@inproceedings{khanmohammadi-etal-2026-grounded,
    title = "Grounded or Guessing? {LVLM} Confidence Estimation via Blind-Image Contrastive Ranking",
    author = "Khanmohammadi, Reza  and
      Miahi, Erfan  and
      Kaur, Simerjot  and
      Smiley, Charese  and
      Brugere, Ivan  and
      Thind, Kundan S  and
      Ghassemi, Mohammad M.",
    editor = "Zhang, Yue  and
      Xu, Ruifeng  and
      Purwarianti, Ayu  and
      Rong, Tong  and
      Suzuki, Jun",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 5th Conference of the {A}sia-Pacific Chapter of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = nov,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Hengqin, China",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.aacl-long.210/",
    pages = "4645--4721",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2"
}