@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-queries,
    title = "When Queries Crowd: Diagnosing and Improving Spread-Out Regularization for Text Embeddings",
    author = "Zhou, Zeqi  and
      Zeng, Qingcheng  and
      Yang, Rui  and
      Liu, Jiarui  and
      Qi, Heli  and
      Yu, Puxuan  and
      Xuan, Weihao  and
      Yokoya, Naoto",
    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.1585/",
    pages = "36051--36070",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}