naotaka and Orlik, Philip V. and Kalafatis, Stavros},
- title = {{Learning Based Scheduling and Adaptive Congestion Control for Multipath QUIC}},
- booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC) Workshop},
- year = 2025,
- month = jun,
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2025-083}
- }
- 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}
- }
- 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}
- }