@inproceedings{zhang-etal-2026-unmasking,
    title = "Unmasking Superficial Honesty: Mechanistic Head-Driven Activation Steering for Sycophancy-Free Medical {VLM}s",
    author = "Zhang, Mengliang  and
      Challa, Prajwal  and
      Gao, Wentao",
    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.1732/",
    pages = "39531--39544",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}