@inproceedings{gao-etal-2026-skim,
    title = "Skim and Skip: Hierarchical Adaptive Inference for Efficient Multimodal Retrieval",
    author = "Gao, Meng  and
      Zhang, Yizhen  and
      Ding, Yang  and
      Dai, Ziqi  and
      Zhang, Shuoshuo  and
      Wang, Junjie  and
      Wu, Taiqiang  and
      Shi, Chufan  and
      Ji, Lei  and
      Jiao, Jian  and
      Zhang, Linfeng  and
      Gong, Yeyun  and
      Yang, Yujiu",
    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.1927/",
    pages = "43873--43890",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}