@inproceedings{zhu-gligoric-2026-paying, title = "Paying for Too Many Tokens? Valid and Cost-Efficient Multimodal {LLM} Annotation with Simple Heuristics", author = "Zhu, Zhixi and Gligori{\'c}, Kristina", 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.29/", pages = "620--634", ISBN = "979-8-89176-439-2" }