@inproceedings{yang-etal-2026-mirage,
    title = "The Mirage of Calibrated Confidence: Trajectory-Independence of Verbalized Confidence in Vision-Language Models",
    author = "Yang, Jisoo  and
      Han, Jaeho  and
      Pham, Trung X.  and
      Kim, Junyeong",
    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.1506/",
    pages = "34404--34423",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}