@inproceedings{li-etal-2026-retrieval-heads, title = "Can Retrieval Heads See Images? Multimodal Retrieval Heads in Long-Context Vision-Language Models", author = "Li, Aaron Branson Cigres and Wang, Zhaowei and Zhao, Yu and Du, Yiming and Li, Haobo and Ren, Xiyu and Wong, Ginny and See, Simon and Luo, Lishu and Duan, Haodong and Minervini, Pasquale and Song, Yangqiu", 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.1264/", pages = "28801--28818", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }