@inproceedings{zhou-etal-2026-mr2, title = "{MR}$^2$-Bench: Going Beyond Matching to Reasoning in Multimodal Retrieval", author = "Zhou, Junjie and Liu, Ze and Xiong, Lei and Yao, Jin-Ge and Wang, Yueze and Xiao, Shitao and Li, Chaofan and Yuan, Huaying and Lin, Fenfen and Chen, Miguel Hu and Dou, Zhicheng and Bao, Siqi and Lian, Defu and Xiong, Yongping and Liu, Zheng", 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.538/", pages = "12386--12413", ISBN = "979-8-89176-459-0" }