@inproceedings{sato-etal-2026-modality,
    title = "When Modality Gap Reduction Fails: Prediction-Level Hubness in {CLIP}",
    author = "Sato, Shota  and
      Kiyama, Hajime  and
      Hirasawa, Tosho  and
      Komachi, Mamoru",
    editor = "Lee, Hung-Yi  and
      Dev, Sunipa  and
      Li, Jessy  and
      Elliott, Desmond",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = oct,
    year = "2026",
    address = "Budapest, Hungary",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.emnlp-main.1002/",
    doi = "10.18653/2026.emnlp-main.1002",
    pages = "23060--23083",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}