@inproceedings{liu-etal-2026-saliency, title = "From Saliency to Discriminability: Rank-Preserving Visual Token Pruning for {VLM} Rerankers", author = "Liu, Siyi and Yang, Hanjun and Zhang, Chenchen and Zhu, Xiaorong and Zuo, Xinyu and Duan, Lisheng and Liang, Haijin and Ma, Jin and Pu, Junfu and Zhang, Yongqi", 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.1936/", pages = "44052--44071", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }