@inproceedings{chen-etal-2026-warm,
    title = "Warm Up with a Rubric, Then Merge: Decoupling Grounding Gains from Reasoning Costs in Vision-Language Models",
    author = "Chen, Jingfan  and
      Wang, Lin  and
      Su, Jingran  and
      Qing, Li",
    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.2148/",
    pages = "48839--48855",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0"
}