@inproceedings{zeng-etal-2026-illusion, title = "The Illusion of Expertise: Narrow Finetuning Induces Persistent Domain Priors in Vision-Language Models", author = "Zeng, Qinglin and Zhang, Jusheng and Huang, Jiangqi and Liu, Ningyuan and Xu, Luozhang and Wang, Wenhao and Wang, Keze", 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.1668/", pages = "37926--37947", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }